Shopping
Leek – the nearest town to New York Farm, has a reputation for unusual shops, antiques, good food and award-winning teashops. It holds a traditional outdoor market on Wednesday, and an indoor market every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday in the restored Victorian Butter Market.
There is also an antique and collectors’ market held outdoors each Saturday and on the 3rd Saturday of the month is Leek’s Fine Food Market. Every 1st Sunday of the month is the ‘Totally Locally’ Sunday Supplement Market, championing shopping locally and supporting our local high streets.
Ashbourne – offers a plethora of small, family-run businesses and a weekly open-air market.
Bakewell – is home to one of Britain’s best Farmers’ Markets, as well as having specialist shops selling everything from high fashion and outdoor clothing to handmade chocolates and rare whiskies. Do try a Bakewell pudding while you’re there, or bring it back to have with your supper.
Buxton – A beautiful spa town, well known for its mineral water, annual opera festival and fringe festival. Home to the Pavilion Gardens with its Arts Centre, craft shop and tea rooms, Buxton offers some unique shops as well as some of the more well-known stores.
Hartington Village – This delightful village is surrounded by beautiful scenery with a network of footpaths offering wonderful walking. With two pubs, a village shop and tea rooms, it is also famous for its cheese shop.
Macclesfield – Home to the nearest Marks & Spencer and many other national brand stores, Macclesfield also offers a number of local stores to provide variety whilst browsing. The Treacle Market is well worth a visit and is held on the last Sunday of the month.
Matlock Bath – Whilst Matlock, which originated as a spa town, retains a typical urban feel with a wide range of antique, independent and more well-known shops, neighbouring Matlock Bath has taken on a very different guise. Often referred to as ‘Derbyshire-on-Sea’, this landlocked town has a main promenade lined with gift shops, amusement arcades and fish-and-chip cafes, overlooking the canoes and boats playing on the river, as well as a cable car precariously crossing the gorge.
Stoke-on-Trent – Is the world capital of ceramics so where better to go if you want to find anything from fine china, intricate figurines, table and cookware to mugs, tiles, jugs and jewellery in the towns many ceramic factory shops. The City also offers all the shops one would expect in any city centre as well as being home to Trentham Shopping Village with its 78 timber lodges housing amazing shops, cafes and restaurants.
Eating out
