As you might expect, these events may look and feel a little different this year to comply with public health guidance in place at the time. Keeping people safe is our top priority and we will provide more information about the measures we will put in place in Bishop Auckland shortly, as well as announcing the celebrity chef line-up and information about the traders and entertainment.

The festival will take place in the October dateline for this year only and plans to return to its spring date for 2022. The festival will take place across Bishop Auckland Market place and also take in North Bond Gate and like in 2019 also utilises the new car park space for more traders and entertainment. The Festival will also have workshops and things to see in Bishop Auckland Town Hall.  This year we are delighted to announce that our great guest names will be FREE for visitors to see in our large outdoor Cookery Theatre which will be located in the new Car Park space alongside traders off North Bondgate.

We will continue to review the government guidance and while we hope we can run the this year’s events with few alterations, we will put plans in place to keep our visitors, residents, traders, and staff, safe.  Following the success of Seaham Food Festival we will be announcing more plans soon including all details for our Park & Ride.