Felicity's Farm Shop
18 August 2014
Everything from daily basics to luxury artisan foods. The takeaway does snacks, teas, coffees and treats.
Farm Shops in Dorset
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Felicity's Farm Shop
Everything from daily basics to luxury artisan foods. The takeaway does snacks, teas, coffees and treats.
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Town Mill Cheesemonger
Calling all cheese lovers: this Lyme Regis cheesemonger was proclaimed Best New Cheese Retailer in the UK at the British Cheese Awards 2009. They also stock Dorset-made ice cream and sorbets from Barford Farm.
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The Old Watch House
Situated on the historic Cobb harbour in Lyme Regis. Choose from fresh fish, crab, lobster or whatever happens to have been freshly landed that day. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Clarissa Dickson-Wright, Charlie Boorman and Mark Hix are all fans. In 2009 The Old Watch House won silver for best retail shop in the Taste of the West awards.
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West Holme Farm
Set in 15 acres in the lovely Isle of Purbeck region of Dorset. This family-run pick your own farm has been growing fruit and veg since the 1970s. There's also a farm shop, plant nursery and tea room here where you can enjoy a cream tea made with Holme made jam.
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Pampered Pigs
Pampered pigs; and cows and sheep. All their breeds are raised free range to produce choice lamb, pork and beef. Awarded Best Food Producer for Dorset in the Taste of Dorset Awards 2008.
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Home Farm Shop
They stock everything here from fresh local veg, freshly laid eggs and local cheeses, to organic fruit, local juices and home produced meat and game in season. Feeling peckish? Drop in to the Tearoom for a traditional farmhouse breakfast or a Dorset cream tea. Now also listed in the 2011 Times "Britain's best farm shops" guide.
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Goldhill Organic Farm Shop
Stock up on organic veg and British beef grown and reared on the farm. Goldhill has been an organic farm since 1988.
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Balson's Butchers
Butchering since 1535, Britain's oldest family business is still going strong. Farm shops may be the in-thing, but this is the real thing.
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Barford Farmhouse Ice Cream
At Barford they use milk from their own herd of cows to make this scrumtious Dorset ice cream. Handily, the farm is on the Stour Valley Walk and the North Dorset cycle route, so you can stop off for a well-earned ice cream break. Choose from a huge array of flavours, inlcuding Double Liquorice.
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Bridport Farmers' Market
Go celeb-spotting; Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall can sometimes be found here, selling produce from his River Cottage HQ, alongside 30 other local producers. Held in the Arts Centre on the second Saturday of the month, 9am-1pm.
Farm Shops in Dorset
'For some of the finest food on the planet we have listed 21 Dorset Farm Shops, so you can buy the best ingredients whilst in Dorset.'
Town Mill Cheesemonger
4 July 2012
Calling all cheese lovers: this Lyme Regis cheesemonger was proclaimed Best New Cheese Retailer in the UK at the British Cheese Awards 2009. They also stock Dorset-made ice cream and sorbets from Barford Farm.
The Old Watch House
28 April 2010
Situated on the historic Cobb harbour in Lyme Regis. Choose from fresh fish, crab, lobster or whatever happens to have been freshly landed that day. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Clarissa Dickson-Wright, Charlie Boorman and Mark Hix are all fans. In 2009 The Old Watch House won silver for best retail shop in the Taste of the West awards.
West Holme Farm
27 April 2010
Set in 15 acres in the lovely Isle of Purbeck region of Dorset. This family-run pick your own farm has been growing fruit and veg since the 1970s. There's also a farm shop, plant nursery and tea room here where you can enjoy a cream tea made with Holme made jam.
Pampered Pigs
16 March 2010
Pampered pigs; and cows and sheep. All their breeds are raised free range to produce choice lamb, pork and beef. Awarded Best Food Producer for Dorset in the Taste of Dorset Awards 2008.
Home Farm Shop
15 July 2009
They stock everything here from fresh local veg, freshly laid eggs and local cheeses, to organic fruit, local juices and home produced meat and game in season. Feeling peckish? Drop in to the Tearoom for a traditional farmhouse breakfast or a Dorset cream tea. Now also listed in the 2011 Times "Britain's best farm shops" guide.
Goldhill Organic Farm Shop
20 October 2008
Stock up on organic veg and British beef grown and reared on the farm. Goldhill has been an organic farm since 1988.
Balson's Butchers
Butchering since 1535, Britain's oldest family business is still going strong. Farm shops may be the in-thing, but this is the real thing.
Barford Farmhouse Ice Cream
At Barford they use milk from their own herd of cows to make this scrumtious Dorset ice cream. Handily, the farm is on the Stour Valley Walk and the North Dorset cycle route, so you can stop off for a well-earned ice cream break. Choose from a huge array of flavours, inlcuding Double Liquorice.
Bridport Farmers' Market
Go celeb-spotting; Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall can sometimes be found here, selling produce from his River Cottage HQ, alongside 30 other local producers. Held in the Arts Centre on the second Saturday of the month, 9am-1pm.