Creative traders have been lighting up Tavistock high street with festive shop fronts.

The town centre is already feeling festive, with lights strung across West Street, Duke and Brook Street and Bedford Square, among others. Meanwhile, the guildhall and town hall are outlined in bright white lights and the street lights have their own lights.

However, it is the imaginative window displays by individual shopkeepers which particularly entice visitors and locals to linger.

Shoppers are being welcomed inside the shops – most of them independents – by shop fronts variously featuring Father Christmas, Christmas trees, large baubles, festive wreaths and cascades of coloured lights.

Competition is fierce for the Tavistock BID’s annual shop window competition. Winners will be announced during Dickensian Evening on Friday (December 5).