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Shops and markets · Bicester
Nash's Bakery, Sheep Street
The Sheep Street shop of Nash's, a family craft bakery that has baked in Bicester since 1929 and is now in its third generation, selling its own bread, cakes and savouries.
A Bicester bakery with a long local story, on the main shopping street. Worth a stop for bread or a snack on a walk round the old town; its hours are best checked before you make a special trip.
- Good: A family craft bakery, baking in Bicester since 1929
- Good: Bread, cakes and savouries from its own bakery in the town
- Worth knowing: Opening hours for the Sheep Street shop are not published
About
Nash's Bakery is a family craft bakery with a shop at 28 Sheep Street, in the centre of Bicester. The bread, cakes and savouries come from its own bakery in the town, and it has other shops in the town, in Oxford and in Chipping Norton.
The story starts with Will Nash, who left his family's farm at 13 to be apprenticed to a baker in Aylesbury in 1917. In Oxford he sold Oxford lardy cakes from a market stall, and in April 1929 he and his wife, Winifred, opened a bakery shop in the heart of Bicester. The business moved its baking to larger premises on Priory Road in 1949, and in 1986 Will's sons Graham and Trevor became National Hovis Bread Champions. Will died in 2007, aged 103, having helped in the bakery well into his nineties. The bakery says the third generation of the family still bakes today.
Since 2011 the family has also run the Isla Jane Bakery, named after Will's great-granddaughter, with stalls at 22 markets a week across Oxfordshire and the neighbouring counties.
The details
- History
- Baking in Bicester since 1929
Location
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Premier Inn Bicester
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Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Biagio the Jewellers, Bicester 0.1 km away
- Vue Bicester 0.1 km away
- Bicester Green, Sheep Street 0.1 km away
- Coles Books, Bicester 0.1 km away
Sights nearby
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Bicester Market Square
Sight · Historic building · Bicester
The old market place at the centre of Bicester, where the town's market was granted in 1239, lined with listed houses such as No. 47 of 1698 with its oval-windowed tower. The Friday market is on Sheep Street beside it, and the square is due to be remade.
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St Edburg's Church, Bicester
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Bicester's Grade I parish church, grown from a Norman church with a central tower into the big Perpendicular church of today. Inside are brasses from about 1500, Georgian monuments by Scheemakers, Wilton and Westmacott, and a Morris & Co. window of 1866.
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Garth Park, Bicester
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Bicester's town park: about 9 acres of lawns, specimen trees and formal beds round Garth House, a Victorian hunting lodge given to the town in 1946. It has the 1732 bell of the old Town Hall, a bandstand, a café and play areas, a few minutes from Market Square.
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Bicester Village
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