These include Knitting Pretty (pictured below), Painting Pots, Marchella Extraordinary Chocolates, Claire Baxter Art Gallery, Brymor Ice Cream, Number 13 coffee shop, Honey Bees at Hannahs cafe, The Little Way Cafe, Boggle Hole Yorkshire Gift Shop, The Yorkshire Beeswax Candle Company, vegan friendly Scarletts Vintage Tea Rooms, Castle Creamery Ice Cream & Coffee Shop and Sue Ryder, as well as hairdressers Kelly Teggin, Arum and Tommy's barber shop.

Continue down Castlegate to Brymor Ice Cream and you will see the entrance to Knaresborough's historic castle grounds on your right. A former Royal residence and still owned by the King today, Knaresborough Castle was once a stronghold of Mediaeval Kings and administrative heart of the 'Forest of Knaresborough'. The grounds are free to enter and offer a great viewpoint over the town's picturesque viaduct. Visitors can also pay to enter the Courthouse Museum between 10am and 4pm on both Saturday and Sunday.