Hey Neighbour,
I’ve spent the last few weeks tracking down every Christmas market, craft fair, and festive pop up across Camden, Islington, Haringey, Barnet, Brent and Enfield. November through January. We’re spoiled for choice. Tiny church hall sales in Muswell Hill. A 120 maker ceramics market in Highgate. Enough on to fill every weekend between now and New Year with handmade gifts and mulled wine.
None of this would exist without you. So many of you filled in the form to tell me about markets I’d never have found on my own. Thank you.
This list is still growing. I’m adding events as I find them, so if you know one I’ve missed, tell me. What’s below should keep you busy right through to New Year.
Some of these will pop up again in the weekly newsletter as reminders. I wanted everything in one place, so you can plan ahead instead of hearing about the perfect market the day after it’s finished.
Hunting for presents. Supporting local makers. Wandering somewhere festive with a warm drink in hand. It’s all here.
Happy browsing!
— Maryam
NOVEMBER
Love Your N21 Christmas Market | 📍The Sidings, Winchmore Hill, N21 | 8 November | Free
A community Christmas market next to Winchmore Hill train station, local creatives and small businesses selling handmade gifts with live music and food. 10am to 3pm.
Good Housekeeping Live & Country Living Christmas Market | 📍Business Design Centre, Islington, N1 | 11 - 14 November | (£)
Four days of artisan sellers at the Business Design Centre, with hundreds of makers selling handmade gifts alongside food tastings, celebrity talks and craft workshops. Self-gifting is actively encouraged. Apparently Mary Portas, Clare Balding and the Oliver sisters were all spotted leaving with full bags last year.
Arkley Christmas Bazaar | 📍St Peter’s Church, Arkley, EN5 | 14 November | Free
Arkley is a tiny village tucked behind Barnet that most North Londoners have never visited, all country lanes and an ancient church. Every November the community fills that church with Christmas stalls, gifts, food, a raffle and tombola.
Christmas Craft Market at Oliver Tambo Pavilion | 📍Oliver Tambo Recreation Ground, N22 | 14 November | Free
Local artists, makers and designers selling handmade gifts at the pavilion on Albert Road, mulled wine and festive music alongside. 10.30am to 4pm.
Friends of Pax Lodge Christmas Bazaar | 📍Pax Lodge World Centre, NW3 | 14 November | Free
Pax Lodge is a World Centre for Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, used as a base by Guiding units from across the world when they visit London. Their fourth annual Christmas Bazaar fills it with stalls from Guiding units and outside vendors selling handmade decorations and gifts, Christmas guitar music, a raffle, food and children’s crafts and activities. Many of the units are raising money for travel and community projects. 11am to 3pm.
Crafty Fox Christmas Market at the British Library | 📍British Library, NW1 | 14 - 15 November | Free
Same Crafty Fox, different venue. This one is inside the British Library, 40 independent makers each day selling jewellery, ceramics, fashion, art prints and homeware, with Origin Coffee on site and the British Library shop’s bookish finds alongside. Worth combining with the new Agatha Christie exhibition if you haven’t booked that yet. Saturday 10am to 5pm, Sunday 11am to 5pm.
Wood Green Christmas Market | 📍Wood Green Market, N22 | Every Saturday 21 November - 20 December | Free
Wood Green’s Saturday market goes festive every weekend through December, with an extra date on Sunday 20th. A different selection of Christmas sellers each week. 11am to 5pm.
Handmade in Highgate | 📍Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution, N6 | 20 - 22, 27 - 29 November | Free
A curated maker fair tucked into one of Highgate’s most characterful buildings, jewellery, ceramics, textiles and prints from independent artists across two weekends. Pairs well with a village wander after.
Muswell Hill Creatives Winter Makers Fair | 📍St James Square, Muswell Hill, N10 | 21 November | Free
Muswell Hill Creatives are a collective of local independent artists, designers and makers, and their winter fair fills St James Square with art, homewares and accessories, all made by the people selling them. 10.30am to 4pm.
Finchley WI Frost Fair | 📍Finchley Women’s Institute, N3 | 22 November | Free
Finchley Women’s Institute have been running their Frost Fair for 15 years, over 40 stalls of handmade seasonal gifts and treats from local artisans at affordable prices. 10.30am to 4.30pm.
Indie Jewellers Christmas Market | 📍Abney Hall, Stoke Newington, N16 | 21 - 22 November | Free
65 independent jewellers in one room, everything from everyday silver pieces to one-off designs in Murano glass and freshwater pearls. You’re buying straight from the people who made it, so there’s usually a story behind most things on the table.
Christmas Under the Canopy | 📍West Handyside Canopy, N1C | 20 November - 23 December | Free
Canopy Market’s Christmas edition runs every Tuesday to Sunday until 23 December, over 50 independent makers, artists and designers under festive lights at King’s Cross. Hot masala chai, mulled wine, craft beer and natural wine, live music through the season spanning jazz, blues, folk and traditional Irish, and gifts covering everything from jewellery and homewares to children’s toys and pet presents. Stays open until 8pm on Thursdays and Fridays if you want to go after work.
Danish Christmas Bazaar | 📍Danish YWCA, Hampstead, NW3 | 28 - 29 November | (£)
Hampstead’s Danish community throws open its doors for the annual Julebasar, smørrebrød, gløgg and æbleskiver in the café, a proper hotdog stand, and stalls stacked with Danish decorations, sweets and chocolate. There’s a Christmas lottery too, last year’s top prize was two nights at a hotel in Denmark. Cash is the safer bet if the card machines get temperamental, and under 6s go free.
King’s Cross Winter Market | 📍Granary Square, N1C | 26 November - 3 January |Free
A brand new Christmas market in Granary Square, independent food, drink and makers’ stalls, a winter bandstand and live music through the season. Open late most nights, until 10pm Sunday to Thursday and 11pm on weekends, so it works as an after-work or after-dinner stop as much as a weekend outing. Running right through to 3 January.
Mexican Christmas Market | 📍Coal Drops Yard, N1C | 27 - 29 November | Free
This is the seventh year MexiBrit and El Pastor have done it, and it’s become one of the better alternatives to the usual festive market circuit. MexiBrit transforms Coal Drops Yard into a Mexican Christmas, crafts, ornaments, jewellery and clothing alongside sopes, tamales, churros, pan dulce and hot chocolate. Saturday brings a Norteño band and piñatas, Sunday a mariachi performance and more piñatas. El Pastor’s restaurant is open throughout if you want to sit down for tacos and a margarita. 11am to 7pm each day.
St Mary’s Christmas Fair | 📍St Mary’s Church, N1 | 28 November | Free
A Christmas fair in one of Islington’s oldest churches, 20 craft stalls from independent makers, the choir singing, cake and a pot of tea. Free entry, free activities for children, 11am to 4pm.
Queens Crescent Christmas Market Fair | 📍Queens Crescent, NW5 | 28 November | Free
Queens Crescent is one of Camden’s last proper street markets, and its Christmas fair brings Caribbean food, freshly baked bread, plants, flowers, fashion, homeware, children’s clothes and toys all together on the street. 10am to 4pm.
Festive Tottenham Flea & Designers Fair | 📍Bruce Castle Museum, N17 | 28 November | Free
Bruce Castle is a Tudor manor house sitting in the middle of Tottenham, and once a year it hosts a flea and designers fair. Over 30 stalls of vintage goods, clothes, jewellery, maps, artwork and retro collectibles, with a vintage café open all day. The perfect combination of somewhere worth visiting and something worth buying. 10.30am to 4.30pm.
The Market Plug Christmas Pop-Up | 📍Angel Yard, Edmonton, N18 | 28 November | Free
The Market Plug’s final pop-up of the year turns Angel Yard in Edmonton into a Christmas marketplace, independent brands and local vendors, food and festive treats, live music and children’s activities. 12pm to 6pm.
Primrose Hill Christmas Festival | 📍Regents Park Road, NW1 | 29 November | Free
Primrose Hill’s annual Christmas street festival fills Regents Park Road from morning to evening, live music, fairground rides, boutique craft stalls and street food. The Anna Webb Dog Show runs alongside with proceeds going to All Dogs Matter and St Mary’s Church. 9.30am to 6pm.
December
Muswell Hill Creatives Winter Makers Market | 📍Hornsey Town Hall, N8 | 5 December | Free
Muswell Hill Creatives take their winter market to Hornsey Town Hall this time, independent artists, designers and makers selling original gifts. 11.30am to 5pm
Primrose Hill Designer Sale | 📍St Mary’s Church, NW3 | 5 December | (£)
A designer sale in a Primrose Hill church, beautiful finds and pre-loved designer pieces in one of the nicest settings you’ll shop in this Christmas. £2 entry, 10am to 5pm
Rochester Square Christmas Ceramics Market | 📍Rochester Square, NW1 | 5 December | Free
Rochester Square is a Camden community of potters, and once a year they sell their work directly from the square. Handmade ceramics, mulled wine and a raffle where everything you can win was also made by hand. Raffle winners announced at 5pm. 12pm to 6pm.
Crafty Fox Christmas Market | 📍The Crossing, Granary Square, N1C | 6 December | Free
Crafty Fox has been running independent maker markets since 2010, and their Christmas edition fills The Crossing at Granary Square with 110 different makers and artists each day, jewellery, ceramics, fashion, art prints, candles and homeware. Different lineup on each date, so worth coming back. Dog friendly, accessible, 11am to 5pm.
Barnet Christmas Fayre 2026 | 📍High Barnet Town Centre, EN5 | 6 December | Free
High Barnet shuts down its town centre and fills it with Christmas for one Sunday afternoon. Santa’s Grotto and Winter Wonderland at The Bull Theatre, Aladdin the panto, classic cars, craft beer, mulled wine, live music, dance performances and a funfair for kids. Volunteer-run and entirely free, and with reduced council funding this year, it needs the footfall. 12pm to 5pm.
Myddleton Road Winter Festival | 📍Myddleton Road, N22 | 6 December | Free
Myddleton Road closes to traffic for its annual winter festival, Christmas craft stalls, street food, bakers, live music, DJs, a brass band and choir, fairground rides and a Santa’s Grotto. Kids can make lanterns during the day then join the lantern parade at 4.50pm, finishing with the Christmas lights switch-on at 5pm. 12pm to 5pm.
Chanukah Gift Fair | 📍Hammerson House, N2 | 6 December | Free
Chanukah is the Jewish festival of lights, celebrated with the lighting of the nine-branched menorah over eight nights. Nightingale Hammerson marks it with a gift fair at their Bishops Avenue campus, over 20 boutique stalls selling handmade gifts, a salt beef bar, live music and a Chanukiah lighting ceremony. 11.30am to 4pm.
Under the Arches Christmas Gift Fair | 📍The Prince of Wales, East Barnet, EN4 | 12 December | Free
Under the Arches has a new home this Christmas, a gastro pub in East Barnet village. Local makers selling curated art, homewares and gifts, children’s crafts, Christmas music, mulled wine and a visit from Santa. 2pm to 8pm.
St Jude’s Christmas Designer Market | 📍St Jude’s on the Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, NW11 | 12 December | Free
St Jude’s on the Hill is one of the most striking church buildings in London, designed by Edwin Lutyens and sitting at the heart of Hampstead Garden Suburb. This December it fills with over 60 stalls of designer gifts, a pop-up café with mulled wine and barista coffee, and a Santa’s Grotto. 10am to 4pm.
Christmas Art + Design Market | 📍Abney Hall, Stoke Newington, N16 | 12 - 13 December | Free
Stoke Newington’s Abney Hall fills up with 65 independent artists and makers the weekend before Christmas, prints, ceramics, slow fashion, jewellery and homewares, all sold by the people who made them. Mulled wine and pierogi on site, and if you’ve never been to Abney Park Cemetery directly opposite, it’s one of London’s Magnificent Seven and genuinely worth the detour.
Duck Pond Christmas Market | 📍Lauderdale House, N6 | 12-13 December | Free
Lauderdale House gets its Christmas market weekend in December, with Duck Pond Market filling the 15th century house with local artists, crafters, food producers and independent businesses. Expect handmade gifts, art, homeware, clothing, vintage finds and food spread through the rooms, with Waterlow Park just outside if you want a wander afterwards. 11am to 5pm both days. Dogs on leads are welcome.
Crafty Fox Christmas Market | 📍The Crossing, Granary Square, King’s Cross, N1C | 12 + 13 December | Free
Crafty Fox has been running independent maker markets since 2010, and their Christmas edition fills The Crossing at Granary Square with 110 different makers and artists each day, jewellery, ceramics, fashion, art prints, candles and homeware. Different lineup on each date, so worth coming back. Dog friendly, accessible, 11am to 5pm.
Thriftmas | 📍Abney Public Hall, N16 | 19 - 20 December | Free
The people behind Hackney Flea Market and DIY Art Market have taken over Abney Hall’s first floor and basement for a two-day festive thrift. Sixty traders, so expect the usual flea market chaos but make it Christmas, preloved fashion, ceramic seconds, vintage chintz, one-off jewellery, £20 bargain bins, nail art, temp tattoos and a grillz stylist if December has you feeling bold.
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