Moreton-in-Marsh Tuesday Market

Moreton-in-Marsh has a market on its High Street every Tuesday, from 9am to 3pm. The stalls set up along the wide main street, the Fosse Way as it passes through the town, by the Curfew Tower and Redesdale Hall. Cotswold Markets Ltd has run it since 1976. Moreton was first granted a weekly market in the 1220s, by a charter to the Abbot of Westminster, and the Crown granted another in 1637; the market lapsed for long stretches in between, according to the Victoria County History.

What it is like

It is a working town market as much as a visitor's one, and the operator describes it as drawing local custom and coach tours alike. On Tuesdays Moreton-in-Marsh is busier than the rest of the week, so come in the morning if you want a parking space and room to look round. It is free to walk round. The operator publishes no change to the Tuesday pattern over Christmas; 29 December 2026 is a Tuesday, so check before then.

Getting there and parking

Moreton is one of the easiest Cotswold market towns to reach by train: the station, on the line from London Paddington and Oxford, is a few minutes' walk from the High Street. Drivers can use Old Market Way car park (GL56 0JY), £2.40 for two hours or £3.40 for up to ten hours, paid by card or phone (no cash), or the station car park with 128 spaces. The council's public toilets are on the High Street, 50p, with an accessible toilet (free with a RADAR key) and baby change.

The 801 bus from the station goes on to Stow-on-the-Wold and Bourton-on-the-Water, so a market morning can be the start of a day without a car.

Making a day of it

For lunch, the White Hart Royal and the Redesdale are on the High Street. In the afternoon, walk out to Batsford Arboretum on the Moreton and Batsford walk. In early September the town's other big day is the Moreton Show, on the Batsford Estate.