Old Smithy

The Old Smithy is your typical tourist shop and café, with a large selection of random things you never knew you wanted until a long lost relative bought it for you while they were on holiday. The café is surprisingly nice considering they’d earn a fortune from the coach parties regardless of their quality. Their cream cakes are wonderful and completely fresh — I particularly recommend the eclairs and millionnaire’s shortbread. I believe they’re all cooked on site and they have a wonderful pastry chef.
This is definitely a place worth stopping off for a cream tea so long as you don’t mind the crowds in the height of summer. The car park is free and is the only one around for miles, so it’s also a good base to explore the pretty village of Godshill.

This is an oldie worldie shop, it is a mix of everything your gran would love and things which you hate to admit may be quite classy. They stock a variety of high quality gifts, it is not the sort of shop I would buy from for myself, but ideal for all those people who are impossible to buy for at christmas. They stock china, glass ware, top end soft toys, dunoon mugs etc with a variety of cards and wrapping paper aswell. They are a little overpriced, but it is all sold to you with love and time only available from an independent trader so i guess the price reflects this.