Dear Editor,
Nantwich Market is officially ‘Top of the Pops’. It has been named among the top ten in the country at the Great British Market Awards 2025.
Farmer Andrew Hollinshead, owner of Real.Raw.Milk, has been selling produce at markets in Nantwich for eight years.
He said: “I think the thing that must be remembered about this market is it’s still part of the old time where people have freedom and people have an enjoyable shopping experience.”
Former Mayoress of Crewe and Nantwich, Sheila Davies, said, “Speaks 4 itself, and echoes exactly what av been saying for long enough. U need a reason to visit. Well done Nantwich.”
Nantwich Market opens Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at the junction of Market Street and Churchyardside, next to the magnificent St. Mary’s Church.
Sadly Labour run #CheshireEast have destroyed Crewe Market.
The Market Hall is just fast food and booze with the occasional entertainment. There is prescious little retail.
The once thriving Outside Market is down to just a handful of stalls at best.
All very sad and unnecessary……….as Nantwich has proved.
Yours faithfully,
Cllr Brian Silvester
Leader
Crewe First
Part of Nantwich that retains it’s quaint charm, with lovely hard-working, helpful, stallholders.
Why can’t the former mayoress post a message in the correct way?
It’s too easy to blame CE. They are part of the problem for CE that they need to generate money. If traders ad shop owners are excluded from paying rent etc then the revenue gap has to be found in another way , easiest being increasing council tax for residents and of they can cut services and lose peopl. The delinked if the down has gradually happened over the past 10-15 years. Changes to the way people shop, taste in what they want to buy etc and frankly most shop owners and market traders have not adapted to the market changes.. the town is reaching its tipping point and my fear that it not end well
I think it use to be a really good market. unfortunately it is just a ghost of it’s former glory.
It has lost it’s magnetism like Nantwich itself. I believe store holders get charged way too much by the council.
You can tell what state Nantwich is in by the amount of charity shops we have. I think we have greedy CEC to blame for all of this, the market once thrived, but now it’s pretty much dead like the town
It’s overrated