TV presenter headlines local countryside show

Jules Hudson, known to millions as the leading face of popular rural property programme Escape to the Country, is to head up a list of special guests invited to this year’s Hanbury Countryside Show.

The celebrated countryman, who is also an archaeologist and historian, will be at Park Hall Farm on Saturday, July 1st. He’ll be chatting to broadcaster Nina Das Gupta in the show’s Carter Jonas Theatre, about farming, the countryside, and 20 years of television and will also be out and about meeting visitors, exhibitors, competitors, and traders.

Now in its 76th year, Hanbury Countryside Show celebrates the best of rural life in Worcestershire and is a great family day out with livestock displays, delicious food and drink, its own Gardeners’ Question Time, music, and entertainment.

New to the ETG Civil Engineering Main Arena this year is the spectacular Stuntworld International vehicle display team, with a daredevil repertoire of ramp jumps, wheelies, stoppies and quad stunts, and the Two Bar Show-jumping Challenge, guaranteed to have spectators on the edge of their seats.

Also new is the crowd-pleasing Young Farmers

Club West Midlands Area Tug of War, with teams from Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire.

Championing the region’s agricultural roots will be parades of livestock, steam engines, heavy horses and farm machinery and more than 1,000 competitions for horses, sheep, cattle, pigs, goats, farriers, cookery, floral art and gardening. The Fun Dog Show is back too, and there’s a host of shopping opportunities from 200 quality trade stands.

Hanbury is one of the first countryside shows to host the new Miniature Pony Show, and little ones can get up close and personal to furry friends in the new Attwell Farm Park Feature. Other activities for children include toy tractors, amusements, pony rides and have-a-go activities, all set in acres of space.

Tickets are on sale now at www.hanburyshow. co.uk Adult tickets are £15 in advance (£19 on the gate), with free entry for children under 16. There are membership options too.