Shopping, Local Food and Services

Tourist Information Garstang, (Sat Nav setting PR3 1EF) or tel. 01995 602125, or Clitheroe (Sat Nav setting BB7 2DA) or tel. 01200 425566

Garstang - 5.5 miles www.garstang.com or www.garstang.net.

Our local town is Garstang is a historic market town. It has a population of about five thousand. In 2000 the people of Garstang voted virtually unanimously for Garstang to become the world's first Fairtrade Town, for more information about Fairtrade look at www.fairtrade.org.uk where you will find the work of Fairtrade explained. It is home to the following supermarkets :- EH Booths, Sainsburys and Co-op. Market day in Garstang is a Thursday.

Chipping Village - 5 miles Newsagents, crafts and antiques shop, a café and Robinsons Butchers who sell locally produced meat and ‘Uncle Bob‘s Homemade Ice Cream‘. For lunchtime and evening dining there is also a choice of two public houses. Chipping Village (PDF 2.85mb) Chipping village web site

Longridge - 9 miles Supermarket and a good range of food and other shops also Banks, Post Office and Doctors.

Barton Grange Garden Centre and Farm Shop, www.bartongrange.co.uk at Bilsborrow – local suppliers at the Barton Grange Farm Shop include Honeywells Meats, Latham’s of Broughton, Bowland Spring Water www.bowlandspringwater.com Wallings of Cockerham, the Port of Lancaster Smokehouse, Ann Forshaw’s and a number of local cheese-makers and fruit and vegetable growers.

Clitheroe

High street names and small boutiques, jewellers and gift shops. Home to the award winning D.Byrnes wine and spirit merchant, Cowman's Famous Sausage Shop and the Platform Gallery, showcasing contemporary craft in Lancashire.

If you need larger stores or are just missing the bright lights then Lancaster and Preston are within easy driving distance.

Forest of Bowland Food

Local Food Producers In the Forest of Bowland there is a growing number of local producers committed to producing fine food of the highest quality so a visit to the Forest of Bowland can also be a feast for your taste buds.

Bowland Forest Foods a Bowland Farmers Cooperative
Robinsons Butchers
Chipping Bowland Brewery at Bashall Barn
Taste Bowland food directory (PDF 6.8mb)
The Ribble Valley Food Trail (PDF 3.0mb)
Forest of Bowland Teashop Map (1.0mb)

Grimsargh - Village Hall - 3rd Saturday of the month, 9am to 1pm

Lancashire cheese trails

Creamy Lancashire Cheese trail leaflet (PDF 865kb)

Plant Nurseries and Gardens

Waddow Lodge Open Garden web site
Cobble Hey Farm and Gardens web site
Holden Clough Plant Nursery web site
Oak Nurseries, Pudding Pie Nook La, Goosnargh

Arts and Crafts

Chipping Shop and Gallery (PDF 150kb)
www.artroomgallery.co.uk Garstang

Bowland Arts Festival www.bowlandarts.co.uk