SHOPPING

Shopping in Broadway is an experience you’ll always remember. The Cotswolds offers the perfect retail therapy for shopaholics with its impressive selection of fashion boutiques, home-ware stores offering local handmade crafts and souvenir gift shops. For the serious spenders, strewn across Broadway High Street you’ll find an eclectic mix of high fashion outlet stores, Michelin star restaurants and antique art galleries; all are within short walking distance of one another making it suitable for those with disabilities. For further information, please visit www.broadway-cotswolds.co.uk/art-and-antiques 

The town is a busy and vibrant shopping hub serving the local community and neighbouring rural areas. The Victoria Square and St Andrews Shopping Centre areas are well represented with many well known national retail stores and cosmopolitan coffee shops and cafes.

Refurbished in 2017, the High Street contains many independent and specialist shops and services. Mining subsidence caused the now characteristic sloping street scene, further enhanced by the buildings leaning at odd angles today. Leading from the High Street the pedestrian thoroughfare of Gurneys Lane continues the independent retailer outlets as far as the large Waitrose supermarket opposite to Vines Park.

Away from the centre visitors will find plentiful retail parks on the edge of town featuring some of the nation’s biggest names.

The Worcestershire Farmers’ Market is a regular visitor to Victoria Square, on the first Saturday of each month. Shoppers can chat with producers while selecting from a wide choice of locally produced foods such as cakes, preserves, honey, breads, cheeses, meats, sausages and seasonal fruit and vegetables.

Which ever direction you go in Evesham, you will find a different, yet enjoyable, shopping experience ranging from the quirky and quaint to well-known and substantial.

Starting with the town centre, it is quickly becoming a favourite for the leisure visitor with a multitude of coffee shops, bars, and restaurants. Visitors can choose to have a scenic and peaceful experience, or nestle within the buzz of town centre ambience – either indoor or outdoor – all close to Evesham’s best assets.

There are many national retailers within Evesham, located in the town centre or at points on the town’s boundary including The Valley (shopping, leisure and adventure centre), retail parks and farm shops.

Exploring Evesham is a real treat because you will experience the true character of the town with some amazing quirky sub-sectors, whether it be the likes of Vine Mews or Port Street, or learning about its history along the way.

A twice-weekly street market on Tuesdays and Thursdays should be visited, contributing to the buzz of activity in this characteristic market town.

The smallest of the towns in Worcestershire’s Vale and Spa in regards to size, but certainly not its offering! The town is well-known for its independent retailers, so if you’re looking for mass shopping at national retailers, this won’t be the place for you.

However, if you’re looking for a unique gift or an outfit your friends are unlikely to be wearing at your next social gathering, Pershore may well be the cure to that shopping headache.

Despite it’s small size, the retail offering is impressive ranging from clothes to cards; homeware to hardware; and butchers to bakers, with plenty more aside. With a walk to either the Abbey or the river Avon a couple of minutes away, you will be blessed with beautiful surroundings too.

A high proportion of the town’s independents can be found in the indoor Pershore Market, open Wednesday to Saturday. Customers can be assured of personal service with a real family atmosphere among the stall-holders.