Thame Farmers Mart To Open New Auction Centre

THAME Farmers Auction Mart, which runs Thame’s battling cattlemarket, is to open a new Monday auction centre at Home Farm, Foscote near Buckingham with the first sale on February 4.
The opening of this converted farmyard to a livestock market is brought about by the closure of Winslow Market, the last remaining market in Buckinghamshire.
Winslow has been an important centre for sheep producers and has been run as a satellite market to Thame.
The directors of Thame felt it important to provide facilities for producers of both cattle and sheep in the Buckingham area and with the co-operation of the Pullin family have created a covered market with penning for 2,000 head of sheep or 320 cattle at Home Farm.

Thame cattlemarket wants to move to a new, shared facility on the Thame show ground, but three planning applications have been rejected by South Oxfordshire District Council.
Both Thame cattlemarket and The Thame Show organisation await the result of a Planning Appeal against the decision.

The Developer, Bob Williams, who is behind the planned Thame move, has said that the Thame Cattlemarket may move out of Thame completely if its proposals are unsuccessful, fearing that “the death knell” for both the cattlemarket and Thame Show has been sounded by the district council’s lack of support.