Programmes cost £1.00 and are on sale from mid October in the Dunster shops. At Candlelight they are on Sale in the Exmoor Visitor Centre at the top of the steps as you get off the Park and Ride bus.

Programmes can also be obtained by post. You will need to send 3 x First Class Stamps and an A5 Stamped addressed Envelope to Mrs Bradshaw, 1 Kilbury, Northfield Road, Minehead TA24 5QQ 01643 706355. e-mail info@withycombefair.co.uk mark the subject as Dunster by Candlelight.

If you are coming to visit Dunster during the day on Friday, Saturday or Sunday, it is business as usual and you can park, walk and shop without the crowds. You can park in The Steep Car Park in Dunster up to 3pm. There is a Steward on the entrance who will give you a card explaining that everyone without a special Car Pass must be out of the car park by 3pm and go to Minehead to catch the Park and Ride. Follow the A A signs to park for the Park and Ride. The special Car Passes are for the village residents and Hotel guests who would normally park in the Dunster Streets.

Many people choose to see Dunster during the day and then come back again in the evening for the occasion. Why not try it too !

You’d like to come and experience Dunster by Candlelight ? Great, we’d be very pleased to see you but wherever you are coming from please follow the signs for Park and Ride which is outside Dunster at Minehead, Wheddon Cross and Watchet.

Parking~~ There is NO parking in Dunster. Very few residents in Dunster have parking so they have to be looked after and it is their cars that fill the Car Parks. They have special Car Passes to enable them to do this.

Park and Ride has had to change this year so please read the information below, carefully, noting Wheddon Cross and Watchet as new Park and Ride services. Also note the new bus prices and the different timings.

Park and Ride (Free Parking). Minehead Park and Ride is £2.50 return. Watchet and Wheddon Cross is £3 return irrespective of where you board the bus. Accompanied children under 14 travel free.

Minehead ~ Park and Ride will run from new areas of Minehead. Follow the AA signs. Parking is mainly opposite the entrance to Butlins. Buses will pick up from both ends of the Butlins road. It will also pick up at the West Somerset Railway Station. Only the Minehead Park and Ride Buses will run continuosly from 3pm. with the last bus going back to Minehead from Dunster at 10.45pm.

Disabled Parking~follow the AA signs to Minehead and turn right at the seafront roundabout by Butlins. On Friday night it will be in a coned area on the sea front Car Park opposite Butlins. The bus stop is close by. On Saturday night it will be in the Minehead Golf Club Car Park which is at the end of the Butlins road. The First Company Buses will run from 3pm both days and the final bus will leave Dunster at 10.45pm. Some of the these buses have low steps. There will also be an Accessible Transport bus that will take a wheel chair but that bus will only run from 5pm on Friday and 4pm on Saturday at approximately half hour intervals until approximately 10pm

Wheddon Cross. ~ Park and Ride. for the first time buses will run from Wheddon Cross through Timberscombe to the far end of West Street in Dunster. Parking which will be signed is in the Webbers auction field. This bus will start at 5pm and run every half an hour until the last one leaves Dunster at 10pm. (Free Parking) Bus tickets on this route will be £3 return for each adult irrespective of where you board the bus. Accompanied children under 14 travel free.

Watchet.~Park and Ride will also run from Watchet through the villages of Washford, Bilbrook and Carhampton. Parking for this bus will be in the main Watchet Car Park and the Station Car park. This bus will start at 5pm and run every half an hour until the last one leaves Dunster at 10pm. (Free Parking). Bus tickets £3 for each adult return (irrespective of where you board the bus). Accompanied children under 14 travel free.