The festival site is in the beautiful Winterborne Valley at Came Park, in the grounds of the 18th century Came House which replaced a medieval manor that had been granted to William Earl of Pembroke in the reign of Henry VI.

The house itself is not open to the public but the 14/15th century church of St Peter's at Winterborne Came, also within the grounds, is administered by the Churches Conservation Trust and may be visited on foot. The famous Dorset Poet William Barnes was rector here from 1862 until he died in 1886.

Came House was used by Thomas Hardy as the setting for his short story The Doctor's Legend . His home, Max Gate is about a mile away on the edge of Dorchester.

Feint remnants of the lost medieval village of Winterborne Farringdon may be seen in adjacent fields, including one wall of the church of St Germans which still stands.

The picturesque hamlet of Whitcombe on the main road is also medieval in origin and its church dates in part from the 12th century.

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Access is along the lane from the A352 Dorchester to Wareham road just over half a mile from the junction with the A35 Dorchester Bypass, and about a mile and a half from Dorchester Town Centre

Parking will be provided over the weekend, and the site lies close to the Dorchester to Wareham bus route.