Visit St Albans Markets

Our address

St Peter’s Street, St Albans AL1 3ED

By bus

230, 300, 301, 302, 304, 305, 357, 361, 601 The Alban Way, 602, 653 Tigermoth, S4, S5, and S6.

Plan your bus journey using the Intalink journey planner.

By railway

The nearest stations are St Albans Abbey and St Albans City.

Plan your train journey using Network Rail’s journey planner.

Car parking

Parking at, nearby, Drovers Way multi-story car park costs £3.80 for three hours parking on Wednesdays and Saturdays and £2.50 all day on Sundays (Car Parks and On Street Pay and Display).

Hire a mobility scooter

If you have mobility issues, you might be able to borrow a scooter from St Albans Shopmobility.

Toilets and baby changing facilities

There are publicly accessible toilets available from 10:00 in the morning at the Museum + Gallery (find the Museum + Gallery on Google Maps) and from 08:00 in the morning Monday to Saturday and from 10:30 on Sundays at Marks & Spencer (find Marks & Spencer on Google Maps). Both of these toilets have baby changing facilities.

We host 150 traders on our market.

On Wednesdays and Saturdays you can buy produce, gifts, and homeware for sale as well as a selection of international street food. You can also find watch and phone repairs. On the second Sunday of each month we focus on local food and drink, sustainable arts and crafts, and much more.

Below are links to a small sample of our traders:

Beer, cider, perry, and spirits

• Griffiths Brothers—We’re a family run distillery in the Buckinghamshire village of Penn Street, deep in the Chiltern Hills
• Watergull Orchards—a Family Owned and Run Business For Over 20 years, Producing Single Variety Apple Juices, Mixed Flavour Juices, Pear Juice and Cider. All From Tree To Bottle Within Cambridgeshire.

Fashion

• GiftiCuffs—officially licensed band merchandise range

Homeware and gifts

• Alban Blinds
• Edgy Threads—Contemporary crochet using recycled t-shirt fabric
• Hannah Sessions
• Kenny Deane Limited Edition Vinyl Art
• My Rustic Home
• Rosa Fabulosa—Rosa Fabulosa is the inspired indulgent home scent brand. We take the best blends from batches of botanicals and pure essential oils paired with quality ingredients
• So Cosy—So Cosy design and produce luxury handcrafted homeware, fashion accessories, and even charming baby alpaca gifts too, all from our range of pure, natural and sustainable fibres

Ready to eat food

• Comida Brasil—the taste of Brazil
• Daisie’s Kitchen—a mix of flavour and passion
• Noviellos—ice cream at its best
• Peddling Pizza—Peddling Pizza serve award winning Neapolitan style pizzas, made with passion from ‘Buzz’ our custom Italian 3 wheeled Piaggio Ape van
• Rolling Burritos—For the love of a good Burrito, we started Rolling Delicious Burritos

Provisions

• Brockleby’s—pies handmade in Melton Mowbray
• Brown Bread—Steve has brought together bread, cakes and patisseries from the best bakers to bring to you at your local market.
• Chilli Gold—The gold standard for chilli products
• Chrissy’s Cupcakes
• Coffee Gems—artisan roasters
• Earthworks—the natural place to grow
• Eat Whole Foods—sunshine inside
• Foxholes—farm shop and butchery
• A Good Egg—purveyors of the finest scotch eggs
• Lime Tree Pantry Foods—the home of delicious Award Winning shortcrust pastry pies and delicious cakes. Our famous shortcrust pastry recipe has been passed down through generations and it truly does give our range of savoury and sweet pies that ‘just like grandma used to make’ taste
• Lincolnshire Poacher Cheese—We, Simon and Tim Jones, at Lincolnshire Poacher Cheese, are absolutely committed to producing the very best cheese that we possibly can (with a little help from our 230 Holstein Fresian Cows!) using only our own unpasteurised milk and traditional methods.
• Meatsmiths—The Smiths’ are a small family business who are passionate about producing and procuring the very best in pork based products
• Meah’s Sauces—curry sauces to cook at home
• Redbournbury Watermill and Bakery
• totally cultured—creators of modern british ferments
• Yvette’s Chocolates

The market was established in circa 860 by Wulsin, the sixth abbot of St Albans.

Following the dissolution of the monasteries, the right to hold the market on Wednesdays and Saturdays were sold to the town in 1553 via letters patent by Edward VI which also incorporated St Albans as a borough. Read a translation of the letters patent.

Learn more about the history of St Albans Market on Wikipedia.

If you love St Albans Market, help us to grow by leaving reviews and sharing photos on:

• Google’s listing for our Market
• TripAdvisor’s listing for our Market.
• Yelp’s listing for our Market.

Further information is also available on the Enjoy St Albans market page.

Information about visiting Harpenden Farmers’ Market can be found on Harpenden Town Council’s markets webpage.

Information about visiting Redbourn Village Market can be found on Redbourn Village Market’s webpage.