Plan Your Visit

Access

The venue is St Helen and St Katharine which is a school on Faringdon Road. There is disabled access throughout the ground floor where the show will be held and there are disabled toilets within the building.

Nut and Sesame Free Area

Please note that the school is a nut and sesame free area.  There will be nothing of this nature available at the Tea Tent and we request that products which could present a risk are not opened within the site.

Free Parking 

There is parking at the venue which is available at no charge for the time you are visiting the show only. Please do not leave your car there afterwards as it may get locked in. Turn into the main St Helen and St Katharine gates on Faringdon Road and turn left to find plenty of parking facing the tennis courts. After leaving your vehicle walk back towards the school and follow the signage to the entrance tent.

Dogs

Dogs are not allowed in the event unless they are registered assistance dogs working with their human partner,  or are on a training exercise and properly identified.

Finding us using SATNAV or W3W

The main school gates have the postcode OX14 1BE or W3W ///many.unframed.suits

Travelling to Us Sustainably

There are bike racks in the car park area.

There are bus stops on Faringdon Road. The "44" leaves Oxford and comes via Faringdon Road to reach Abingdon town centre (same in reverse).

https://livebustimes.org/line/r-gcp-oxfordbus-bus-44

Driving to St Helen and St Katharine

From the North and Oxford via the A34.

We suggest that you do not come off at the Abingdon North junction – there is a lot of traffic disruption because of the works to that area.

Instead continue down to the Marcham Interchange (Miele is close to the roundabout as well as Fairacres Retail Park – they are both shown on Google maps if you zoom in enough) where the A415 crosses the A34.

From the South via the A34 – also come off at the Marcham Interchange (described above).

Head into Abingdon (first exit if you were travelling southbound; third exit if you were travelling northbound).

You will be moving up the Marcham Road towards Abingdon town centre. There are two roundabouts where you need to head straight across (2nd exit).You will pass McDonalds, the Police Station, the Community Hospital.

At the double mini roundabout outside the White Horse Pub, turn left (1^st exit) into Spring Road.

At the end of Spring Road, it meets Faringdon Road at a small roundabout.

For the school car park turn left into Faringdon Road and use the second of the two entrance gates. This is the car park to use if you are a ticket holder, visitor intending to buy a ticket or a craftworker arriving to unload at the venue.

If you are a craftworker arriving for a trading day and looking for the exhibitor parking, then please turn right into Faringdon Road and look for the Wantage House car park on the left. (Download further information and photos below.)

From the M40.

If coming from the North come off at Junction 9 and head south on the A34, then follow the directions above.

If coming from the South up the M40, the A329 across country through Stadhampton, then the A415 through the lights at Clifton Hampden and into Abingdon passing Culham Campus on your right is a pleasant route out of rush hour but allow time for the 20 mile an hour zones in all the villages which can make it rather slow. You may find it easier to carry on up to Oxford and use the Eastern By Pass (passing Cowley) to bring you round to the A34. You will then head south and follow the directions above.

If you are coming from the area to the West of Abingdon, finding Shippon village and then following the Faringdon Road into Abingdon puts you right on the road where the school is and you will see it on your left not long after you have crossed over the bridge over the A34.