Funfairs are a pretty modern version of what folks do, and that is what folkies are about, surely? Would a victorian funfair be more in keeping. Steamboats and Tunnels of Love (who said the Victorians didn't have a subtle smutty sense of humour?)

But yes they are noisey and always were, as I recall from my relatively recent youth.

Sadly I can't do Chippenham and Chester and the 1 hour drive v 3 hours rather clinches it.