DEVON COUNTY SHOW TO CELEBRATE 125TH SHOW WITH THRILLING LINE UP

Did you know that the Devon County Show 2020 will be our 125^th Show?

Here in the Devon County Show offices, we’re positively brimming with ideas (of which we need at the very least 125) to mark this momentous milestone in the Devon County Agricultural Association’s history. 

The Main Arena will offer an action-packed programme.   Positioned in the centre of the showground, visitors to the Main Arena will be treated to a 360 degree view of the Show’s star attraction – The  Dancing Diggers – a collection of JCB Diggers and Robot Skidsters which will perform a series of daredevil antics, formation dancing, as well as a load of laughs during their twice daily performances (and if you need further persuasion, the Devon County Show is the only event in the West Country where you’ll catch them next year).   

Around the showground, visitors can get up close and personal with thousands of animals looking to compete at Devon County Show in the first round of nail-biting competitions on the show circuit including the South Devon Herd Book Society’s National Show.   Alpacas, cows (including a hundred South Devon’s), sheep, pigs and goats to name but a few, will undoubtedly welcome a gentle stroke and some words of encouragement before their classes.

We are curating our most ambitious Food & Drink line-up ever to enable foodies to indulge their tastebuds in the most tempting food and drink available in the West Country.  Whether you’re looking for a quick snack on the hoof, a Devon Cream Tea drenched in delicious Devon Clotted Cream and fruit jam, or a sea food platter, Devon County Show 2020 is gearing up to cater to your every whim. 

As gardens start to come to life after a long hard winter, we’ll be fulfilling the dreams of hundreds of hopeful horticulturalists with ideas for planting perfection. Look out too for the Gardening Roadshow, hosted by gardening writer and broadcaster Martin Fish and which will offer instructional seminars and Q and As daily in the crafts and garden tent – the largest (it’s the size of a full size football pitch) and most frequented marquee on the showground.

Add to this top-class show-jumping, a Premier Dog Show which brings together the Cream of Devon and the rest of the UK’s dogs under one roof, our award-winning Children’s Farm, Heavy Horses and Shetland Pony displays as well as a bee tent which is always buzzing with activity from dawn till dusk and the Devon County Show is on course to be the most compelling date for your diary next May.