"Rummage for vintage finds inside the historic Town Hall of one of England's smallest towns, with a veg stall tucked out front."
Bishop's Castle Antiques and Flea Market
"A small village market on the green in one of the prettiest villages in the Howardian Hills. Every first Saturday of the month."
Hovingham Farmers Market
"Now in its third decade, every stall on the Quay is run by the Devon grower or cook who made the produce, rain, shine, snow or wind."
Kingsbridge Farmers' Market
"A tiny Somerset Levels village hall market run by the parish church, serving bacon butties and toasted tea-cakes alongside organic lamb and Burrow Hill cider."
North Curry Produce Market
"Fifty-plus stalls of crafts and provisions spill across the Village Green while young local entrepreneurs hawk their wares and buskers play."
Ruddington Village Market
"A FARMA national award winner where over thirty producers fill the Georgian market square with food reared or made within fifty miles."
Stokesley Farmers' Market
"First Saturday of the month on the Memorial Gardens, with local produce, music and the steep stone streets of a former lead mining town climbing away on every side."
Wirksworth Farmers' Market
"A neighbourhood that takes its food seriously, doing what neighbourhoods should do on the first Sunday morning of every month."
Chapel Allerton Farmers Market
"A curated destination street market closing the streets of this creative Somerset town for contemporary designers, makers, vintage and street food."
The Frome Independent
"A FARMA-accredited market spilling out of the historic Market Hall in a Westmorland Dales village just minutes off the M6, with church teas and primary-school stalls."
Orton Farmers' Market
"Around forty-five stalls of farmed goods and crafts gather on Ripley's beautiful village green, all run by volunteers who plough the profits back into local charities."
Ripley Farmers' Market
"An honest market town doing what market towns do, on the second Sunday of every month. The kind of morning that stays with you."
Bedale Farmers Market
"Cheese, bread and chocolate stalls set up in Roberts Park within Titus Salt's perfectly preserved Victorian model village and World Heritage Site."
Saltaire Farmers' Market
"A monthly antiques and collectables market on Castle Square in Ludlow, drawing dealers and browsers from across the Marches to one of the best-preserved Tudor market towns in England."
Ludlow Antiques Market
"A friendly community market held every third Saturday in the ancient village of Clun, running from 10am to noon and now established at Clun Memorial Hall, offering locally produced goods in the heart of one of South Shropshire's most picturesque villages."
Clun Village Market
"Broad Street in a cress-farm town, third Sunday of the month. Everything local. Nothing superfluous. The right kind of Sunday."
Alresford Farmers Market
"Dales farmers and makers fill the cobbled Market Square of this Wharfedale village with artisan bread, preserves and locally reared meat."
Grassington Farmers' Market
"Billed as the biggest in Devon, the Civic Square fills with food and craft stalls in this famously bohemian South Hams town."
Totnes Good Food Sunday Market
"A regular monthly market on Ludlow's historic Castle Square showcasing local growers, bakers, cheesemakers and food producers from across South Shropshire and the Marches."
Ludlow Local Producers' Market
"On the last Saturday of the month the Agricultural Business Centre fills with Peak District producers, in the town that gave its name to the pudding."
Bakewell Farmers' Market
"A multi-award-winning north Oxfordshire market where thirty stalls fill the Market Place and craft sellers spill into the church, even a Swedish cook in the mix."
Deddington Farmers' Market
"Gateway Square on the last Saturday of the month. New Forest produce, familiar faces, and no particular reason to rush home."
Ringwood Farmers Market
"A market under the Hartley Wintney oaks on the last Sunday of the month, Hampshire smallholders and bakers in a famously leafy village on the old coaching road."
Hartley Wintney Farmers' Market
"The Cathedral city's market, twice monthly. A Sunday morning with the High Street, the close, and nowhere better to be."
Winchester Market
"A combined food and craft market held monthly on Ludlow's Castle Square, uniting independent food traders with local craft makers in one of England's finest market town settings."
Ludlow Food & Craft Market
"Seventy stalls of crafts and local produce take over the scenic centre of this canal-and-cross Cheshire village beside Lymm Cross."
Lymm Makers Market
"Forty local makers and artisan producers fill the medieval village hall and its glebe field in one of Suffolk's most photographed timber-framed villages, with street food trucks and barista coffee outside."
Lavenham Summer Craft and Foodie Festival
"Rare breed sheep fill the market square with sheep racing, shearing and Wensleydale crafts."
Masham Sheep Fair
"A charter sheep fair held every October since 1238 in this south Lincolnshire village."
Corby Glen Sheep Fair
"A charter fair famous in Devon song, filling the stannary town's streets with stalls and rides each October."
Tavistock Goosey Fair
"More than 100 craft and food stalls fill the Great Court of Chatsworth House for five weeks each winter, set against one of England's grandest country houses with the Peak District as backdrop and the illuminated light trail running after dark."
Chatsworth Christmas Market
"Sixty handpicked chalets fill the Great Court of Blenheim Palace for five weeks, with artisan gifts, seasonal food and drink and a Cinderella-themed illuminated light trail winding through the palace grounds after dark."
Blenheim Palace Christmas Market
"Now in its 26th year, East Anglia's best-loved Christmas shopping event fills the Norfolk Showground for three days with hundreds of artisan makers, festive food and the warm buzz of early gift hunting."
Norfolk Festive Gift and Food Show
"The wide High Street of this Wealden market town fills with over 100 stalls for ten days each November, coinciding with the Christmas tree lights switch-on and drawing visitors from across Kent for street food, artisan groceries and handmade crafts across three outdoor stages."
Tenterden Christmas Market
"Alnwick Castle's historic Guest Hall opens for a one-day Christmas fair with handcrafted gifts from local artisans, seasonal food and twinkling lights, all in aid of Newcastle Hospitals Charity's Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Unit."
Alnwick Castle Christmas Fair
"The Market House in England's highest market town fills with local and regional makers selling hand-crafted wood, knitwear, jewellery and ceramics for a special November Christmas show, deep in the winter silence of Wensleydale."
Hawes Christmas Craft Fair
"Forty local crafters and artisan makers fill the medieval village hall of this Suffolk wool town for a two-day Christmas market, running alongside the award-winning Lavenham Farmers Market and a pop-up cafe in one of England's best-preserved medieval streetscapes."
Lavenham Christmas Craft Market
"Black-and-white timbered Tudor streets light up as a festive market lines Churchyardside in this characterful Cheshire market town."
Nantwich Christmas Lights and Festive Market
"One of England's finest stone towns fills its streets with stalls for its Christmas market each November, where Georgian and limestone architecture provides a festive backdrop that has been drawing visitors and film crews to Stamford for generations."
Stamford Christmas Market
"England's smallest county town fills its compact market square and the surrounding lanes with stalls each November, a Christmas market in a place most of England has never found that rewards those who do with independent shops and a genuinely unspoiled market town atmosphere."
Uppingham Christmas Market
"Hundreds of stalls spill through Georgian streets and around the cathedral in one of East Anglia's most atmospheric small-town festive markets."
Bury St Edmunds Christmas Fayre
"A warm Hampshire village evening of handbell ringers, mulled wine and local small businesses opening in the parish hall on a late November Thursday, the kind of Christmas market that has never tried to be anything other than itself."
Ropley Christmas Market
"On two consecutive Fridays in late November and early December, Broadway's honey-stone High Street stays open until 8.30pm with Christmas lights, live music, mulled wine, street entertainers, and pony sleigh rides drawing festive crowds to the village."
Broadway Late Night Christmas Shopping
"The village green of this pretty Georgian North Norfolk village is wrapped in festoon lights for its annual Christmas light switch-on, surrounded by food stalls, craft sellers, ponies, Santa and fairground rides in a scene that somehow looks exactly like a Christmas card should."
Burnham Market Christmas
"The de Rothschild gardens in the New Forest open their gates for two festive weekends with more than 75 local producers, a Father Christmas in a steam railway carriage and an illuminated night train through the woodland after dark."
Exbury Christmas Fair
"Held over two days at the atmospheric Tweedies Bar and Lodge on Red Bank Road, this outdoor Christmas market draws artisan stallholders from across Cumbria and pairs local food and festive drinks with a Lake District village backdrop."
Grasmere Christmas Market
"Cobbled Yorkshire Dales lanes fill with stalls, brass bands and the scent of mulled wine in this beloved replacement for the old Dickensian festival."
Grassington Christmas Market
"The narrow streets of this West Sussex market town host a makers Christmas market each late November in the shadow of Petworth House's vast estate wall, a properly artisan alternative to the big city versions with only locally produced gifts on offer."
Petworth Christmas Market
"Settle's annual market fills the historic Market Place with food, drink and produce stalls, rounded off with a community fireworks display and the town Christmas lights switch-on at dusk."
Settle Christmas Market
"The multicoloured painted houses of Tobermory harbour are strung with lights as local producers set up their Christmas market by the pontoons, coinciding with the lights switch-on that turns this Isle of Mull town into a winter scene that passengers on the Oban ferry can see from the water."
Tobermory Christmas Market
"The handsome market town at the gates of Blenheim Palace dresses its stone streets for a Victorian Christmas each late November, with costumed traders, a Santa parade and independent shops that have been taking Christmas seriously in this Oxfordshire town for longer than the great park next door has had public visitors."
Woodstock Victorian Christmas
"The magnificent Victorian Market Hall of this Welsh market town at the foot of the Brecon Beacons hosts its Christmas markets on late Sundays in November and December, offering local crafts and food in one of the grandest working market buildings in Wales."
Abergavenny Christmas Market
"Pinder Hall in this beautiful Thames-side village fills with local artisan makers each late November, a genuinely community-scale market that supports the Maidenhead Baby Bank and puts carol singers on the street outside."
Cookham Christmas Market
"The prettiest village in Wiltshire opens its village hall for a handful of December market days, the kind of small, candlelit affair the postcard villages do best."
Castle Combe Christmas Market
"Bonnets, top hats and candlelight transform the timber framed National Trust village into a living Dickens novel for one twilit evening."
Dickensian Lacock
"The medieval village of Dunster, complete with castle and octagonal market house, transforms each December into a torch-lit winter festival with medieval re-enactment, a banquet, live music and a torchlit procession through the ancient streets."
Dunster Winter Festival
"This beautifully preserved Westmorland market town packs three days with chalet villages, indoor and outdoor markets, a lantern parade, a Ferris wheel in Market Square and live music across multiple stages in one of the Lake District's most complete and least-touristed town centres."
Kirkby Lonsdale Christmas Fair
"Tetbury's beloved annual Christmas Fayre fills the streets around the historic Market House with craft and gift stalls, live music from the Silver Band, Santa's grotto, and a community lights switch-on at 6pm that draws the whole town together."
Tetbury Christmas Fayre and Market
"The wide Georgian high street of New Alresford dresses for a Victorian-themed Christmas market where independent boutiques and local producers spread onto the broad pavements, making one of Hampshire's most handsome towns look exactly as a small-town Christmas should."
Alresford Victorian Christmas
"The Royal Deeside village that sits at the foot of the hills above Balmoral holds its Christmas market each December in a setting in the Cairngorms National Park that very few other Christmas markets anywhere in Britain can match for sheer backdrop."
Ballater Christmas Market
"The village famous for sticky toffee pudding and its beautifully preserved medieval priory church wraps its square in Christmas lights each December, filling the square with local producers, food stalls and the particular warmth of a village that takes its festivities as seriously as its puddings."
Cartmel Christmas Market
"The most perfect high street in the Cotswolds hosts its Christmas market each early December, with honey-gold limestone buildings lit by torches, stalls that seem to belong to another century and the smell of mulled wine drifting past the fourteenth-century Market Hall."
Chipping Campden Christmas Market
"The Suffolk market town whose Norman castle looms over its rooftops brings its square alive with stalls each December, a small and properly local market where the castle walls provide a backdrop that no purpose-built Christmas market could ever replicate."
Framlingham Christmas Market
"Over 50 craft and local produce stalls fill the car-free medieval streets of Hawkshead each December, culminating in a lantern parade and Christmas carols in the village square on Saturday evening."
Hawkshead Christmas Fair
"The town of a thousand bookshops turns its streets into a winter market each December, where hand-crafted gift stalls sit alongside the antiquarian bookshops that have made this Welsh Borders town a destination known the world over."
Hay-on-Wye Christmas Market
"The elegant village of Hillsborough, built around a Georgian church and an eighteenth-century castle in County Down, hosts its Christmas market each December bringing together Northern Irish craft producers and food stalls in one of the most architecturally composed village settings on the island."
Hillsborough Christmas Market
"The historic Market Place fills with festive stalls and a Sunday fireworks display bursts above the river gorge and viaduct."
Knaresborough Christmas Market
"This steep, stone-built Peak District town strings up its lights, gathers carol singers and even brings alpacas to its farmers and craft market."
Wirksworth Christmas Weekend
"The small harbour town of Yarmouth transforms its quayside into an evening market run by Island artisans, with carols in the square as the light drops over the Solent and the ferry lights move slowly past in the dark."
Yarmouth Christmas Craft Market
"This small South Lanarkshire market town, known for its remarkable puppet theatre and its unusually well-preserved High Street, lights up for a December winterfest that draws visitors from across the Clyde Valley for community entertainment and a properly Scottish Christmas welcome."
Biggar Winterfest
"This Somerset village built around a turreted castle and a working octagonal Yarn Market fills its cobbled streets for a December market, where the medieval buildings and the Exmoor hills rising beyond provide a backdrop that would be impossible to fabricate."
Dunster Christmas Market
"Over a hundred stalls line the broad medieval High Street beneath the castle for a proper Dales Christmas wander."
Skipton Yuletide Festival
"More than 130 stalls from local makers, producers and the Hexham Farmers Market fill the historic Market Place, Abbey Cloisters and the medieval priory buildings of Hexham Abbey for a single festive Saturday each December."
Hexham Christmas Market
"Set around Wells Cathedral and the historic Market Place, this council-run annual market draws over 100 stalls of handmade gifts, local food and drink, and live music into one of England's smallest and most ancient cities."
Wells Christmas Market
"A celebration of Welsh wool and natural fibres, with hundreds of stalls of fleece, yarn and craft."
Wonderwool Wales
"The medieval hilltop village comes alive with 40 stalls, live music and the flavours of East Suffolk in a community market that refreshes four times a year."
Wickham Market Summer Market on the Hill
"A renowned vintage and makers market spills across the walled gardens of Glenarm Castle for one charming summer weekend."
The Tedberry Market at Glenarm Castle