Saturday 27 October is the date of Hexham Spook Night, one of the biggest events of the year when Hexham is transformed into all things spooky. This fantastic family event attracts thousands of people into the town, many of them in fancy dress. However, to allow for the set up of a variety of rides on the Market Place, Hexham Farmers’ Market will finish at the earier time of 12 noon.

We’re encouraging our traders to be there early and we strongly encourage both our regular and occasional customers to be there early. We look forward to seeing yourt there between 9am and 12noon.

You can find more information on Spook Night here.

Any Market Manager fears a poor weather forecast and when you get messages from your traders in the run-up to a market asking if the market is likely to go ahead, you pay extra attention to the forecast! When you then find the day is likely to wet but not too windy, you set your expectations accordingly and hope for the best.

Our Apple Day on 13 October was in the middle of the weekend when Storm Calum was in the news, but turned out to be an excellent day, despite the damp. Yes, it rained; yes, people got very wet, but our wonderful customers came anyway and supported their local farmers’ market.

Our friends from Transition Tynedale did a stirling job turning the apple glut into bottles and bottles of delicious apple juice, Ros from Rookhope had her apple knowledge tested and provided customers with information and, crucially, names for their mystery apple varieties and everyone actually had a pretty good time! And when you get a wide variety of stallholders tell you they’re done well, you know the day was a success!