The Hungerford Victorian Extravaganza

Hungerford Victorian Extravaganza
Friday 11th December 2026

The Hungerford Extravaganza is an Annual Event held on the 2nd Friday in December when the town comes together.

In a season awash with pop-up “experiences,” Hungerford’s Victorian Extravaganza remains the real thing: community-made, gloriously nostalgic and now in its 34th year.

From 5pm, the High Street transforms into a living Christmas card — a bustle of stalls and steam engines, the whoosh of a big wheel, and fairground rides that light up young faces.

Entry is free, as it always has been, because this town understands that tradition should be shared, not ticketed.

There’s a magic here you can’t order online.

Santa’s Grotto will be humming, Dancer & Prancer will be clip-clopping past shopfronts, and a farmyard nativity will remind us that Christmas begins not with glitter, but with kindness.

Then there are the Hungerford Christmas Lights — widely regarded as the South’s best — casting their fairy-dust glow over a market town that never forgets how to welcome its neighbours home.