What’s On

April’s market has spring in its sights. Enjoy seasonal dishes by our market chefs including Oz at Meze Turka with shakshuka sauces, homemade hummus or fresh baklava as a sweet treat. Early fruit and vegetables start to appear and new pies and tarts celebrate seasonal ingredients. Over 60 stalls due to attend.

The Creake Abbey Spring Gift Fair, the first of three due to be held in 2025, welcomes local artists, makers, producers and creators of all kinds. This fantastic celebration of artistic talent from across Norfolk features 80 stalls with everything from jewellery to antiques and a further 10 stands with food and drink. Free entry, free parking.

May’s market celebrates patisserie and baking generally. The market is fortunate to have some of Norfolk’s best bakers in attendance and we draw your attention to the following; Hestia Patisserie in the Grain Store, The Welly Boot Bakery in the Tin Barn, Peppy Neds in the Main Barn (passion fruit cups and lemon meringue tarts pictured) and Cardarelli’s Cakery outside by the pond. All are passionate and dedicated bakers and their creations are sure to brighten your day.

This much-loved horticultural event, now celebrating its eighteenth year at Creake Abbey, will return on Saturday 17th May 2025. We look forward to welcoming you to view around 30 specialist plant nurseries where you can buy direct from the plantsmen and women and ask any questions that you may have.

The June farmers’ market brings our dairy producers to the fore. Norton’s Dairy, family owned and run offers fresh milk, cream and soft cheese or visit Son of Christie Cheesemonger for a selection of Norfolk and East Anglian cheeses including Mrs Temple’s Cheese, Baron Bigod or St Jude. This stand also carries Bray’s Cottage Pork Pies which cannot be beaten!

Summer Brocante with a good mix of antique & vintage sellers with an average of 70 plus exhibitors at each event. The organiser also invites selected local artisans and food to go stalls.   Entry is £3 per person (under 14s go free). No additional parking charges.

July is riot of soft fruits and fresh veggies - come and discover Old Coach House Fruit, a family farm near King’s Lynn, with homegrown raspberries, blackcurrants, gooseberries, herbs, preserves and more in the Main Barn. Fresh flowers from Pulvertoft Flowers or pasture reared eggs from Glovers Farm! This is the time of year for summer pudding and evening get-togethers.

Following the success of last summer’s outdoor theatre, the Moving Parts Theatre Company returns to present Vanity Fair - staged in the beautiful setting of Creake Abbey ruins.

Coastal Health & Wellbeing (Wells Community Hospital Trust) is holding its fifth family fun day and dog show at Creake Abbey to raise funds to support its coastal community in living happier and healthier lives. You can expect dog shows, arts and crafts stalls, doggy trade stands and activities for children. Live music all day.

August’s market is all about picnics on the beach - sausage rolls, bread sticks, hummus, berries, apple juice and so much more. Come and collect everything you will need from our one-stop-shop farmers’ market - the biggest and best in Norfolk!

The Creake Abbey Summer Gift Fair is the second of three due to be held in 2025. Over 90 stands celebrating Norfolk’s creative prowess where you will find artists of all kinds including jewellers, painters, needlecrafters, felters and many producers of fine goods including candles and wax melts, garments, fashion accessories, food and treats for four legged friends. Free entry, free parking.

This September we are celebrating our bread at the farmers’ market. One of our oldest and most loyal producers is Bread Source from Norwich with sourdough, morning goods and pastries. Have you discovered Loaf Microbakery in the Grain Store with sourdough focaccia or cardamom buns or Aish Bakery in the Main Barn with Jewish pastries and morning goods?

Autumn Brocante with a good mix of antique & vintage sellers with an average of 70 plus exhibitors at each event held indoors and outdoors at Creake Abbey. The organiser also invites selected local artisans and food to go stalls.   Entry is £3 per person (under 14s go free). No additional parking charges.

October’s market is all about fresh meat - Bates Moor Farm returns after the summer with grass fed beef from Foulsham or The Gobbling Turkey, a small Norfolk farm, has lamb or boned and stuffed chicken. We are delighted to have Primrose Farm Meats attend with fresh pork and pork sausages. For a few years now Owie’s Big Black Piggy Porkers has provided hot pork burgers or pork and bacon baps to visitors and this stand remains one of our most popular with all meat reared on the family farm.

Norfolk is famous for its malting barley and we have been fortunate to have Panther Brewery with us for many years as a top quality artisan microbrewer. Panther’s bottle conditioned ales are award winning and use traditional brewing techniques to create a range of sleek, modern and full flavour real ales available in seven different breeds. In addition we are fortunate to have award-winning Burn Valley Vineyard just across the road who bring their sparkling, red, rose and white wines to the market each month. Make November the month you try some of the best beer and wine Norfolk has to offer.

The Creake Abbey Christmas Gift Fair is the final such event of three held in 2025. Over 80 stands celebrating Norfolk’s creative prowess where you will find artists of all kinds including jewellers, painters, needlecrafters, felters and many producers of fine goods including candles and wax melts, garments, fashion accessories, food and treats for four legged friends.

The first of two Christmas Farmers’ Markets where you can pick up foodie gifts, order meat for collection, shop for treats and solve all your stocking issues from Creake Abbey’s resident shops. We are proud to host two outstanding chocolatiers; Hunters Chocolate and Emporium Norwich. Both have fabulous stories so do look out for them and talk to the creators.

Whether you are looking for a real Christmas tree from THF Countryside or a spectacular patisserie tree as pictured look no further than the final Farmers’ Market of the year! In addition to our regular food and drink producers we welcome a carefully curated number of gift stands to help with the final push towards 25th December and the celebrations to come. Thank you for your wonderful support throughout 2025!