St Ives on Market Day - May 2025

Today is market day in St Ives. For nearly 1,000 years the wide centre of St Ives, now know as Market Hill has hosted some of the largest markets in England. Today the street market still fills the town centre. On Monday's however the market swells to fill almost the entire town with traders coming from all over the country to sell their wares to the thousands of people who attend under the watchful eye of Oliver Cromwell, one time resident of the town, who's statue stands in the centre of the Market Place.

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