York

Shambles

A medieval shopping street with overhanging timber-framed buildings, which was once a street of butchers. This is easily the most touristy street in York and is mostly devoted to eateries and gift shops. The most notable of the latter are a loose-leaf tea emporium, a popular artisan bakery, a sweet little chinaware shop and a crowded store dedicated to selling Harry Potter memorabilia.

Limited wheelchair access

Browns

A good quality family-run department store that has been trading in York for over 100 years, stocks most of the global fashion brands, and features large beauty, furniture, and handbag departments.

Mon-Sat 9:30AM-6PM, Sun 11AM-5PM

York Designer Outlet

Of particular interest to followers of fashion, this indoor shopping centre contains 120 clothes stores from many top-name brands such as Adidas, Calvin Klein, Fred Perry, GAP, Hugo Boss, Lacoste, Levi's, Nike, Ralph Lauren, Superdry and Ted Baker. The sweet-toothed will find a good selection of confectionery chains too: Cadbury, Haribo, Hotel Chocolat, Lindt...

Mon-Fri 10AM-6PM, Sat 9AM-7PM, Sun 10AM-6PM

Shambles Market

A permanent outdoor market with more than 85 stalls of which some sell fresh local produce, some ubiquitous world street food, others clothes and accessories, and others still arts, crafts, fabrics and ceramics.

Daily 7AM-5PM

York Farmers' Market

An excellent place to buy and discuss food, drink and crafts with local producers. Meat, eggs, organic veg, cheese, pies, fudge, honey, pottery, wool - it's all here.

First Fri of the month 9AM-4PM

Coney Street

Along with Parliament Street, this is the place in the city centre to head for the chain high street shops you can find all over the UK: Boots, H&M, TK Maxx, Zara et al.

Fossgate

Assorted specialist fashion shops selling bowler hats, smart gentlemen's outfits, and clothing and accessories specifically for tall women., which it leads onto, has a number of homeware stores, a cycling shop and a modelling shop.

Gillygate

Several interesting shops to fill your home with mementos of your time in York, plus an independent bookshop, cheesemonger and retro gaming store.

High Petergate and Low Petergate

A hub of small fashion and jewellery stores with a mix of high-end brand names and independents. Those with a sweet tooth should check out the Fudge Kitchen. At the point where the two Petergates meet is, where you'll find several fashionable independent retailers and the original House of Trembling Madness, which stocks 900 bottled beers.

Parliament Street

One of very few wide and straight roads in the centre is this very attractive tree-lined boulevard mostly home to larger chain stores such as Disney, M&S, and most high street banks and building societies. The row continues northwest onto the much narrower, which has high street fashion giants such as New Look, Pandora and Superdry.

Red House Antique Centre

The Red House is a historic building in the city centre of York, England. The house lies on Duncombe Place, on the corner of St Leonard's Place. Its site is believed to be that of the east gate of St Leonard's Hospital.

Topping & Company

1 Museum Street is a historic building in the city centre of York, England. The building was constructed in 1860 to a design by Rawlins Gould. It initially served as the city's register office.

Closed · opens 9 am tomorrow

The Great Yorkshire Sweet Shop

Church Street

Closed · opens 9:30 am tomorrow·Wheelchair accessible

Earworm Records

1 Powells Yard

Closed · opens 10 am tomorrow

Hebden Tea

21 Shambles

Closed · opens 10 am tomorrow

Little Apple Bookshop

13 High Petergate

Closed · opens 9:30 am tomorrow

Love Cheese

16 Gillygate

Closed · opens 10 am tomorrow

Portal Bookshop

5 Patrick Pool

Closed · opens 10 am tomorrow

Criminally Good Books

14 Colliergate

Closed · opens 10 am tomorrow

Vinyl Eddie

86 Tadcaster Rd

Wheelchair accessible

Antiques Centre York

41 Stonegate

Blue Tree Gallery

23 Bootham

Cocoa Works

10 Castlegate

Minster Gate Bookshop

8 Minster Gates

Monk Bar Chocolatiers

7 Shambles

Pyramid Gallery

43 Stonegate

The Amnesty Bookshop

19 Micklegate

The Braithwaite Gallery

42 Low Petergate

York Fine Arts

83 Low Petergate

Lucius Books

Micklegate