Can anyone recommend a campsite near to a good Sunday market? Markets used to very popular once upon a time, but are becoming a bit thin on the ground. Are there any in the UK that are worth a visit & we can make a weekend out of it?
Overtaken to a large extent by car boot sales but our home town Frome (Somerset) relaunched last year as a Sunday Supermarket which is about 150+ stalls of a wide and eclectic mix, fine quality foods from independent manufacturers mostly local features highly. Also a flea market on the same day.
Dates not released yet - about once per month through the summer. It is a great success. Very popular.
There are plenty of camping/caravan sites near Catterick in North Yorkshire. We have a seasonal at Highfield Farm and there are 7 touring pitches which I really recommend. Check out their web site on here.
Catterick is a large Sunday market but there is Bedale on Tuesday, Northallerton & Richmond on Wednesday, Leyburn on Friday and Northallerton again on Saturday.
My dad has mentioned Penkridge market, I don't know what day it's on but he always mentions it when they go down to visit some relatives in Hednesford.
Because we have an allotment, he keeps ribbing us that we could 'have a field day' there!
There is a huge market at Wellesbourne in Warwickshire, but it's not a town market, is on Sundays and Bank Holidays at the old airfield and is very popular. There is a site nearby in Loxley Road, near the Flying Club which does (or at least used to do) a mean breakfast.
Quote: Originally posted by keigcf on 20/2/2013I think Tuffins also have a petting zoo? or am I imagining that<img align="absmiddle" src="forum_images/smiley5.gif" width="17" alt="17"> There is also a carboot at Madley, few miles from Hereford.
They used to, the last time I was there all the pens and enclosures were stuffed full of pigs. Even all the ponds, the ducks were gone and replaced with pigs. That was a couple of years back so perhaps it has been restocked?