Saturday 13th August 2011

The historic market town of Clitheroe is nestled between the famous Pendle Hill and the grandeur of the Forest of Bowland, lying at the heart of beautiful Ribble Valley.

In 2010 Clitheroe was named ‘Lancashire’s Food Town’ due to the area’s long heritage of farming and range of high quality food businesses, many of which have been run by the same families for generations. More recently, Clitheroe and the food offer in Ribble Valley has been celebrated as part of the award winning Ribble Valley Food Trail, which has attracted thousands of ‘foodies’ from across the UK and abroad to come and sample our local delicacies.

Clitheroe has recently been voted Official Food Town of Lancashire and it’s not surprising given the superb choice and outstanding quality of the towns dining experiences and venues!

This Christmas you will be spoilt  for  choice as you treat yourself, friends and family to some of the best festive food experiences in the Ribble Valley.

Relax and unwind whilst doing your Christmas shopping in a selection of wonderful venues such as the Exchange Coffee Company on Wellgate with its sumptuous selection of coffees and teas from around the world. Soak up the original Victorian ambiance in this little gem of a place and transport yourself back in time the authentic ambiance of a Victorian tea room!

Molly’s on Moor Lane will be serving a very special Christmas menu in December with a delicious range of hot soups, cakes and chefs specials to warm any chills!

Apricot Meringue on King Street also is one of Clitheroe’s favourite cafes to relax and enjoy a great range of teas, coffees and mince pies!

Visit The Emporium where you can always find the best service, comfortable surroundings and a boundless array of cappuccinos, coffee, teas and great food served all day. The wine bar and brassiere is a great place to meet up with friends.

Maxwell’s is also famous for it’s attention to detail, outstanding customer service and wide range of delicious food for all the family. Indulge yourself in their cakes, patisseries, cookies and probably the best afternoon teas in the area. Maxwell’s also will be hosting great live music nights throughout December so you can dine in style and be entertained by top vocalists.

The Penny Black Restaurant at The Post House Hotel is a charming and elegant venue to host a great family or romantic night out. Offering a superb Christmas selection of evening meals and lunches it is one of the most popular restaurants in town.

No trip to Clitheroe this Christmas time would be complete without visiting Cowman’s World Famous Sausage and Butchers Shop. The award winning family butchers offers a sizzling choice of over one hundred mouth watering sausages to make your Christmas dinner sizzle in style!

Clitheroe Chippy is open all over the Christmas season serving delicious fish and chips, award winning pies and the best chip butties in Lancashire!

Why not combine your shopping trip with a visit to the Grand Venue and enjoy a show and dining experience – all in once place! Serving only fresh food, Taste @ The Grand is a place to stimulate the senses and deepen friendships in a venue like no other. Set at the rear of the auditorium, Taste  is ideally positioned to serve the public throughout the day while being able to enjoy live music and see behind the scenes of a live music venue. It also hasten iMac computers connected to the internet, free to use for customers!

Clitheroe Castle Atrium Café is also a great location to watch the hustle and bustle of the town below, with a stunning castle top view of Christmas in Clitheroe.  There is a special festive menu being served throughout December.

Not forgetting the wonderful range of  outstanding dining establishments on the outskirts of town including multi award winning Northcote Manor for a very special Christmas & New Year dining experience. For those special Christmas  Sunday lunches The Three Fishes is always a great treat.

The Rose & Crown is one of Clitheroe’s best loved pubs and will be serving traditional favourites and great live music throughout December.  Clitheroe’s other great pubs and bars include The Swan & Royal, The White Lion and The Inn @ The Station all serving the best beers and cheers across the festive season!

As the night moves on, keep the party spirit going with a Christmas cocktail at Carlitos.  For the ultimate party night out visit  Key Street Live Music venue where live bands will be playing the best party sounds until late and keeping everyone dancing into the new year!

So cheers everybody and let’s eat, drink and be merry this Christmas in Clitheroe!

CLITHEROE  FINE   FOOD  & CRAFT  STREET   MARKET

Castle Street, Saturday August 14th 2010

9.00am – 5.00pm

Clitheroe Chamber of Trade and Commerce will be celebrating Clitheroe town’s new status as official food capital of Lancashire on Saturday August 14 with a Fine Foods and Craft Street Market.

Clitheroe Fine Food & Craft Street Market will be filled with an eclectic mix of the very best of Clitheroe & the Ribble Valley’s local producers providing fresh locally grown & produced artisan food & drink treats.

The theme of the street market will be essentially local  artisan fine food and crafts,  unique bespoke arts & crafts and gifts and a superb choice of fresh foods and home baking, hot hog roasts, sizzling sausages,cute cupcakes, artisan breads,  delicious cheeses, jams and preserves, meats, organic fruit and vegetables, home grown honey and a wonderful array of tempting treats for all the family to indulge and enjoy!

Over 40 stalls will tempt your taste buds with a mouth watering array of delicacies and culinary delights including:

• Cowmans World Famous Sausages
• Woods Craft Bakers Artisan Bread
• Martasha
• Ribblesdale Rotary
• La Locanda
• The Stable Trading Co
• Piccolinos
• Brioche of Wellgate
• The Little Cake Stall
• Food Hero Tours & Buns of Bowland
• Atrium Cafe Hog Roast
• Key Street  – Jack Daniels BBQ & Live Harley Davidson Roadshow
• King Henry VI English Spring Water
• Bowland Beer
• Molly’s Cafe
• Castle Chippy
• Shirleys Homemade Pies
• Susan’s Farmhouse Fudge
• Park Farm Tea Rooms of Ramsbottom
• Seasons Of Clitheroe
• Genesis Hair & Beauty
• Clitheroe Fair Trade Group
• Fitzpatricks Traditional Drinks
• The Inn At The Station
• The Rose & Crown Beer Garden
• Ribble Valley Radio Live
• Craftstastic & C Beebies Bizi Lizi
• Longridge Natural Dairy Ice Cream
• Coco & Me
• Sainsbury’s Taste The Difference
• Reedy’s Naturally
• Cheesy Tchaikovsky
• Phoenix Cards & Gifts
• Lilybet Cakes
• The Grand Venue
• Harrison & Kerr Butchers
• Sawley Art Group
• The Coach & Horses, Bolton-by-Bowland
• Aphrodite
• Backridge Farm
• Farmer’s Wife Preserves
• Lancashire Pasty Company
• Mydas Touch
• Platform Gallery
• Pots ‘n’ Pies
• Twyn Ghyll
• The Little Cake Stall
• Era Photography
• And many more!

Clitheroe’s iconic Market will be co-ordinating a host of activities, INCLUDING A SPECIAL APPEARANCE BY BRITAINS BEST CHEF & OWNER OF THE FABULOUS NORTHCOTE MANOR- NIGEL HAWORTH!

Nigel will be discussing ‘Seasonality’ and advising on the best fruit & veg – fresh from our very own market & how to get the best out of them for the summer season! A must see and exclusive one to one special moment with Nigel Howarth – live at the Market.

LIVE MUSIC & FACE PAINTING and food related fun – look out for Little Jimmy Clitheroe Jr who will be making surprise appearances throughout the day at Jimmy Clitheroes Cafe!

There will  be a fantastic PRIZE Winning Mad Hatter Tea Party Fancy Dress Competition at The Rose & Crown Beer Garden from 2pm onwards

Giddy Up! It's The Clitheroe Cowboys !

Theme is Mad Hatter Tea Party & Foody Fun – Dress to impress!!

Dressed To Impress - The Medieval Babes!

The Queen Of Hearts will tempt you with her tarts!

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Castle Street will be closed to all traffic on Saturday 14th August from 6am to 6 pm to accommodate the street market

Road Directions

From the M6 junction 31, follow signs for the A59 Clitheroe. Enter from the A671 and follow the signs and diversions for Town Centre Parking. Please note Castle Street will be closed off to vehicles and therefore diversion signs will be in place all day on 14 August.

Public Transport Directions

Nearest railway station Clitheroe.

Nearest bus station Clitheroe. For timetable information please contact the Clitheroe Visitor Information Centre on 01200 425566.

PR and Publicity Campaign

We have a high profile local PR & Marketing activity campaign to support the event.

See local press for more details and our press archive below,

www.clitheroeinbusiness.com will be featuring regular updates, along with Facebook, Flickr and Twitter pages.

Twitter

Follow us at:  ClitheroeFoody

Web Sites:

www.clitheroeinbusiness.co.uk

www.penninelancashirefestivals.com

www.visitlancashire.com

www.visitribblevalley.com

www.enjoyengland.com

www.foodnw.co.uk

www.thegrandvenue.com

Recent Press Coverage

LIVE  RIBBLE  VALLEY  MAGAZINE – JUNE  2010

CLITHEROE   ADVERTISER  & TIMES   June 17th 2010

Lancashire Telegraph  Weds June 16th 2010

Taste@The Grand be hosting an afternoon of live interactive cookery demonstrations, tasters, samples and a cup cake workshop for children.

Clitheroe Market are co-ordinating a host of activities and food related fun there.  There will also be related art & craft activities going on at The Platform Gallery. And look out for the medieval reenactment at The Castle & Museum!

Your taste buds will be treated to a delightful array of the finest produce in the Ribble Valley and a host of local food & drink producers, top chefs and award winning food gurus will be joining the celebration!

Make it a whole day out with all the family – so much to taste, see and enjoy!

If you love food and you love Clitheroe – do not miss this great day out!

Castle Street will be closed to all traffic on Saturday 14th August to accommodate the street market –  this applies from 6am – 6pm

Road Directions

From the M6 junction 31, follow signs for the A59 Clitheroe. Enter from the A671 and follow the signs and diversions for Town Centre Parking.Please note Castle Street will be closed off to vehicles and therefore diversion signs will be in place all day on 14 August.

Further announcements and a full event schedule and line up will be announced shortly.

For further information please contact:

Samantha Turner,

Street Market Event & Project Co-ordinator

Fern Court Business Centre on: 01200 429 717

or email: samturner@ferncourt.co.uk

For Press & PR / Street Market Event Management please contact:

Pearl Mina

PR & Media Creative.

Tel: 07901 696 490

 Or Email: pearlminapr@googlemail.com

Clitheroe Fine Food & Crafts Street Market 2010

Organised & supported by:

Clitheroe Chamber of Trade & Commerce

Ribble Valley Borough Council

Ribble Valley Strategic Partnership

Lancashire County Council – Revitalising Town Centres Initiative

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Grateful Thanks to all our members at Clitheroe Chamber of Trade & Commerce, especially our generous supporters for taking part in our special event brochure, our banner sponsors & all our voluntary helpers.

Our thanks also go to the kind generosity and food & drink donations & hospitality provided  for our press Launch & VIP at The Rose & Crown.

Our roll call of honour & thanks goes  to:

Clitheroe Chamber of Trade & Commerce Members

Nigel Haworth

Ribble Valley Inns

Cowmans World Famous Sausage Shop

Barclays

Park Farm Tea Rooms

Brioche

Ian Sowerbutts

Sainsburys Taste The Difference

Exchange Coffee Co

La Locanda

HSBC

Mortimers

Dawsons

Genesis

King Henry VI English Spring Water

Taste @ The Grand

The Rose & Crown

Fern Court Business Centre

Genesis

Clitheroe Social Club

John Houldsworth Solicitors

Key Street Music Venue

John Turner, Independent Financial Advisor

Design 360

Ribblesdale Rotary

St Michaels & St John RC Church

St James School

The Grand Venue

Ribble Valley Radio

Clitheroe Advertiser & Times

Live Ribble Valley Magazine

Radio Lancashire

Pearl Mina PR & Media Creative

Samantha Turner

Emma Turner

Little Jimmy Clitheroe Jr

Cllr Michael Ranson

Rebecca Kay

Melissa Watts

Chris Hughes

Syd Chamley

Theresa Robson

Roland Hailwood

James Russell

Kaye Mathew Northcote Group

Peter Moore

Gemma Vaughan

Jamila Mulla Hounslow

Phil & Bev Knight  - KeyStreet

Cliff Cowburn

Ian Lloyd

Nigel & Sarah – Rose & Crown Hotel

Clitheroe Police

Our Volunteer Marshalls & Stewards

Made in Lancashire

Food North West