Cox's Leather Shop is based in Shambles in the historic minster City of York. We are still a family business – now in our 4th generation – and we hope you'll come and see the fantastic range of products we sell (many of which are available online).

Our opening hours are:

2011
Monday to Saturday - 9.00am to 5.30pm
Sunday - 11.00am to 4.00pm

24th December 2011 - 9.00am to 3.00pm
25th to 27th December 2011 - Closed
28th to 30th December 2011 - 9.00am to 5.30pm
31st December 2011 - 9.00am to 4.00pm

2012
1st & 2nd January 2012 - Closed
3rd January to 1st April 2012:
Monday to Saturday - 9.00am to 5.30pm
Sunday - Closed

2nd April to 23rd December 2012
Monday to Saturday - 9.00am to 5.30pm
Sunday* - 11.00am to 4.00pm
Bank Holidays*

We try and have everything we sell on our website. However if you've seen anything in-store that you can't find online please give us a call or email us and we can send it to you!

We have a fantastic choice of all things leather – including Handbags, Purses, Wallets, Briefcases, Luggage, Gloves, Slippers (in leather & sheepskin), Mens Bags, Folios, Wash Bags, Key Holders, Filofax style Diary/Agendas, Belts and much more! We also have many non-leather bags by Betty Barclay, Claudia Canova & Red or Dead, and a large choice of walking sticks & canes by Classic Canes of Somerset.

Brands currently stocked are: Betty Barclay, Billy Bag, Bridge, Classic Canes, Claudia Canova, Claudio Ferrici, Clean Heels, Dents, Draper of Glastonbury, Falcon, Fossil, Fulton Umbrellas, Golunski, Hidesign, Inch Blue, Kipling, Marta Ponti. Modalu, Mywalit, Neale Dataday, Nicoli, Olsen, Pilar Abril, Radley, Red or Dead, Rowallan, Saddler, Shepherd, Smith & Canova, Tony Perotti, Tintamar, Torpatoffeln and Tula.

We also stock a huge range of shoe & leather care products by brands such as Kiwi, Punch, Dasco, Woly & Bama.

Situated in the wonderfully historic City of York, we are proud to have a large shop & workshop in one of the city's oldest streets – Shambles. Whilst many of the properties in the street have been re-built over the years, and are now steel framed buildings, our building still retains its original oak timber frame – strengthened by a full refurbishment in 1995.

Many of the shops in Shambles were traditionally butchers – the word Shambles deriving from the Anglo-Saxon 'Shamels' or 'Fleshammels' (literally flesh-shelves) the word for the shelves that butchers used to display their meat. As recently as 1872 there were twenty-five butchers' shops in the street, and there is still a butcher in the adjacent Little Shambles which leads to York's open-air Newgate Market.

Among the buildings of the Shambles is a shrine to Saint Margaret Clitherow, who was married to a butcher who owned and lived in a shop there.

A number of the shops on the street still have meat-hooks hanging outside – including our own at no. 31 & 32 and, below them, shelves on which meat would have been displayed. Also inside no.31 is the original meat rail from the time when this building was still used as a butchers. We feel we're keeping up some of the Shambles' tradition by still specialising in a meat derived product!

Cox's Leather Shop was established in 1921 by William Cox – initially trading as Cox of Northampton (Mr Cox had moved from that area). Until the 1960's the company specialized in shoe & leather repairs, and whilst this is still a significant part of our business we are now predominantly a leather goods retailer with a vast range of products, and we hope you'll come and see us.