5 Best Shopping in Penrith, The Lake District

Artisanal cheese and the best of Cumbria's local produce, including the town’s famously good toffee, are available at this mouthwateringly good bakery and deli. The hot steak pie is perhaps the best you'll ever taste.

Clocks, hip flasks, doors, tools, kettles, toys, furniture, and all sorts of old treasure can be found in this wonderful antiques shop and salvage yard just up the hill from the town center. The Yard Kitchen serves excellent coffee, wine, and soft drinks, plus a menu of light snacks and cakes.

Penrith's weekly market takes place every Tuesday in the Great Dockray parking lot, but on the third Tuesday of the month, it moves to the market square. Here you can buy local produce and original crafts, and many of the award-winning farmers are happy to talk about what they've grown and raised.

This welcoming little bookshop, hidden on a quiet pedestrian street, has a well-chosen selection of children's books on the ground floor and adult books upstairs, as well as a lovely selection of stationery and plenty of hiking maps. They often host book signing events with authors.

This shop, where Queen Elizabeth II used to buy her toffee, may also have England's best fudge. The shop was established by Annie Furnass in 1910 and the toffee has been made in Penrith ever since.