Bampton’s Charter Fair has run since Henry III granted it in 1258, and by the early 1800s it was the biggest sheep fair in the west of England before Exmoor ponies took over the streets. The little market town of stone and thatch sits on the River Batherm in mid-Devon; the fair is now held on the last Thursday of October. Tiverton Parkway station is about 12km to the south-east.
