It certainly does have a good range of shopping for both natives and visitors. You can find artisan cheese shops for yourself or your guests or, if it's high-street shopping you want, then you can find M and S, White Stuff, East and Laura Ashley. Plus lots and lots more and they are beautifully and tightly packed into a very pretty main street, which is currently overflowing with torrents of gorgeous flower pots and baskets, striking. Definitely a contender for the prettiest town.
Before I go on, I should really plug two of my favourites: Rutherford's ( a department store of high quality STUFF) and the arts and crafts stalls in the town hall -last year I bought my mum one of those original jigsaws made from the artist's painting, with cunning pictures on both sides of the pictures, evil in cardboard form. I thought I'd got her that time!
But if you are looking for a real shopping experience, something to transport you to true purchasing paradise, then visit J. Smail and Sons> Ironmongers smack, bang in the middle of the high street.
Is this somewhere you could bring your children? I hear you ask. Definitely. They have to know the realities of life, don't they? Everyone's sink will block. Everyone needs exactly the right size of nails, screws, plugs, sandals, shirts, pots, pans, glassware, tea towels, kettles, tables, chairs, underlay... need I go on? Oooh, the detail! The expert advice. The down-right, pure practicality of it all.
Visit it soon. It's one of those shops a lot of us keep in the back of our heads but does not feel altogether of this world. It's not modern or sleek but it's real. And reality wins out every time.
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