The Gallybagger, Chillerton

31/05/2026

🎉The results are in!! 🎉

🌾🌾 Thank you to everyone who took the time to vote at the 2026 Chillerton and Gatcombe Scarecrow Festival 🌾🌾

The weather has been exceptionally kind to us (possibly too kind at times 🌞) and we hope all the visitors have enjoyed it as much as we have.

Our guest judges enjoyed the displays and were very complimentary about the effort that had gone into everyone’s entries. They awarded:

1st place - Lord of The Rings - Hill Farm, Gatcombe
2nd place - Wizard of Oz - Tuckers Farm, Gatcombe
3rd place - Honey, I Shrunk the Scarecrows - Roz Drysdale
4th place - Lady Godiva - Zoë Rhind
5th place - Edward Scissorhands - Julia and Mark Newton
6th place - Strictly Come Dancing - Yvonne & Richard Bartlett

For the ever popular People’s Vote, we had an incredible 631 votes. The results are:

1st Place - Lady Godiva - Zoë Rhind
2nd Place - The BFG - The Groves Family
3rd Place - Lord of The Rings - Hill Farm, Gatcombe
4th Place - Strictly Come Dancing - Yvonne & Richard Bartlett
5th Place - Edward Scissorhands - Julia and Mark Newton
6th Place - Derpy - Beatrice Leighton

We look forward to the 2028 event and hope to see you then

29/05/2026

24/05/2026

Hello
Pictures of 2026 scarecrows are on
www.gallybagger.org.uk

And a message below from Tim who kindly travelled around taking the pictures.

24/05/2026

Last act today thank you Ria...
Next live music Saturday 30th May 12:30 start

24/05/2026

Tony live lovely

23/05/2026

The fun starts today
Music, cake & Scarecrows
Even got sunshine
Grand opening today at 11am at Village hall with morris dancers dancing down to Gallybagger

See posters for details.
Hope to see some lots of smiling faces.
Please share
See posters for details

22/05/2026

Great line up plus on 23rd morris dancers dancing down from village green to Gallybagger and on 30th Wight ukers from around 11am
Thank you everyone

Of course, no festival would be complete without the addition of some fantastic 🎶 L I V E M U S I C 🎶

The Chillerton & Gatcombe Scarecrow Festival are pleased to announce the music line-up, hosted at The Gallybagger, Chillerton 🌾

S A T U R D A Y 2 3 R D M A Y
12:30pm Barry & Frank
13:30pm Messed Up Plucker
14:30pm Together in Harmony
15:30pm Geoff George
16:30pm ABACUS
7pm to 9pm An Irish rock evening with F**k! ☘️

S U N D A Y 2 4 T H M A Y
12:30pm Rocking Chairs
13:30pm DLW
14:30pm Tony Nicol
15:30 RIA (Solo Singer)

S A T U R D A Y 3 0 T H M A Y
12:30pm DLW
13:30pm The Brighstone Barnacles
14:30pm The Scores
15:30pm RazorJake
7pm 🏆 Winning Scarecrow Presentation 🏆
7:30pm to 9:30pm An evening with TuesdayZ!

Our sincere thanks to all the musicians for bringing us their amazing music and being part of The Chillerton & Gatcombe Scarecrow Festival 2026 - we can’t wait!

Hope to see you there (…Status Crow are you reading this?)…

Cheers everyone! 🍻

🌾 P L E A S E S H A R E F A R A N D W I D E 🌾

02/02/2026

Reminder we need support to make this years Scarecrow Festival a success.
Meeting this Thursday at Gallybagger inn 7pm.