The Market place is a relatively small area that houses a compact market each Monday and Thursday. It is an area of land with a street out of each corner. The High Street runs inland, Queen Street towards South Green and East Street is to the sea.

In the centre is the 'Town Pump' a cast iron construction, this 1873 casting shows herrings and the crown and crossed arrows of St. Edmund. On the butchers shop you will find the Jubilee clock of 1977.

On the seaward side of the Market Place, the cells of the former town Gaol are used as storage by the 'Greengrocers Shop'. Henry VII granted a charter around 1711 for the gaol on this site, which was finally abandoned in 1835.

The Swan Hotel dominates the market place, and is a splendid building. Before 1819 the Inn was a plain two-story building, but then in 1826 Mr Buckenham its owner added the third story. The first extension eastwards is early Victorian tall towerlike, with a delightful canopy. The second extension of 1938 is neo-georgian and very elegant.

On the landward side of the swan is the 'Town Hall' originally a private house. It is the building with little Greek ornaments on the doorcase, enhanced by an iron balcony.