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Festive Feasts
EAT WELL THIS CHRISTMAS & HEAD TO THESE GREAT PLACES FOR FANTASTIC FOOD & DRINK...
Allington are renowned for their bespoke Christmas hampers
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ALLINGTON FARM SHOP
Allington Bar Farm, Allington, Chippenham At Christmas Allington Farm Shop is packed full of delicious seasonal goodies, premium Christmas trees and great gift ideas including fabulous hampers tailor made to your requirements. There are a huge range of baskets ready to be filled with your favourite seasonal produce. There is an extensive range of locally sourced goods on sale (any of which can be included) from local cheese, chutneys and biscuits, fine wines, local ales and ciders, preserves, luxury homemade Christmas cakes and chocolates to an entire Christmas dinner!
Orders are now being taken for Christmas in the inhouse butchery. As well as home reared turkeys, the butchery specialises in local free range cockerels, chickens, geese, ducks and home cooked hams, all cuts of pork, beef and lamb as well as local seasonal game, dry cured bacon and gammon joints and homemade sausages and faggots. Christmas trees are also on sale from 27 November.
01249 658112 | allingtonfarmshop.co.uk cheese and quality delicatessen produce including local ham, pâtés, olives, jams, chutneys, biscuits, wine, luxury chocolates, gifts, hampers and much more! Perfect treats whatever the occasion, they are also taking pre-orders for the festive season from now until 7 December for your perfect cheese board at Christmas or for gift hampers for that someone special - book early to avoid disappointment! They are also open daily from 14 December through to Christmas Eve for you to pop in.
01225 920240 | cheese-shop.co.uk
CJ ROBBINS
76 Market Place, Warminster CJ Robbins is a Warminster institution; having occupied its premises in the Market Place for three generations it is owned and run by Chris Robbins. Business is thriving largely thanks to the simple principle of offering a good quality product at a reasonable price. They source many of their wares from local established micro food wholesalers, including farmers, cheese makers and egg producers, all of whom value the small business and operate exacting welfare codes, producing free range food with complete traceability.
They are now taking orders for locally reared Woolley Park Farm bronze turkeys and geese as well as all your usual Christmas favourites, including superb beef, ducks and cockerels, local pork and lamb as well as Sandridge Farm dry cured bacon and products. You can order online via their new website, with the option of free local delivery or click and collect, whichever suits you. For more information email info@cjrobbins.co.uk or call today.
CJ Robbins is a Warminster institution 01985 213052 | cjrobbins.co.uk
THE DELI AT CORSHAM
18 High Street, Corsham Sitting on the High Street, The Deli is your one stop shop for some of the finest foods in the region. It is a licensed delicatessen and cheesemonger offering a superb selection of artisan cheeses, as well as continental and local cold meats. As you would expect there are also many other deli favourites including delicious freshly baked pastries and quiches, a selection of olives and award-winning chutneys, pickles and jams. You can also take home some aromatic freshly ground coffee and impressive wines. Why not request a delicious hamper, made to order? They create a unique gift for Christmas or any other special occasion. Or for the busy host ask about their ‘Christmas Made Easy’ boxes – full
THE CHEESE SHOP
01249 716091 | thedeliatcorsham.co.uk
"ask about their ‘Christmas Made Easy’ boxes – full of basic essentials as well as yummy indulgent treats!" The Deli at Corsham
ELLIOTT’S TRADITIONAL BUTCHERS
High Street, Westbury Elliott’s has a great local reputation for their high quality, keenly priced meat. All locally sourced and supplied, owner Andy Elliott and his team are getting ready for Christmas and will be offering local free range bronze turkeys and turkey crowns as well as free range geese, Gressingham ducks and locally reared pork, lamb and beef. They have smoked and unsmoked back bacon, gammon joints, sausage meat, chipolatas and pigs in blankets too. They will also be offering Christmas Meat Boxes – filled to the brim with everything you might need if you are entertaining friends and family. They aren’t taking bookings this year; it will all be available on a first come, first served basis. Call or pop in to find out more.
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FAIRFIELD FARM SHOP
High Street, Dilton Marsh Don’t miss a visit to Fairfield Farm Shop & Café this festive season. The farm shop is stocked full of festive goods, much of which is homemade on-site by the students at Fairfield Farm College. The popular Christmas puddings, chutneys, cakes and homegrown vegetables are just some of the items available to purchase. What’s more the on-site Post Office is ready to help send all your Christmas gifts and cards. Don’t forget to pick up a lovely handmade wreath! The Fairfield Farm Café is serving a delicious array of Christmas treats, as well as tasty breakfasts and lunches, and is the perfect place for a catch up with friends. There is also a lovely Animal Walk where you can visit and feed an array of farm animals, which younger visitors always enjoy.
01373 823028 | ffc.ac.uk/services
HERITAGE FINE FOODS
Local Delivery This year order your Christmas food from Heritage Fine Foods and enjoy the freshness of their produce for your most important meal of the year. Delivery is FREE and every box order contains a free gift too.
Last Christmas Heritage delivered nearly 1,500 Christmas boxes from their Devizes base to local homes in the week up to Christmas. They will be launching their Christmas orders page on their website in early November and will be delivering from Monday 20 to Thursday 23 December. Contrary to reports in the press they foresee no issues with availability of product or delivery slots.
Heritage Fine Foods enjoy a fantastic relationship with local farmers and other food artisans which gives them a great supply of seasonal produce as well as being able to offer produce which cannot be bought from supermarkets. The team looks forward to serving you and wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
01380 860968 | 5adaybox.co.uk
HOLLYCHOCS
Poulshot Lodge Farm, nr Devizes Hollychocs is a multi-award-winning family run chocolate studio created by chocolate engineer Holly Garner. With a degree in chemical engineering and a successful career at Cadbury behind her she brings a scientific approach to the creation of delicious handmade chocolates. The company works in an ethical and eco-friendly way using only the finest Fairtrade (and where possible, locally-sourced) ingredients and high-quality biodegradable packaging. Their studio shop is open for you to browse Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays between 10am and 2pm where you can find their award-winning chocolates alongside bake-at-home kits, wedding favours, limited edition monthly boxes and much more. They are currently selling delicious advent calendars and have a wide range of gift boxes available too. If you can’t make it to the studio you can buy online too.
info@hollychocs.co.uk | hollychocs.co.uk
At Hollychocs you will find stunningly tasty chocolates, gift boxes, bake at home kits and more
Little Sugarush can create bespoke gift boxes filled with your favourite treats
LITTLE SUGARUSH
7 Maristow Street, Westbury Little Sugarush is an independent sweet shop in Westbury that’s the perfect place to head if you are buying for someone with a sweet tooth, whatever their age! Their emporium of sugared delights is packed with more than 90 pick ‘n’ mix options, a huge selection of traditional sweets as well as milkshakes, slushies (these are BOGOF every Thursday!), soft drinks and much more.
If you need to please a crowd they have large mixed sweet boxes in stock and you can also create a personalised gift box full of someone’s favourite sweet treats!
07563 130275 | fb.com/littlesugarush
MELKSHAM MILK STATION
Eastern Way, Melksham Melksham Milk Station is part of a family run business based at Snarlton Farm. Open from 7.30am until 7.30pm 7 days a week the station is a self-service vending machine, selling glass milk bottles, fresh milk, milkshake syrup, butter, cheese, honey, Marshfield Ice cream and eggs. They also sell Christmas trees every year from the end of November. They also have a beautiful florist Elsie Mayflower just next door; if you get stuck with the vending machine feel free to pop in to see her and she will be more than happy to help you. Follow and like their Facebook page to keep up-todate with all upcoming events and new products.
Melksham Milk Station is a self-service farm shop!
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PENLEIGH FARM & BUTCHERS
5 Stony Street, Frome Penleigh Farm & Butchers is an award-winning butchers in Frome. As farmers themselves, they pride themselves on being a bit different, producing all the pork and lamb for the shop from their own rare breed pigs and sheep. Beef from traditional British breeds, free range chicken and game are all sourced from within a 30 mile radius of Frome, and all meat comes from the finest quality produce from ethical high welfare farmers. They also hand make all their sausages, faggots and stock Wiltshire dry cured bacon.
Pengleigh have got Christmas covered, with free range white and bronze turkeys, geese, ducks, B6 Ashville Centre, Commerce Way, Melksham Christmas is an exceptionally busy time in the hospitality industry and this year is so much more important than ever, bearing in mind that last Christmas is best forgotten! Lovejoys helps out its customers when needed by having a fully equipped prep room for when they are understaffed or under pressure.
Lovejoys Wholesale is renowned for the quality of the vegetables it supplies; when in season it sources from Wiltshire and surrounding counties, supplying restaurants and hotels in Bath and West Wilts direct from their base in Melksham every day. They are one of very few companies that still go to the market to view the product and buy the very best quality produce fresh on the day, this makes them unique.
This Christmas they are supplying most of their vegetables from Bromham, potatoes from Corsham and their Brussels sprouts from near Chippenham. You can’t get more local than that!
Not only restaurants and hotels take advantage of the lovely fresh veg. All Lovejoys’ school customers will be cooking a wonderful Christmas lunch for their pupils and staff, celebrating a better school term than they have had in the last 18 months. Lovejoys supplies many local schools so if you are a school or college give them a ring and they can discuss their schools service with you.
Alongside fresh fruit and veg they also provide a full service of bread, milk, dairy and ambient larder ingredients for your kitchen.
venison and their exceptional beef, which is aged to a minimum of 28 days. The turkeys are from a local farmer, where they are dry plucked and game hung for a couple of weeks to allow the flavour to develop. These are truly special and certainly different to the usual Christmas turkey.
Christmas orders are now being taken, you can pop in for a form or email penleighbutchers@gmail. com. There is also a special offer on boneless turkey breast joints running from now until December, with large savings available if you want to buy now and freeze until the big day.
01373 472331 | penleighfarm.co.uk
Penleigh Farm & Butchers
POULSHOT LODGE FARM
Poulshot, Nr Devizes SN10 1RQ At the end of an exciting year for this family-run farm shop, in which they took over the running of their local village pub, Christmas is set to be an even bigger celebration with plenty of pigs in blankets to go round.
As well as their own farm-reared, grass fed beef, all the fresh produce sold in the shop and served in The Raven is fully traceable from field to fork and comes from local farmers they know and trust.
There are two master butchers in the shop who are always on hand to advise you on the best quality ingredients for any festive feast and would be happy to introduce you to alternative cuts of meat that may inspire your recipe repertoire. You’ll even find a good selection of craft beers, spirits, wines, artisan chocolates and gourmet brownies to bring even more Christmas cheer.
With a new chef at the helm of the pub, the Christmas menu will be available from 1 December and promises plenty of delicious, seasonal surprises.
01380 827202 | poulshotlodgefarm.co.uk
SPOTTY DOG FARM SHOP
Lower Farm, Rowde, Devizes Whatever your Christmas plans end up looking like for this year, at Spotty Dog Farm Shop you can get all your gifts and foodie treats under one roof. As a fully stocked farm shop you can order your Christmas meat and pick up delicious seasonal veg as well as cheeses, jams and chutneys, breads, artisan confectionary, chocolate, drinks and a whole lot more. Order online or pop in for a booking form.
That’s not all though, Spotty Dog Farm Shop is also a gift shop with ideas for every member of the family. Stuck for a gift idea? Their gift hampers are always popular and always appreciated – choose one of the selections or pick your own
Poulshot Lodge has full traceability of everything they stock
Meet Santa at Spotty Dog Farm Shop this Christmas
Still Sisters gin is made by two sisters in Frome using a bespoke copper still called Storm 01373 474647 | stillsisters.co.uk
TOBY HAYNES
32 High Street, Corsham Toby Haynes traditional family butchers opened on Corsham High Street in late 2015. Six years on and it has established a great local reputation for selling high quality meat at very reasonable prices; winning multiple awards in the process, including being voted Best Butcher in the South West by the Countryside Alliance Awards. Toby Haynes endeavours to source all its meat from the local area, including free range chicken, traditional grass finished beef and wonderful seasonal game. As well as that they also make their own sausages and pies inhouse – delicious!
With expert advice from their friendly staff, you needn’t go anywhere else when looking for a great turkey this Christmas. Theirs are free range and can be bought whole, butterflied or crowned. They also have goose, duck, cockerel as well as gammon, ham, rib of beef and all your favourite Christmas trimmings too. Call or pop in to find out more or to place your order, or alternatively order on the website.
choice of gifts and they will make a hamper up for you. They also have a huge selection of their range online too so you can choose to shop in whichever way suits you best!
You can also bring children to meet Santa and play in the snow at Spotty Dog Farm Shop this Christmas! Choose your time slot and book up to 4 tickets to see Santa. He’ll be in his Grotto located in their Christmas Courtyard, he’ll be reading stories from his special storybook and telling them the secrets of his magic key! Children with Gift Tickets will receive
a lovely Christmas Eve box filled with special gifts and treats that will make them smile and after they meet Santa they’ll be guided outside to play in the snow! Book online today!
STILL SISTERS
Ashton Park, Handlemaker Road, Frome Still Sisters’ range of London Dy Gin is made by two sisters, in Frome, in a bespoke copper 50 litre still called Storm. Their award-winning creations are blended using locally grown and sourced botanicals from local family businesses.
Join Still Sisters for a Gin-filled Christmas! Their Gin & Christmas Tapas packages run from Mon 22 November - Sat 18 December. The packages offer you the chance to enjoy a selection of Christmas tapas served with gin samples, and a double gin and tonic distilled on-site in Frome. Call or book your table online!
Alternatively, they are also hosting Christmas Shopping nights on every Thursday from 25 November, where you can find the perfect gift for gin lovers, as well as other locally sourced items. Mix and match the perfect present with their gift boxes,
01249 713253 | corshambutcher.co.uk
