Market Square Bakery,Higham Ferrers

Market Square Bakery has traded on the market square in Higham Ferrers since 1984, a small independent bakery in one of Northamptonshire's older market towns. It bakes bread, buns, doughnuts, cakes and pastries on site, and does a steady trade in filled rolls and savouries to a regular local following. The shop is compact, and its popularity means queues are not unusual at busy times, particularly on market days. It is a single-shop operation rather than a branch of a larger bakery group, and has become enough of a local fixture to take on sponsorship of the nearby football club. Higham Ferrers itself, with its medieval church and college buildings, draws a modest passing trade that the bakery serves alongside its regulars. Opening is daytime, and stock tends to sell through, so earlier visits give the widest choice.