Charity shops in Aberystwyth
- 12 shops
- 7 charity
- 5 book & second-hand
- 2 walking routes
- within 6 km of the centre
A run starting at Craft covers 6 shops in Aberystwyth in 7 minutes, taking in Oxfam Bookshop and Barnardo's. Oxfam has 2 branches in the city. The Bookshop By The Sea anchors another run, 6 shops in 12 minutes. Aberystwyth has 12 shops in total, 7 charity shops, 3 bookshops and 2 secondhand shops.
Chains with several branches: Oxfam (2)
Book-hunting routes
2 routesShops a few minutes' walk apart, in walking order. Do a run in one go and the outliers another day.
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Craft and 5 more6 shops
Craft → Oxfam Bookshop → British Red Cross → Barnardo's → 2 more
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The Bookshop By The Sea and 5 more6 shops
The Bookshop By The Sea → The Climate Shop → Sense → Farplace Animal Rescue → 2 more
· ~12 min
Showing 12 shops
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Craft Second-hand shop
Craft and 5 more · stop 1
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Oxfam Bookshop Second-hand bookshop
Craft and 5 more · stop 2
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British Red Cross Charity shop
Craft and 5 more · stop 3
0.2 km -
Tenovus Cancer Care Charity shop
Y Stryd Fawr / Great Darkgate Street · SY23 1DE
Craft and 5 more · stop 6
0.2 km -
Barnardo's Charity shop
Mon–Sat 09:00–17:00 · Craft and 5 more · stop 4
0.2 km -
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Books Plus Second-hand shop
Northgate Street
Tue 09:30–14:30 · The Bookshop By The Sea and 5 more · stop 6
0.3 km -
0.3 km
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Farplace Animal Rescue Charity shop
Y Stryd Fawr / Great Darkgate Street · SY23 1DE
Mon–Sat 09:00–17:00 · The Bookshop By The Sea and 5 more · stop 4
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Sense Charity shop
Great Darkgate Street · SY23 1DE
Mon–Sat 09:00–17:00 · The Bookshop By The Sea and 5 more · stop 3
0.3 km -
The Bookshop By The Sea Second-hand bookshop
Market Street · SY23 1DL
Tue–Fri 11:00–17:00 · The Bookshop By The Sea and 5 more · stop 1
0.3 km -
The Climate Shop Charity shop
SY23 1NY
Mon–Sat 10:00–16:30 · The Bookshop By The Sea and 5 more · stop 2
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Llyfrau Ystwyth Second-hand bookshop
Mon–Sat 10:00–16:00 · The Bookshop By The Sea and 5 more · stop 5
0.4 km
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Book hunting in Aberystwyth
Nearest-first is a decent route plan on its own: cluster your visits, start with the shops closest to each other, and save the outliers for days you're passing anyway. Charity shops re-shelve constantly, most put new donations out every day or two, so a shop that was quiet on Saturday can be a different shop by Wednesday. Weekday mornings beat weekend afternoons, and it's always worth asking a volunteer when the book trolley comes out.
7 of the shops here have their opening hours on record, and 4 of those open on Sundays. Where no hours are listed, nobody has recorded them yet. 2 of the 12 are general second-hand shops.
If you want the odds on your side, read our guides to finding good books in charity shops and spotting the books worth grabbing before you set out.
Donating books in Aberystwyth
7 of the shops here are charity-run and take book donations during opening hours. If you pay UK income tax, filling in a Gift Aid form at the till lets the shop claim an extra 25% on whatever your books sell for, at no cost to you. Shops pay to dispose of what they cannot sell, so a bad donation costs the charity money. The test before you pack a bag: would someone buy this today? Recent fiction, classics, cookery and children's books move. Old textbooks, out-of-date travel guides and anything damp or mouldy do not.
Our guide to where to donate books covers which shops suit which books, and what to do with a whole house clear-out.
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