Cirencester Shops - Shopping in Cirencester

 

Cirencester has a mix of shops that should cater for most people's needs, from small local retailers to large national chain stores.

 

The main shopping area centres around:

 

• Market Place (includes Crew Clothing, Cargo, House of Fraser (Rackhams) and Jessops)
• Dyer Street (includes Argos, Gardiner Haskins - previously Gardiner Homecentre and Marks & Spencer food outlet)
• Cricklade Street (includes GAME, Halfords, Boots, Mountain Warehouse, Burton and Dorothy Perkins)
• Castle Street (includes R. Scott & Co, Concord Foto, WH Smith, White Stuff and Plum)

 

There is also a small covered shopping area called Bishops Walk. CDs and DVDs can be found in WH Smith in Castle Street. There are DVD rental outlets in the town, the largest being Blockbuster (previously Choices) in Dyer Street which also hires out PlayStation and Xbox games.

 

Relative newcomers to Cirencester include Mountain Warehouse, Lick The Spoon, Poundland, Jack Russell and Costa Coffee (which took over the premises vacated when Currys closed in 2006) and the Body Shop.

 

The catalogue shop Argos has a presence in Dyer Street. Gardiner Haskins has a large range of "white goods" such as washing machines and fridge freezers as well as selling DIY, gardening and home furnishing goods.

 

Womenswear is particularly well represented with many independent stores in the town together with established chains such as Dorothy Perkins, Country Casuals, Crew Clothing and Fat Face.

 

The General Trading Company closed in the summer of 2007 (the premises is now occupied by The Streamer Trading Cookshop), but Lock Stock and Barrel in the Market Place is among the shops selling 'nik naks', while House of Fraser, also in the Market Place, prides itself on being Cirencester's one and only department store.

 

Halfords, Boots, Thorntons and Goldsmiths are further examples of the type of store to be found in the town.

 

You will also find the major banks and building societies such as Barclays, HSBC, Halifax (HBOS), Nationwide, Nat West and Santander.

 

The Cirencester Charter Market can be found in the Market Place every Monday and Friday.

 

The Corn Hall redevelopment has brought new life with Made By Bob among the shops opening and the development of the old Post Office has created a new shopping area between Castle Street and Blank Jack Street.

 

Further Cirencester shopping information can be found on the Cirencester Shopping website.