Dunster a loud drum. The hobby horse dances its way about the town and on to Dunster Castle. Annually on the third Friday in August the village hosts the well known Dunster Show where local businesses and producers come together to showcase the very best that Exmoor and West Somerset has to offer. A major part of the show is the showing of livestock especially horses, cattle and sheep.The 2015 show was the 169th show. A more recent tradition (started in 1987) is Dunster by Candlelight which takes place every year on the first Friday and Saturday in December when this
Feudal barony of Dunster War he made Dunster Castle available for use as a convalescent home by the Royal Navy. On the death of his father in 1944 the payment of a large sum in Death Duties left the estate indebted and uneconomic to operate, and Geoffrey, whilst reserving a tenancy for himself at the Castle, sold the estates to a property development company which sold them on to the Commissioners of Crown Lands. He bought back the Castle and grounds in 1954 and opened them to the paying public. He died in 1957 and his widow remained at the Castle until her death