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Dumfries and Galloway

Moffat Toffee Shop

A wall of sweetie jars on the high street, and the toffee Moffat is known for.

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Welcome

The Moffat Toffee Shop is the sort of shop that stops children dead in the doorway: both long walls are shelved floor to ceiling with glass jars, several hundred of them, and there is a counter of chocolates besides.

The toffee itself is the reason for the name - dark, buttery, hard rather than chewy, and made to a recipe the town has had since the end of the nineteenth century. It is sold in tins with the Moffat ram on them and it is the thing people drive here for. The rest of the shop is the whole history of British confectionery in one room, most of it weighed out by the quarter from the jar, which is rarer now than it ought to be.

Round the cornerMoffatA spa town with a broad street, a ram with no ears and the narrowest hotel there is.1 min by roadSee itA stream trickles into a loch surrounded by rolling green hills and forest
Before you go
How long
Twenty minutes to three quarters of an hour
Cost
Free to go in
Getting there
On the High Street at Moffat; park on the street.

Opening hours

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Monday
10am–4pm
Tuesday
10am–4pm
Wednesday
10am–4pm
Thursday
10am–4pm
Friday
10am–4pm
Saturday
10am–5pm
Sunday
midnight–4pm
Where it is

On the High Street at Moffat, a few doors from the ram.

Close byThe rest of Dumfries and Galloway, near at hand.
  1. The Singing Potter of MoffatThe Singing Potter of MoffatGerard Lyons is the singing potter of Moffat, a former opera singer who now sings religious pieces.Under a mile 1 min by road
  2. The Moffat RamThe Moffat RamA bronze ram on a fountain in Moffat's wide High Street, given in 1875 to mark the town's long history of sheep farming and wool.Under a mile 1 min by road
  3. Bearded man with a wooden staff walks through a misty, gnarled forestThe Merlin TrailFour walking trails in the south of Scotland that follow the story of Merlin and the man behind the legendUnder a mile 1 min by road
  4. Grey Mare's TailGrey Mare's TailSixty metres of water off a hanging valley, on the road from Moffat to Selkirk.9 miles 12 min by road
  5. Loch cradled between steep, grassy hills under a heavy grey skyLoch SkeenThe highest loch in the Southern Uplands, holding Britain's rarest fish.10 miles 14 min by road
Directions
A stream trickles into a loch surrounded by rolling green hills and forestAttractionsMoffat0.2 miles
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