There is lots to see and do in November and December in Cornwall and nearby Devon. Look through this wonderful list of festive events as you plan your winter stay at Kernock Cottages. Start to enjoy the festive season and get your Christmas shopping off to a great start. Guests are starting to book these seasonal events.
15 October – 19 February ice rink open at the Eden Project
4 – 6 November NT Buckland Abbey Food and Craft Fair – you will need to book
7 – 18 November NT Cotehele Christmas Garland preparation in the Great Hall 10.30-4pm
18 November Lost Gardens of Helligan – night gardens
19 – 20 November Christmas Artisan Fair Pencarrow House, Bodmin
19 November Plymouth Christmas Show and Lights Switch On
19 November NT Cotehele – Polperro Fishermen’s Choir 11.30am and 12.30pm
19 November Lobster Lollop 2.5k, 5k, 10k Camel Trail run Padstow
23 – 24 November The Eden Project annual Cornish Christmas
24-27 November Christmas Craft Fair Looe 11am – 4pm
25-26 November Truro Made in Cornwall Christmas Fair
29 November – 18 December Present Maker Exhibition, Kingsbridge
1 – 4 December Padstow Christmas Festival
2 – 4 December Fowey Christmas Market
2 December Tavistock Dickensian Evening from 17:00
3 – 4 December Polperro Christmas Market and Lights Switch On
3 December Kingsbridge Celebrates Christmas
3 – 30 December Eden Project Christmas programme
10 December Christmas Market – Quayside Centre, West Looe 13:00 – 15:00
17 – 18 December Olde Father Christmas at Buckland Abbey – ticketed sessions
Open all winter season:
If in Padstow do visit The National Lobster Hatchery, perhaps adopt a lobster this Christmas
Theatre what’s on? Theatre Royal Plymouth including Christmas Pantomime
National Trust
We are fortunate to have several superb National Trust properties within a few miles of Kernock. All look spectacular at Christmas:
Festive lights along the stream to Cotehele Mill decorated in traditional Victorian style and discover how families who lived at Cotehele Mill, celebrated Christmas in those times. Toys to play with, costumes to adorn and craft activities to complete. Magnificent Christmas Garland.
NT Saltram, Plymouth – Book your tickets
25 November – 2 January. Bookings required. ‘Experience the magical, extravagant, and luxurious Georgian style Christmas ball at Saltram House. With brand new rooms being decorated for 2022, there will be festive moments behind every door with that well known sprinkle of Saltram magic’. Christmas family garden trail and garden walks
From Saturday 3rd December 2022. Fully decorated House transformed into an Elizabethan home of feast and festivity: cascade in the abbey, as it descends down the Georgian staircase with over 700 decorations, the Great Barn alight with 100 Christmas trees and an enchanting light display, magical winter forest light display, woodland animal habitat exploration trail outside. Olde Father Christmas, traditionally dressed in all green Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th December, four ticketed sessions will be each day at 11.15am, 12.15pm, 2.00pm and 3.00pm.
