VisitWiltshire Visitor Guide 2024

Salisbury Market
McArthurGlen
Designer Outlet
Three Daggers Farm Shop
Chippenham
What’s in Store…
Whether you’re looking for designer brands
or high street names, independent outlets
or shopping malls, farm shops or markets,
you’ll find everything you want in Wiltshire!
Our award for the most unusual shopping location goes to…
Avebury! Probably not the first place that comes to mind when
planning a little retail therapy. Yet here, within the world’s largest
prehistoric stone circle, you’ll find not one, but two charming
businesses: The Henge Shop and Elements of Avebury.
Not far geographically, but a million miles away in
atmosphere, McArthurGlen Designer Outlet Swindon
makes a great day out for all the family. Over 90 stores to
choose from... A huge range of high street and designer
labels... Up to 60% off recommended retail prices... All
housed in the tastefully converted Grade II listed buildings of
Brunel’s former Great Western Railway works. Other retail
opportunities in Swindon include the traditional stores of
Old Town and shopping malls in the modern city centre.
All around Wiltshire, numerous small, family-run outlets
continue to thrive. Offering a relaxed and unhurried shopping
experience as they’ve been doing for generations. In
Devizes, for example. Hilltop Malmesbury. Or Tisbury –
which more than makes up for its lack of size with a unique
selection of interesting, independent shops. For stylish
stores in a cosmopolitan setting, the quintessentially
English towns of Marlborough and Bradford on Avon
are popular choices. As is Corsham, where many of the
Bath stone buildings on High Street are independent
businesses, providing irresistible retail opportunities.
PA Oxley near Calne is a treasure trove of antique clocks
and barometers. In Salisbury you’ll find galleries, studios and
workshops at Fisherton Mill and fine lingerie at Annie’s
Just Jane.
As befits a county famous for its local produce there are farm
shops aplenty – Allington Farm Shop near Chippenham, for
example. At Eversfield Organic in Marlborough you showcase
the best organic food & drink, award-winning produce and
grass-fed organic meat from their own farm. There is butcher,
fishmonger, deli, fresh fruit and veg, and even a ‘Wine Cave’.
Wiltshire is also home to markets of every shape and size.
Indoor, outdoor and farmers’ markets... continental and
Christmas markets... vintage, artisan and foodie markets...
we’ve got them all. What better way to spend an hour or two
than browsing the many stalls, where every imaginable item
is on offer. Top quality fruit and vegetables. Meat, fish, cheese
and eggs. Haberdashery, clothing, jewellery and more.
First prize for the longest running market goes to Trowbridge,
Wiltshire’s county town, where stallholders have been trading
since the year 1200. These days, it’s on a Wednesday. Hot on
its heels, history-wise, is Salisbury’s Charter Market, which
has been coming to the city on Tuesdays and Saturdays
(except the third Tuesday in October) for nigh on 800 years.
Other bustling market towns include Amesbury (Wednesday),
Bradford on Avon (Thursday), Calne (Friday), Chippenham
(Friday and Saturday), Corsham (Tuesday), Devizes
(Thursday), Highworth (Saturday), Marlborough (Wednesday
and Saturday), Pewsey (Tuesday), Warminster (Friday), and
Wroughton (Friday). For up-to-date details of these and other
markets go to visitwiltshire.co.uk/markets
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