The Battle of Evesham 760th Anniversary Re-enactment and Festival

Name: The Battle of Evesham 760th Anniversary Re-enactment and Festival
Start: 2025-08-01T12:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-08-03T16:00:00+01:00
Location: Evesham Crown Meadow

Schedule

Fri, 01 Aug, 2025 at 12:00 pm to Sun, 03 Aug, 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Evesham Crown Meadow | Evesham, EN

THE BATTLE OF EVESHAM 2025
760th Anniversary Festival - 3 days of medieval mayhem
🛡 NEW Tourney Arena for demonstrations and entertainment
🛡 NEW c13th Joust-Tourney on Friday
🛡 NEW Kenilworth Castle built on the Battle Arena
🛡 NEW Siege engine warfare attacking and defending the castle
🛡 NEW Presentation pavilion, historic academic and fiction talks
🛡 NEW Park and Ride/Stride
🛡 NEW Wargamers Barons War Festival in the Town Centre
🛡 900+ re-enactors, soldiers, archers & living history performers
🛡 20+ Knights on war-horses
🛡 Mass archery demonstrations
🛡 Authors talks and book signings
🛡 55+ medieval crafts traders
🛡 55+ modern artisan crafts traders
🛡 30+ food and drink stalls
🛡 GRAND PARADE Saturday 10am.
THIRTEENTH CENTURY JOUST/TOURNEE ON FRIDAY
Watch close-up in the Tourney Arena the, first style of medieval tourney, which developed into the jousts we see in Hollywood Films.
GRAND PARADE ON SATURDAY
All performers, Knights on their war horses will be march though the streets of Evesham in full armour and medieval costume, joined by musicians, dancers and our regional Mayors. All in a fantastic parade of colour and noise.
BATTLE REENACTMENTS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
Including all soldiers, archers and mounted Knights, fighting to the death in medieval mayhem.
FREE TO ENTER (suggested donation £2 each)
Come and enjoy a spectacular weekend of medieval action and education in the heart of Evesham and next to the Avon, a riverside Market Town on the edge of the Cotswolds with a big part to play in history.
Including are full-on battle re-enactments, Living History camp displays, trade stalls catering for medieval and modern tastes, beer tent and a Grand Parade through the streets of Evesham.
The festival commemorates the defeat of Simon de Montfort in 1265, but celebrates the survival of his ‘Representative Parliament’ now we call this the House of Commons.
5,000 men died on Greenhill and in the streets of Evesham, either defending the Magna Carta or the restoration of the Monarchy, leading to the greatest shift in land ownership since the Norman Invasion.