FarGo Village is a creative quarter on Far Gosford Street,

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. Costing £5 million and opened on 27 September 2014, it is a mixture of mobile catering units, small boutique style units housed in repurposed

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s, and larger stores surrounding a marketplace area. Units include cafes, restaurants,

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businesses, a

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brewery,

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shops, and a comic book shop run by artist and writer Al Davidson. It also has the world's only museum dedicated to TV actor

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. It also features ''The Box'' - a 500 person capacity music and

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venue. In 2021, it opened ''The Factory'', a collection of

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businesses connected to indoor and outdoor dining areas. As well as housing retail units The Village holds regular events such as

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shows,

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evenings, food festivals and

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. It is expected that a stop on the

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system will be located there, linking it with the city railway station, Pool Meadow Bus Station and

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References

External links

The Official websiteFarGo TwitterThe Village's page on Shakespeare's England website
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