The Dorset Spring Show returns to Puddletown on 9th and 10th May, opening the county’s open-air event season with a programme that leans into spectacle this year, led by headline motocross stunt rider Jamie Squibb.
Squibb’s freestyle team will roar into the Spring Arena, performing high jumps and mid-air tricks – including leaps of more than 30 metres onto a lorry-mounted landing ramp.
If that’s not enough, the Bike Battle BMX team will bring a different kind of precision riding, with fast-paced displays running across the weekend.
The show balances that high-adrenaline edge with the more traditional countryside demonstrations you might expect from the team behind the Dorset County Show.
Away from the main arena, there’s plenty to keep the crowds busy: new for 2026 is the Circus Skills workshop (anyone can take part) and shows, and watch out for the full-sized dinosaur who will be roaming the site! Also new this year are the fire dancing performances, the music stage, wood carving demonstration, hands-on pottery workshops.
Sheepdog displays return – and, as the team point out, with working collies guiding goats into pens in front of a busy crowd, ‘anything can happen’. The Dorset Spring Show offers a full day out for all ages: the Spring Farm offers a chance to meet sheep, pigs, cattle, goats and alpacas, while shire horses take centre stage in the Heavy Horse Village.
Now established as an early fixture in Dorset’s events calendar, the show continues to offer a brilliant family day out.
The show takes place at Birch Lane Showground, near Puddletown (DT2 7LN), with free parking available. Children go FREE (aged 15 and under), adult tickets £14 until 2nd May. Full details and tickets can be found at dorsetspringshow.co.uk.
