Sunday 14 September (22)
🚂 Steaming Days at The Buckingamshire Railway Centre
Time: 10:30 - 17:00
ℹ️ ABOUT
🐶 DOGS
Well behaved dogs on leads are welcome around the site and on the train. The only area they are not permitted is in the cafe.
🎫 CARERS
Carers are admitted free of charge with the person there caring for but MUST produce proof of status on arrival. If you cannot provide proof of status you will be charged full price.
♿️ WHEELCHAIR USERS
Our site is generally very wheelchair friendly, however, our trains use vintage carriages and their doors are not wide enough for wheelchairs and there are steps to get on. Please call us to discuss your needs before booking on
☎️ Phone: 01296 655720 or email us on 📧 📧📧 Email: office@bucksrailcentre.org
🗓 2025 DATES
▪️Sunday 1st June
▪️Sunday 22nd June
▪️Sunday 29th June
▪️Sunday 20th July
▪️Sunday 7th September
▪️Sunday 14th September
▪️Sunday 28th September
▪️Sunday 5th October
▪️Sunday 19th October
▪️Wednesday 29th October
🎟 TICKETS COST:
▪️Steaming Day - Adult Ticket: £12.50
▪️Steaming Day - Senior Ticket: £11.50
▪️Steaming Day - Child Ticket: £8.50
▪️Steaming Day - Child Ticket (Under 3yrs): Free
▪️Family Ticket (2 adults & 4 children): £36.50
▪️Family Ticket (1 adults & 4 children): £24.00
🎊 The Garden Party 2025 - Ashridge House
Time: 12:00 - 17:00
🤩 WHAT TO EXPECT
This year sees the return of our circus skills, puppet shows, craft activities and dog show….and if that wasn't enough, we've also got face painting, and sand art - not forgetting the Pimms Tent, our 'Shop Local Village', and an impressive array of food stalls, including our amazing cream teas.
🎟 TICKETS COST:
▪️Adult: £8
▪️Child (3-18): £4
▪️Under 3s/Carers: Free
🎫 Prices on the door:
▪️Adult: £10
▪️Child (3-18): £5
▪️Under 3s/Carers: Free
🌳 Stotfold Watermill & Nature Reserve 2025
Time: 12:30 - 17:00
ℹ️ THE MILL
There are three floors to view. We recommend the minimum time would be 15 minutes for each floor. There is a lift in the mill which allows full access to all three floors, there is also a toilet, for disabled visitors.
🌳 THE NATURE RESERVE
The Nature Reserve is open all year round, except 10th-11th May and 4th-5th October 2025. A circular walk takes around 45 minutes.
🐶 ABOUT DOGS
With the exception of guide dogs, we do not allow dogs in the mill. We welcome well behaved dogs in the Nature Reserve and ask that they be kept on leads at all times – many animals and birds breed or feed on the reserve, at or near ground level at all seasons of the year.
🕧 OPENING TIMES
🔸️Mill, Shop and Tea Room: 12:30pm - 5:00pm
🔸️Milling sessions: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
🗓 2025 OPENING DATES
▪️June: 8th, 22nd, 29th
▪️July: 6th, 13th,
(Art Group Summer Exhibition 19th, 20th), 27th
▪️August: 3rd, 10th, 17th, 31st
▪️September: 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th
▪️October: 19th
🅿️ CAR PARK OPENING TIMES:
10.00am to 7.00pm
(or earlier if dusk, dull or rainy)
CONTACT DETAILS
☎️ Telephone: 01462 734541
📧 Email: enquiries@stotfoldmill.com
🕯Queen By Candlelight 2025 - Milton Keynes Theatre
Time: 19:30
🤩 FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY!
🕯 ABOUT
This concert, which has played across the world and most notably at New York’s Carnegie Hall, will feature some of the most iconic songs of all time, including “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “It’s a Kind of Magic”, “We Are The Champions”, “Who Wants to Live Forever” and many more!
🎟 TICKETS COST:
From £32.00. You can book tickets via the event link. The Box Office is open for 90 minutes prior to the performance commencing.
🎶 Bands in the Park 2025 - Riverside, St Neots
Time: 14:30 - 16:30
✨️ WHAT TO KNOW
▪️20 July – Medication Time
▪️27 July – Diamond Country Dance Club
▪️3 August – Caxton Swing
▪️10 August – The Orchard
▪️17 August – The Roxton Press
▪️24 August – Lizzie Reynolds Vocalist
▪️31 August – The Soul Sisters
▪️7 September – Natasha Thompson Quartet
▪️14 September – Caz on Sax
▪️21 September – St Neots Big Band
🌧 IF THE WEATHER ISN'T GREAT
Please note: performances may be cancelled at short notice due to poor weather conditions.
🚂 Riverside Miniature Train - St Neots
Time: 12:00 - 16:00 Price: £1.00
▪️Every Sunday: 12pm - 4pm
▪️Wednesday 30th July: 12pm - 3pm
▪️Wednesday 6th August: 12pm - 3pm
▪️Wednesday 13th August: 12pm - 3pm
▪️Wednesday 20th August: 12pm - 3pm
▪️Wednesday 27th August: 12pm - 3pm
♿️ ACCESSIBILITY
Everyone is welcome. We have Access-i-belle, our accessible carriage, available for people who are unable to sit on our ride on coaches, e.g. for wheelchair users and those with reduced mobility, so everyone can enjoy a ride on the railway.
🐶 DOGS
Small dogs are welcome to travel on the train, but they must be held or able to sit on the carriage. All dogs must be on a lead.
📍 LOCATION
We are located within the Riverside Park in St.Neots, just past the play park.
PE19 7HD near the main car park.
🅿️ PARKING
Parking is free on a Sunday, all other days any chargable.
ℹ️ CONTACT DETAILS
☎️ Phone: 01480 217037
📧 Email: riversideminiaturerailway@gmail.com
🐶💦 Splash Park Fun for Dogs - Bennetts Splash Park, Dunstable
Time: 11:00 - 15:00
So come down, bring your dogs, and let them play, splash, and make a splashy memory!
🗓 2025 DATES
▪️Saturday 13 September
▪️Sunday 14 September
🐶 10 DOGS PER SESSION
▪️11 am to 11.30 am
▪️11.30 am to 12 noon
▪️1 pm to 1.30 pm
▪️1.30 pm to 2 pm
▪️2 pm to 2.30 pm
😌 SESSIONS FOR NERVOUS OR BLIND DOGS ETC
2 sessions for a max of 5 for those with additional needs.
(such as nervous, blind, deaf, etc.)
▪️12 noon to 12.30 pm
▪️2.30 pm to 3 pm
💳 PAY ON THE DAY - £5
Turn up on the day, first come, first served and pay £5 on arrival. There will be wristbands allocated for your designated time.
ℹ️ RULES
Careful monitoring and responsible supervision, with each dog accompanied by their owner or handler, is key to ensuring dogs are socially well-behaved, safe, and interact positively with other dogs.
Any dog who exhibits any sign of aggression or who is not under the voice control of his owner or handler must immediately leave the premises.
🕯Queen by Candlelight at Milton Keynes Theatre
Time: 19:30
ℹ️ ABOUT
This concert, which has played across the world and most notably at New York’s Carnegie Hall, will feature some of the most iconic songs of all time, including “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “It’s a Kind of Magic”, “We Are The Champions”, “Who Wants to Live Forever” and many more!
🎟 TICKET PRICES:
▪️Ranging from £32 - £62 depending on seating location
▪️Treat bundle (bag of sweets or chocolate, soft drink and savoury nibbles £10.50
NOTE: A £3.95 transaction fee is applied to each order
Call our Accessibility Assistance line on 03330 095 399
▪️Please note you will need to register for our Access Membership Scheme to book tickets.
🌳 Shefford Maze 2025 (Hoo Hill Maze)
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
🗓 OPENING DAYS 2025
▪️Sunday 10am-4pm
💷 COST - NO BOOKING REQUIRED, JUST TURN UP
▪️£5 per person
▪️Family of up to 6 people for £20
▪️Under 5 - Free
▪️We now accept cash or card.
🥪 FOOD & DRINK
There are no refreshments for sale on-site, but you are welcome to bring a picnic :)
🐶 DOGS
Sorry, no dogs allowed.
ℹ️ FOR MORE INFO
Any questions, please contact Dan on the mobile below. The website also has more details via the event link. We also cater for private hire.
☎️ Phone: 07539 329039
📧 Email: hoohillmaze@hotmail.com
📍WHERE CAN I FIND YOU?
You can find us on Hitchin Road on the way into Shefford.
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🚘 Billington Car Boot Sale 2025
Time: 08:00 - 13:00
🗓 OPENING TIMES
We are OPEN every Thursday, Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday.
🌧 WEATHER DEPENDANT
Please check our FB page for weather updates via the event link.
🛍 BUYERS
▪️Gates open: 8am
▪️Entry after 8am: £1
▪️Early access for buyers before 8am: £5
🐕🦺 DOGS
Dogs are welcome on a lead.
🚘 SELLERS:
▪️Sellers at 7am
▪️Loyalty cards available at gate
▪️There's no need to book just pull up and sell!
🎫 Cars £8
🎫 Small Vans £10
🎫 Large Vans £12
🎫 Extra Large Vans £14
🎫 Small Trailer £2
🎫 Large Trailer £5
ℹ️ SELLERS INFORMATION
Sellers don't forget to bring spare change on the day! Take rubbish home.
💦 Kids swim for £1 at The Oasis in Bedford
Time: 09:00 - 10:00
🏊♂️ SESSION NAME: Swim for all
🕘 WHAT TIME?
9:00am - 10:00am
🤩 WHAT TO EXPECT
Our Swim for All sessions include a variety of fun features:
💧Small Pool
💧Jets
💧Fountain
💧Small Slide
💧Floats
💧Lazy River
💧Main Pool
🔐 LOCKERS:
Lockers are refundable £1, some are 50p.
♿️ ACCESSIBILITY
Accessible wheel chair available for disabled users to enter the pool.
PRICE
⭐️Adult: £6.75
⭐️Child: £1.00
⭐️1 Adult and 1 Under 3: £6.75
⭐️1 Adult and 2 Under 3: £6.75
▪️PLEASE NOTE:
One competent adult swimmer may supervise up to 2 under 8’s or non swimmers under 16 at a time.
🎟 HOW DO I BOOK?
Via the event link. This will direct to the booking page on the website.
☎️ CALL FOR ENQUIRES: 01234 272100
✨️ The Enchanted Market - Harpur Suite, Bedford
Time: 11:00 - 16:00
✅️ FREE ENTRY
🤩 WHAT TO EXPECT
Bringing magic to the heart of Bedford, our vibrant markets celebrate small and local businesses with handmade treasures, holistic therapies, psychic readers, artisan foods and more.
Support local, shop small, and experience the enchantment!
ℹ️ CONTACT DETAILS
📧 Email: butterflywitchevents@gmail.com
🎊 Triangle Garden Summer Fete 2025 - Hitchin
Time: 11:00 - 15:30
🥤 BRING A CUP
This is a free event – please come along and bring family and friends! Bring your cup not your car! If you bring your own cup you’ll get a discount off all drinks that would otherwise be served in a disposable cup. The event is less than 5 minutes walk from Hitchin rail station and associated bus stops.
🎶 ENTERTAINMENT
There’ll be live music including Hitchin All Stars community choir, Brazilian carnival percussion from Garden City Samba, belly-dancing from Horizons Dance, singer songwriter Yolanda Gabrielle, Portuguese-influenced trio Tritium and last but most definitely not least, the very wonderful Imajica Theatre with their amazing new children’s show – Coral Cove Adventure!
🌸 GARDEN TOURS:
11:30 - 12.15pm & 1.15 - 2pm
There will be garden tours – 11.30am for the community garden and forest garden and 1.15pm for our growing spaces up at the allotments where you can see our new summer house, hugelkultur beds and cut flower plot. Book your place in advance here. Free or £5 donation.
🪨 GARDEN & PAINTED ROCK TRAIL
Do wander round the community nature garden where there’ll be a display of progress on our new mosaic for the centre of the meeting space, and a special painted rocks nature trail for children.
📸 PLUS MORE...
There’s also a nature photography exhibition in the Pavilion curated by Hitchin Camera Club, a family cycle ride finishing at 11am at the Rec!
🛤 Ridgemont Station Heritage Open Day 2025
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
🗓 2025 DATES OPEN 10am - 4pm
▪️Friday 12 September
🧱 EXHIBITION 19/09/25
Bedfordshire Brickworks Exhibition - Friday 19th September 10:00 – 16:00
ℹ️ ABOUT
We tell the story of the Marston Vale Railway Line engineered by Robert Stephenson and opened in 1846. It was the first railway line to reach Bedford and for much of its life serviced the vast clay workings and brickworks at Brogborough and Stewartby; later transporting much of London's rubbish to landfill in the former clay workings. Now a thriving Community Rail Line and at the heart of the East - West Rail Scheme to reconnect Oxford back to Cambridge.
✨️ WHAT TO EXPECT
Andrew Mortlock, London Brick Archivist, will be bringing an extensive collection of archives, photographs and ephemera connected with the brickworks that used to dominate the landscape along the section of the Marston Vale Line between Bedford and Ridgmont and other areas of Bedfordshire. Andrew will also be bringing his collection of company magazines, the Phorpres News, containing records and photographs of London Brick Company workers. Andrew and his family are steeped in London Brick with over 200 years’ service.
👨👩👧👦 FOR KIDS
Family Quiz and Puzzle Booklet available to purchase from the Gift Shop. Symbol Spot Trail for children aged five and over. Collect your free pack from the Gift Shop with a valid train ticket.
🫖 VINTAGE TEA ROOM
Vintage Tea Room in the former Ladies Waiting Room. Outside dining available in the Courtyard.
🚶♂️CIRCULAR WALKS
Variety of circular & linear walks available from the Heritage Centre.
👩🏫 GROUP & SCHOOL PARTIES
Group and school parties welcome all year by prior booking.
ℹ️ GUIDED TOURS
Guided tours personalised to suit the visitor. Booking recommended for Tea Room – call 01525 287120
🎉 Woburn Arts Festival 2025
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
🤩 WHAT TO EXPECT
With live music, picnic on the green, lots of activities for the kids to get involved with and encouraged to be as creative as possible.
✨️ LANTERN MAKING FOR 1ST NOVEMBER
We will also have a lantern making workshop to create large scale lanterns for the whole family or groups of friends to be part of the Lantern Parade on fireworks night on the 1st of November. If you wish to take part in the lantern making workshop, please let us know so we can ensure we have enough materials available.
🫶 ALL FREE
All the activities are free so please come and join in.
🚂 Bedfordshire Steam & Country Fayre 2025 - Shuttleworth
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
🗓 2025 DATES & TIME
▪️Friday 12th September - Sunday 14th September
▪️09:00 - 17:00
ATTRACTIONS
✨️ Steam Engines of all sizes
✨️ Action-Packed Arena
✨️ Working Demonstrations
✨️ Heavy Horses
✨️ Fairground Organs
✨️ Working Crafts
✨️ Craft & Food Halls
✨️ Trade & Market Stalls
✨️ Children’s Area
✨️ Vintage Vehicles
✨️ Old Time Fairground
✨️ Vintage Tractor
✨️ Licenced Bar & Refreshments
🏕 CAMPING AVAILABLE
🎟 TICKETS COST:
▪️Adult: £15.00
▪️Adult: £17.50 (Saturday & Sunday)
▪️Child under 16: FREE
(Plus booking fee)
🅿️ PRIORITY PARKING - £5.00 + £0.25 booking fee
(min £0.75 per order)
+ Booking Fee
