Local Markets & Shopping: The nearest shopping town is Barnstaple (10.5 Miles) with large out of town supermarkets that compliment town centre shopping. Barnstaple has a thriving Pannier Market with local farmers market on a Friday. Barnstaple is renowned for "Butchers Row" a street full of specialist butchers, fishmongers and delicatessens. Along with the traditional shops are all the usual chain stores, Marks and Spencer and Green Lanes shopping arcade.

South Molton boasts a small, but excellent, chocolate factory and Quince Honey Farm. The town has many antique & curio shops, several tearooms and a massive farmer's hypermarket selling everything from green wellies to tractors and is worth a visit .