Market day
Crickhowell Artisan Market, this Sunday, 10am to 4pm
6 miles away, and the nearest market in the next 14 days. Abergavenny Country Market is next on Tuesday 10 November, 9am to 4pm.
Hearabouts, by email soon
What’s on · Buy local · Markets · Groups & clubs
Things to do, independent businesses, groups and markets in and around Abergavenny.
Every one you choose keeps more money, work and opportunity close to home.
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Market day
6 miles away, and the nearest market in the next 14 days. Abergavenny Country Market is next on Tuesday 10 November, 9am to 4pm.
In the shops
Flowers, Plants & Gardening
Katherine runs Bramble & Bombus Flower Farm from her family's hillside farm at Gilwern, within the Brecon Beacons…
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Preserves, Pickles & Ferments
Sorai makes plant-based sauces and cooking pastes inspired by the flavours of Borneo. The Bori range covers savoury…
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Honey & Bee Products
Wildflower summer honey in 8oz, 12oz and 1lb jars, alongside locally bred honey bees and hives built from…
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Also here: Perry Orchard Farm Ltd, Callender's Farm, Black Welsh Lamb.
Local Meat, Eggs & Seafood
Perry Orchard Farm Ltd is an orchard in Abergavenny.
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Fresh Produce & Growers
Callender's Farm near Abergavenny specialises in breeding heritage Bourbon Red turkeys, selling turkey poults and Christmas…
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Farm Shops & Local Retail
Organic Black Welsh Mountain lamb, grass and hay fed, raised at Pen y Wyrlod farm on…
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The money
What a tenner spent with a local independent can be worth to the town before it leaves. Totnes has measured what that means in practice: somebody counted the shopkeepers, growers and makers, and worked out what the town keeps.
Totnes figures
Source: Economic Blueprint for Totnes & District, local food & drink section (2013). Choosing local isn’t charity. It’s one of the ways we decide what our towns get to keep.
What we stand for
Why buy from a Abergavenny independent?
When the bread, the veg or the birthday present comes from someone who lives here, the money goes round the town again before it leaves.
Shop local · Eat local · Join in
Why this page exists
A place is made by its local people and the independent businesses, groups, clubs, markets, activities and networks they create. Yet much of this local life is hard to find, scattered across word of mouth, social media, small websites, noticeboards and people’s memories.
Understead exists to make what’s local easier to see, easier to find and easier to take part in. What you see is the understead: the smaller, independent and community life of your town that can otherwise be remarkably easy to miss.
Every time you buy locally, join a group, recommend a place or share this page, you’re taking part in local life, and you make it easier for the next person to find.
Further down this page
Shops and makers
Wanted in Abergavenny
Nobody has listed yet for microgreens, gourmet mushrooms, cheese & dairy, baking, tea, coffee & confectionery, drinks, brewing & distilling, herbs & botanicals, ceramics, pottery & glass, jewellery & accessories, wood, metal & fine craft, textiles, knitwear & fibre, art, prints & stationery, candles, soap & home fragrance, homewares & gifts, health, beauty & wellbeing, zero waste & eco household and pet products. That doesn’t mean nobody’s doing it. It means they’re not on here.
Know one? Add them →
Find local teachers, classes, workshops and experiences around Abergavenny, from yoga and pottery to music, cookery, dance and outdoor skills.
Pottery Classes
Melanie Made Mud teaches throwing on the wheel from a home studio on Llanelly Hill, in the valleys above Abergavenny. A two-hour taster covers preparing and…
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Art Classes
Jantien Powell and her daughter Tirza Snook run Chapel Cottage Studio at Llanddewi Rhydderch, four miles from Abergavenny, teaching art classes and workshops to all abilities.…
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Martial Arts
Molly Jones runs Synergy Energetics from Govilon, outside Abergavenny, drawing on more than twenty years in Chinese energy arts and bodywork. She teaches Wing Chun kung…
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Dance Classes
Geraldine Harris School of Dance is a dance school in Abergavenny.
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Yoga
Coral Hamze teaches yoga and Thai yoga massage from Studio 360, a recently refurbished space in Abergavenny, Gwent. Her classes include Hatha yoga using a FeetUp…
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Dance Classes
Revolution Dance is a dance school in Abergavenny.
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Horse Riding Lessons
Dewicwrt Riding School is a riding school in Abergavenny.
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Market day
Weekly · Tuesday · 9am-4pm
Next: Tuesday 10 November, 9am to 4pm
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Recommend a market → Invite the organiser → Run a market? List it free → Already here? Update your market →
Markets and food hubs list on Understead free, forever.
Trade counter
Tell us what you need. Producers within range reply straight to you by email: no browsing, no middleman, no fee.
When more suppliers match than one request can go to, those on paid plans are sent it first.
Around Abergavenny
Abergavenny is your starting point, not your boundary.
Local doesn't stop at the town sign. The growers, makers, markets and clubs in the villages and towns around Abergavenny are part of the same local life. Open a neighbouring town's page to see who's there, or put in your postcode, choose how far you're happy to travel, and search everything local within that distance: shops and producers, classes, what's on, groups and markets.
Neighbouring town pages
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Reader questions
Independent businesses, classes and activities, groups and clubs, markets, and what’s on in and around Abergavenny. Understead brings together the local things that are otherwise scattered across websites, social media and word of mouth, so they’re easier to find and discover. There are 13 independent businesses and 1 market listed here so far, alongside local groups and organiser-published dates.
Local life doesn’t stop at the town boundary. Understead follows the useful local catchment around Abergavenny, so relevant places in nearby towns and villages can appear here too. Each result tells you where it is, and the Nearby search lets you enter your own postcode and decide how far you want to look.
Use Add something local to tell us about a business, class, group, market or event we’re missing. If you run it yourself, use the appropriate listing or organiser route there. If it’s already on Understead, use its claim or update option where available.
Businesses can show their own website, phone, social channels, enquiry and booking links. Understead doesn’t get between you and the business. Where a business has opened a Shop here, you can also buy through Understead.
Eligible businesses can list free. Understead charges no listing fees and takes 0% sales commission on Shop sales. Shop and Trade subscriptions are optional and pay for extra tools, not a cut of each sale. Normal payment-processing fees may still apply when an online payment is taken.
Not on this page: nothing here is ordered by who pays, and adverts sit in their own marked spaces. Paying never puts a business into results it doesn’t belong in. In search, where several businesses match equally well, one on a paid plan can be listed above a free one.