The St Andrews Lammas Market dates
The oldest surviving medieval street fair is back in 2025!
This year, the dates for Lammas Market are 8 – 12th August 2025, and will take over Market Street and South Street, and fill them with an array of fun fair rides, stalls and food and drink.
Situated within walking distance to all of our St Andrews properties, take a stroll in to town to support this local tradition and have a wonderful day or few days out.
Lammas dates back to the pagan festival of harvest, celebrating the first harvest of the year as new loaves were brought into church to be blessed. The Scottish Festival of Lammas became a holiday which would be held as a local gathering, to sell crop and celebrate the hard work that goes in to bringing it to harvest to feed the town.
In the weeks leading up to Lammas Day, communities were at their highest risk of starving, as food stock from previous harvest’s depleted. The celebration heralded the new harvest and the hope of a return to more prosperous times.
At the end of the 20th century, only two Lammas Fairs remained, one of which was aptly in the historic town of St Andrews.
Want to stay nearby?
We have a great selection of properties available, use our dates filter to see which properties we have available from 9th – 13th August, click here
