Events Around Northamptonshire

May is National Walking Month, and 9th May is National Lost Sock Day. Celebrate by looking for the lost socks around the park and taking part in our fun quiz trail. Trail sheets available from the café £2, includes a small prize.

Two artists, Sharon Read and Bethany Murray, are taking a holistic and intuitive approach to a material and sculptural inquiry, in conjunction with their individual investigations of the ‘self’ with questions regarding their own context and existence.

This an exhibition about my love of colour. Every day it lifts my soul to wear or be among bright colours in my garden, nature and my travels. From Scotland to Morocco,I celebrate the colours I see in my sketches and photographs.

Santa Pod Raceway, the home of European drag racing gears up for one of Europe’s most prominent Drag Racing meetings, ‘The Main Event’.

Come along to the UK’s biggest inland waterways festival and see a fantastic display of narrowboats, widebeams and other watercraft. Attend boating seminars and enjoy live music from noon ’til night (plus beer festival) at the 20th Crick Boat Show!

Beetle Drive with Ploughman’s Supper

An Evening Of Jazz with Oundle School Jazz Orchestra in Concert. Enjoy a Complimentary Glass of wine and nibbles Email: dxrcubitt@gmail.com Tel: 07894698688

Winner of the Judge’s Choice in last year’s Annual Summer Show, Katrina Solano presents a series of painterly works which draw inspiration from the land, sea, and sky.

At NN Contemporary we are excited to welcome Dutch Artist Gam Bodenhausen to Northampton for our next exhibition in the NN Gallery. The artist creates drawings and installations, where historical and geological elements from landscapes play imaginatively with fiction and the abstract.

The Power and Beauty of Flowers is a solo exhibition by Northamptonshire professional international selling artist and MA in Fine Art graduate Angela Stanbridge. The visual symbolism and perpetual cycles of life and death of flowers have inspired this exhibition of paintings.

Glen Taylor, winner of the Public Vote in our Annual Summer Show 2018, presents a new series of drawings featuring a variety of subjects and portraiture.

A garden reclaimed from rubble surrounding a new build house (not open). In the past 6 years Pat and Snowy have transformed this space into a wildlife haven. The garden has numerous influences; seaside, woodland and English country gardens. Ponds and waterfalls add to the delights.

Pick up a quiz sheet from the Skylark Café £2 includes a small prize.

Flitter and flutter across the parkland looking for our British butterflies and moths. See how many you can find, discover more about these beautiful winged creatures and pick up your sticker from the Coach House shop. Flitter and flutter across the parkland looking for our British butterflies and moths.

LUNA FLIX Outdoor Cinema is delighted to present the blockbuster movie at a gorgeous new venue, the lawns of Turvey House. Picnic with the Oscar winning portrayal of rock music’s legendary group QUEEN and their charismatic singer - Freddie Mercury. Doors 8.00pm - Film approx: 9.

The 2019 Crick Boat Show, Britain’s biggest inland waterways festival, will showcase the inland waterways industry with over 250 exhibitors from across the canal world.

The adrenaline-fuelled rallycross festival, SpeedMachine, is returning to Silverstone on 25-26 May, following its successful debut last year.

Northampton’s oldest standing building 1100AD & rare round church, Holy Sepulchre is all geared up to receive visitors for the 2019 tourist year.

The garden is situated at the back of an end-of-terrace built in 1893. It is a long narrow garden of 150ft with a range of planting and habitat areas including livestock, greenhouse, outdoor cooking/living area, sun-room and workshops.

Five lovely gardens set in a beautiful ancient village cradled between the gentle hills of south Northamptonshire. The varied gardens, set around traditional village houses look enchanting at this special time of year.

A top quality craft fair held over the Late May Bank Holiday Sunday & Monday Held in marquees, on the lawns of the 16th century walled garden. Exhibitors who are attending have traveled from all over the country, many of whom are demonstrating.

A new operational steam loco arrived at the railway on Thurs 23rd May. ’Eustace Forth’, and 0-4-0 saddle tank, is on loan from the 7063 Loco Group and will be with us for the rest of the year.

Trains on the hour from 11am to 4pm Tickets allow you to ride all day! Free parking Buffet, souvenir shop and toilets all on site Please check website to see if its steam or diesel for the date you wish to attend Why not combine your trip with a lovely walk along the Brampton Valley Way or a visit to one of...

A fantastic day out for all the family – something for everyone! Craft stalls – Antiques stalls – Food Hall – Refreshments – Entertainment – Displays The Shopping Yard in the Edwardian Stable Block will house more than 50 craft and antiques stalls, plus a dedicated Food Hall full of local produce including artisan...