The Castlemorton Common Festival was a week-long free festival and rave held in the Malvern Hills near Hereford in 1992.

In May 1992 Avon and Somerset Police tried to end the annual Avon Free Festival, which had been held in the Bristol area around the May Bank Holiday for several years. As a result of the closing, the thousands of New Age travellers and ravers travelling to the area for the expected Festival were shunted into neighbouring counties by Avon and Somerset’s Operation Nomad police manoeuvres. An estimated 30,000 travellers, ravers and festival-goers gathered almost overnight on Castlemorton Common to hold a free party that lasted a full week, the biggest of its kind since Stonehenge Free Festival in the mid 1980s.

External links

• http://www.webm8.co.uk/riddler/cmorton.htm
• http://www.loftsites.co.uk/old_school_rave/diaries/castlemorton_common.html

Some historical background :

• http://www.beyondtv.org/beyondtv/page.php/376/soma/