Covered Market
Guide
Photo: Jorge Royan · CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
FreeMarketAllow 20–45 minPut together by AI from open data
What you'll see
Narrow roofed lanes of small shops and stalls: butchers, bakers, cake decorators, cafés and gift shops.
A brief history
It opened in 1774 to clear messy street stalls off the main roads, and has been trading ever since.
Tips
- Best time
- Late morning, for an early lunch
- Cost
- Free to look
- Allow
- 20–45 min
- Free days
- Always free to enter
- Hours
- Usually daily, shorter hours on Sundays (check)
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Good to know
- Area
- The centre and the colleges: Carfax, the Covered Market, Christ Church and the cobbled lanes around the Radcliffe Camera.
- Access
- Step-free
- Indoors or out
- Indoors: good on a hot or rainy day
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