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The next Lewes Farmers markets are on the 19th April and 3rd May 2025
located at Friars Walk Car Park, Lewes, a minutes walk from the Cliff Precinct, 9am to 1pm
Lewes Farmers Market established in October 1998
Twenty six years ago Lewes Farmers Market started out with three pilot markets. At that time Lewes was a trail blazer with only one other Farmers Market in England. Today Lewes Farmers Market continues to provide exceptional local food, is a fun place to shop, supports local businesses, and has stuck to its principles of environmental protection, high animal welfare standards, and minimum food miles and packaging.
Lewes Farmers Markets are the first and third Saturdays of the month.
Our new Farmers Market posters are beautifully hand drawn and designed by one of our stallholders, Steve Sanders of High Weald Dairy Cheese Tours
What is at the market
Our producers will have fresh eggs, honey, hand crafted cheeses, local apples and plums in season, organic fruit and vegetables, organic raw milk, yogurt, butter, organic beef, wild meats, free-range chicken, craft sourdough bread and pastries made with organic flour, home made cakes and puddings with lots of vegan and gluten free options, a selection of locally grown mushrooms, perennial plants, chutneys and jams, luxury sausage rolls and pork pies made from free-range rare breed pork, herbal teas made from homegrown herbs that also feed the bees, hand dyed wool, hand made baskets, charcoal, apple juice and cider, craft gin and vodka and organic wine made from grapes grown near Lewes.
Highlights include
1045 people responded to the survey, the majority of which were residents of Lewes town or district (82.58%) or visitors to Lewes (12.06%).
61.48% of respondents said they were more likely to go into Lewes town centre on Farmers’ Market days. 8.68% said they were less likely.
About half (48.56%) of respondents travel to the market on foot or bicycle.
Those who drive said they mainly park in a free parking space e.g. at a supermarket or residential on-street parking space (45.23%), or a paid car park (39.02%). When asked which car parks these respondents use on these days, around 20 different locations were mentioned.
Other comments included:
Many respondents really value/appreciate the market (286 individual responses)
Some respondents would prefer if it were back in the precinct (182)
Suggestions to increase the number/variety of stalls (166)
The market is important to the local economy (116)
Comments about the impact of parking on market day (104)
The market is good for the local community (80)
Parking at the Market
There is limited parking in Friars Walk Car Park during the market. View a map of the spaces available here. The Phoenix long stay car park is a 3 minutes drive away. Drivers with a Blue Badge can park in the designated disabled parking space in the precinct, or free of charge near the market in Railway Lane or Court Road.
Our stallholders and Market Manager Annabel, Photos by @Georgie_Steeds See us on BBC TV.
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