Buckham Fair Pony & Dog Show

About Us

Buckham Fair is a great, old-fashioned, vintage fair that takes place in Beaminster, Dorset, every year in August to raise funds for local charities. This family day out offers all visitors a wide variety of things to see and do, whether you enjoy the funfair, or browsing through some of the best local artisan creations, indulging in some of the finest local foods from the area, taking part in some of our many horse and dog show activities, or simply watching enjoying the spectacles in our main display ring – Buckham Fair has something for everyone.

The Buckham Fair Pony & Dog Show is an annual event held in aid of Julia's House Children' s Hospice - always follow road signs to this location as it can get extremely busy on the day.

Buckham Fair began in 2008. After moving to our farm in 2007 we bought a new plot of land, one of the few pieces of flat land in Beaminster. We realised that the land would be perfect to hold an old-fashioned type Fair, perfect for all the community to have fun and also raise money for local charities. In fact we have since found out that there is an Ancient Charter that allows the holder of the land to hold a Fair each year – even more perfect!

Keen horse, pony and dog lovers we also wanted to include a small pony and dog show. The classes in both have grown year on year and now the schedule is packed full with many and varied events including Police Dog Displays, Heavy Horse Displays, Vintage Cars and Scooters.

The show starts at 9am and includes a massive fun fair, food, beer tent, heavy horse show & vintage cars, stunt dogs from Film & TV and much much more!

This year amongst other rides we will have a Big Wheel, Dodgems, a Carousel and a Helter Skelter. The Trade Stands have also become a large part of the attractions selling mainly local products and the Food Court has grown to include an Inside tented ‘Deli’ area. We do feel very lucky to live in such an unspoilt and beautiful area and it is fantastic to be able to share it with the community once a year.

Beer available until 9pm.