Fresh produce always available from the market

The Street Market at Market Drayton

Robert Clive (of India) a Drayton boy

Black and White 'Magpie' buildings

Market Drayton

Market Drayton is the home of Gingerbread which has been baked in the town for the last 200 years. Not content with rum in their secret recipe, decadent Draytonians dunk it in port. It is reputed to have curiously restorative powers.

A Saxon settlement referred to as Draitune in the Domesday Book and granted its market charter by Henry III it has been home to one of the liveliest street markets ever since.

In times gone by Market Drayton was famed for its Damson Fairs when the textile makers from the north would buy the damsons to make dye for their cloth. Nowadays you'll find damsons in jams, cheeses, pies and , of course, gin. Find them on the WI market stall at the Wednesday market and at the Clive and Coffyne inn.

The town's most famous son, Clive of India, even gave the French a culinary lesson. His "little pies" won the Guinness Best Pub Food Award. The French in Pezenas wolf down 150,000 a year.

Today Market Drayton still brings food to the world. Both Muller yoghurts and Palethorpes quiches and pies are made in Market Drayton. If all this food needs walking off, there are unusual, even bloodthirsty, town trails - Murder & Mayhem, the Boyhood haunts of Clive of India and Children's Wild Animal Adventure trail.

Or you could take a stroll along the Shropshire Union Canal and the breathtaking 40 steps aqueduct.

Nearby there are the award winning gardens of Wollerton Old Hall, Dorothy Clive Gardens and Bridgemere Garden World. Also Hawkstone Park a unique landscape of follies, cliffs, caves and grottoes.

Market Drayton is ideal as a base for exploring Stoke and the Potteries, Ironbridge, Shrewsbury and Chester.

For information on where to get your Gingerbread, contact Shropshire Customer First & Visitor Information Centre, Market Drayton on 01630 653114

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