The realm’s most magnificent Medieval Festival. In a midsummer meadow, the hazy light casts long, sinuous shadows. People congregate to wait and watch, munching on roasted hog and ale while doing so. The boom of hooves and the frantic snorting of horses suddenly silences the laughing and talk. The scream of war cries and the clashing of swords on swords pierce the air.
The Loxwood Joust is the UK’s most dazzling mediaeval festival. The weekend spectacle includes full-contact jousting twice a day, as well as other daring weapons, archery, and cannon fire demonstrations as armoured knights prepare for thundering combat. Wander around the Medieval Meadow’s Living History Village, where residents live and work as they would have in the Middle Ages. In the Medieval Marketplace, where shopkeepers and hawkers compete for your attention while roving minstrels, dancing troupes, and a court jester amuse the masses throughout the day, peruse their traditional products.
The children’s realm – a festival inside a festival – is a special place for the youngest members of our group. The mediaeval groat is the money there, and kids may try their hand at it. Have-a- Archery, Face and Wound Painting, Pelt The Peasant, Sword School, and The Bouncy Castle are some of the activities available. Meet larger-than-life characters from the Middle Ages in the mediaeval learning zones, which feature vivid storytelling from the Medieval Housewife with tales of a mediaeval wife’s life, the Executioner, who will explain the gruesome details of mediaeval torture – a subject not for the faint of heart, and the Copper Pot, where the mediaeval chef will guide you through the strange and wonderful kitchen of the Middle Ages.
If you need to relax after all of the excitement, let the Mediaeval Baebes, or lovely maidens, soothe your tired spirits and take you to a storybook realm with their lyrical songs of chivalry, love, and sorrow.
