August 2023 by Russell Hughes
An asset to the village , great shop and the garden play area and ice cream counter is great for the kids, the owner is very generous and always goes above and beyond
July 2023 by Ems B
Lovely gifts, toys and stationery, staff are very friendly, lovely little ice cream parlor behind the store with a pretty garden too.
July 2023 by Graham Bayley
Friendly and helpful local shop/cafe
September 2022 by Julie Prodger
Lovely place to shop
September 2021 by Katherine Hudson
Fabulous shop. A mixture of a proper old fashioned sweet shop like the ones your childhood memories are made of. Amazing selection of cards for any occassion, gifts for everyone, and £1 ice-creams in the summer for the kids. A proper community shop.
October 2019 by Emma Desbruslais
The most wonderful shop, Fiona and her staff are absolutely the best! Always helpful and smiling.
October 2019 by Kim Coleshill
Very expensive
October 2018 by Thomas Faith
Great little shop, newsagent, cards, small gifts, sweets and toys for kids. Great Lego selection strangely enough!
October 2018 by Lisa Futcher
Brought a birthday balloon from here withen 8hrs it had gone down! Then looked to see why and it had a thin bit of tape over it to patch up the hole.
October 2018 by Martin Robertson
Thay had just what I was looking for
October 2017 by Gemma P
Such a brilliant shop; it always seems to have what you're looking for and more!
October 2017 by Dino P
Great shop with a really wide range
October 2017 by Rob Laughton
Such a nice puppy!
April 2010 by Josh H.
Ok so you know how there are a range of little shops in Brighton that sell old sweets and cheap little retro toys? You visit them when you're feeling a bit down and that hit of nostalgia and the rosy memories of when you were a munchkin and had no such cares as work and bills lift you up again. It's a genuine case of retail therapy. Well, A. Stokes in Henfield is the shop you went to when you were wee (if you're in your twenties or thirties now and grew up in the UK) only it hasn't changed the stock and prices are the same. The lovely lady behind the counter is the same only she hasn't aged and she doesn't have a tight perm and grey knitwear that seems inspired by golfing socks. In its' capacity as a newsagent this place clearly does well - there's a good selection of magazines and papers, a more then well stocked stationery section and a fantastic display containing jars of retro boiled sweets. Parenthetically, as the sign outside suggests, A. Stokes is so much more. I imagine it's a side effect of it being a rural store that A. Stokes sees the need to have such a broad stock - out here you have a captive demographic and catering to them as shops did in the old days is a smart business move that has clearly paid off. But even with this in mind the toy section is insane they have jars of bouncy balls, ping pong balls, tennis balls, balloons and water bombs. A section is entirely devoted to Britain's farm toys, model cars, fishing nets and kites and it's all brightly coloured and within the range of actual pocket money. Aside from the fact that I became massively excited about a range of toys that I haven't seen since the early 1990s, listening the locals talking to the shop staff you realize that A. Stokes have a real care for the local community. This place may not be "locally sourced" or "organic" but it is a real heart of the community and the best place I think I've ever found to get your childhood toy kicks.
