Modern day Garstang is a thriving community that still retains a rural character and a slower pace of life than Lancaster to the north and Preston to the south.

Local employment is based around agriculture and associated support services with light industrial estates at Green Lane and Barnacre with smaller workshops in diversified farms all around the area, commuting to the cities is also popular.

With the recent addition of a Booths flagship store on Cherestanc Square Garstang now has three fine supermarkets catering for differing styles of shopping. Anyone who has not experienced one of Booths flagship stores should give this a look, it is a very different shopping environment to the big four grocers.

The High Street, Church Street, Bridge Street, has a wealth of independent traders supplying a variety of goods and services and appears to be standing up quite well in the current economic climate avoiding the host of empty shops now so obvious in Lancaster and other towns. The weinds are also populated with interesting offerings.

Thursday is market day in Garstang, a street market that first started seven hundred years ago, was re introduce in the fourteenth century since when it has run continuously, stalls line the High Street, market traders coming from far and wide to offer a good range of well priced goods. The Market Hall, open Wed, Thur, and Saturday, has first class local and other cheeses, top class butchers, fruit and vegetables and cakes, have a look you will not be disappointed. Thursday market and Garstang is a meeting place for people from the surrounding villages.

The town is situated on the historic London to Carlisle road, the river Wyre and the Lancaster Canal.

The A6 bypasses Garstang, Catterall and Cabus. The M6 motorway is close by as is the main West Coast Railway link between Scotland and England.

Garstang, Forton, the Wyre Estuary and Morecambe Bay coast is a magnet for walkers and cyclists who can be seen around town all year round but particularly in the summer, when a stroll or cycle through the beautiful countryside is enjoyed by many.

The area is the centre of Lancashire cheese production and the home of Dewlay, the relatively mild climate and high precipitation producing rich pastures on which to graze the cows that produce the high quality milk that is such a necessary ingredient of the finest quality cheese. Visitors should certainly try a taste of our very own Dewlay Garstang Blue cheese.

A recent addition to the Garstang community is the Dewlay wind turbine situated at the Dewlay plant on a rise over the town this four hundred and thirteen feet high (126 metre) monster dominates the Garstang skyline enabling Dewlay to present themselves as a green company and more importantly tap into mega subsidies.