Horsham is not a neglected backwater. Its award winning town centre with many Medieval and Tudor buildings provides a superb environment for shopping, strolling, browsing and relaxing. Walking through the mixture of intimate alleyways, wide streets, and landscaped piazzas, it is a delight to explore the specialist shops selling local produce, collectors'' items and unusual gifts. Swan Walk is the town''s modern and busy shopping mall with many well-known high street stores Horsham has a thriving market scene including Antiques, Local produce and Arts & Crafts. Saturdays is the main day with markets at Market Square and the Carfax. There is also an open-air market on Thursdays in the Bishopric. The Carfax, in the centre of Town, is an ideal spot on a summer''s day. Sitting under a parasol you can listen to musicians play in the Victorian bandstand, and admire the award-winning displays of Horsham in Bloom. Horsham boasts some extremely fine and interesting works of public art, the most recent addition being the spectacular and much talked about water feature "Rising Universe" which celebrates the life and works of the poet Shelley.
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