Witney Charter Market

Witney's charter market is held in the Market Square every Thursday and Saturday, from 9am to 3pm. It belongs to West Oxfordshire District Council, and since 1 August 2025 Cotswold Markets Ltd has managed it, as it does the markets in Cirencester and Moreton-in-Marsh. The stalls set up around the Butter Cross, in the middle of Witney. Cotswold Markets had not published any changes for Christmas when we checked, and Christmas Eve and Boxing Day are both market days in 2026, so check before going then. Cotswold Markets also holds a Christmas market at Marriotts Walk from 26 to 29 November 2026.

The square and its market

The Butter Cross is the market's own shelter: a stone roof on thirteen round piers, built in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century, with a clock turret and sundial added in 1683. Beyond the square, Church Green runs south to St Mary's church, and the market is free to walk round.

The farmers' market

Witney also has a farmers' market on the fourth Friday of every month, run by the Thames Valley Farmers' Market Co-operative, a separate organiser, from 8.30am to 1.30pm. The next is on Friday 27 November 2026.

Getting there and parking

Parking is free in all of the district council's car parks in Witney, including Marriotts Walk, a few minutes' walk from the square, where levels one to six have a four-hour limit. Witney has no station: Hanborough, about 6 miles (10km) away, is the nearest, linked by the S7 bus, which also runs from Oxford through Woodstock. The X9 comes in from Charlbury and Chipping Norton.

Making a morning of it

For lunch, the Fleece is on Church Green and the Blue Boar, a coaching inn, is on the Market Square itself. After the market, walk down to the river and Cogges on the Witney Lake and Cogges walk.