Pumpkin picking and Halloween celebrations in Dorset

October is the season for colourful pumpkins and spooky goings on for Halloween.

Picking your own pumpkins is great fun and means you can get what you want fresh from the farm.

Wear shoes suitable for mud and take a bag to put the pumpkins in. Don’t forget to use a boot liner or cardboard to protect your vehicle as the pumpkins are straight off a field.

Where to pick pumpkins in Dorset

Bincombe Bumps Pumpkin Festival
Farmer Palmers, Poole
Gorcombe Pumpkins, Blandford
Pumpkin Fest at Gullivers Farm, Ferndown

Halloween events in Dorset

Nothe Fort

Halloween bug experience, 30 and 31 October, The Walled Garden, Moreton, Dorchester.

Haunted Forest Trail, 26 October to 2 November, Upwey Wishing Well and Tea Rooms.

Nothe of the Living Dead, 1 and 2 November. Minimum age 16. Jump scares and escape dungeon-style challenges and puzzles in an hour-long experience. Nothe fort, Weymouth.