Best for unique gifts:

Made in Cornwall Christmas Fair, Truro, 26^th – 30^th November

Over 100 artisans will have stalls at this much celebrated fair, where everything has been grown or made exclusively in Cornwall. This is a great event to buy something you’ll definitely not find on the high street.

Open 10 am – 9pm Wednesday 26^th, 10am – 5pm Thursday 27^th to Saturday 29^th and 10.30am to 4.30pm Sunday 30^th.

Best for foodies:

Padstow Christmas Festival, Padstow, 1^st – 4^th December

With a market and demonstrations, this is a festival with a focus on food. Ideal for picking up handy hints for cooking over the festive season, there will be demonstrations from local chefs such as Rick Stein, Nathan Outlaw, Paul Ainsworth, Michael Caines and Angela Hartnett. It’s also perfect for picking up a gift for the foodie in your life with stalls selling everything from artisan choccies to handmade figgy puddings.

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Best for children:

Christmas at Trengwainton Garden, near Penzance, 2^nd - 3^rd December

Not strictly a fair but very Christmassy, this is a lovely event at the National Trusts’ Trengwainton Garden which is usually closed but opens for two nights and begins with a Lantern Walk (with flaming bamboo torches) through the gardens on both nights. The walk ends in a beautiful clearing bedecked with fairy lights where you’ll find Father Christmas (in traditional green), a hog roast and many other things to eat and drink. Kiddies can have a go at making a lantern to take home with them.

5.30pm – 8.30pm on both nights (the Lantern Walk is at 5.30pm)

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Best for a traditional Cornish Christmas experience:

Fowey Christmas Market, 9^th – 11^th December

This gorgeous seaside town lights up with Christmas cheer over this weekend, with proceedings kicking off on Friday at 5pm with Father Christmas sailing into town by tug (well, this is Cornwall!), a lantern parade and the Christmas lights being lit. There will be plenty of stalls, goodies to eat, a Victorian market and local choirs singing their hearts out. The unique, independent shops which line the narrow streets will be open late, so you can bag yourself a Christmas present or two as well. 

 5.30pm – 8.30pm Friday 9^th and all day Saturday 10^th and Sunday 11^th.

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