5 Best Places to Shop in Yorkshire, England

With five showrooms on three floors of a Georgian town house, this antiques mecca sells furniture, jewelry, ceramics, coins, vintage fashion, Lalique glass, militaria, and collectibles—Roman, Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian, Art Deco, and more—from more than 120 dealers, who display their wares in "cabinets."

Housed in a grand mid-19th-century former mercantile exchange—a historically significant, Grade 1–listed building—this glass-roofed, oval shopping mall has independent boutiques, laid-back restaurants, and specialty stores across three levels.

This beautiful Edwardian arcade, a Grade 1–listed building, hosts one of Europe's largest indoor markets, with some 800 stalls offering everything from fresh food to fashion jewelry to housewares. There's also an Asian bazaar every Wednesday and a farmers' market on Sunday.

This bookshop in a Georgian town house is on a street formerly known as Bookland Lane, a location that has been associated with bookselling since 1580. It sells secondhand and antiquarian books as well as new children's books, illustrated editions, old maps, and prints, largely of Yorkshire in general and York in particular.

Notable for the soaring glass-covered arches of its beautiful restored, turn-of-the-century shopping arcades supplemented by some contemporary ones, this stylish shopping district combines 19th-century design and 21st-century style.