Doncaster's market has been trading on the same site since the Middle Ages, and it remains one of the best traditional markets in Yorkshire. The indoor Corn Exchange building and the outdoor stalls together cover a large area of the town centre, with market days (Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday) bringing stalls selling fresh food, cheese, meat, bread, clothing, hardware, and everything else a market town should have.
The Corn Exchange building itself, a Victorian cast-iron and glass structure, is architecturally interesting — the type of building that distinguished the prosperous market towns of the industrial north. On a busy Saturday morning the market is genuinely alive, with a customer base that mixes local families, farmers, and market-savvy shoppers looking for good produce at fair prices.