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01 The Millstone Hotel 06 Food by Breda Murphy finest countryside and cuisine and countryside finest Road

a Church Lane, Mellor, BB2 7JR a Abbots Court, 41 Station Road, Whalley, Lancashire, BB7 9RH A guide to some of ’s of some to guide A t 01254 813333 w www.millstonehotel.co.uk t 01254 823446 w www.foodbybredamurphy.com

Chipping Lane Open noon to 9.30pm Monday to Saturday and noon to 9pm Sunday, Church Brow Open 10am to 6pm Tuesday to Saturday dinner 6.30 to 9.30pm Railway View Chaigley Road STATION 18 Tucked away from Whalley’s main street, Chef patron Anson and his wife Higher Road this gem of a restaurant and deli is bright, rk Street Vicky took over the Millstone, which dates Yo airy and modern. Authentic dishes are back to the mid-1700s, when the Edlestone llows Park Lane created on-site, with a modern twist Barnacre Road Wi family (village farmers, wheelwrights, 15 King Street14 34 and healthier lifestyle in mind. Breda blacksmiths and millers) started selling ale Poplar Drive sources her food locally from butchers to supplement their income. It became a We in Clitheroe and Longridge, Wellgate ll Gate Wheatley Drive Wellbrow Drive coaching inn and today is a busy village Fisheries, Swarbrick’s Chickens, Jackson’s

Station Road Green Lane New Market Street 35 pub, with award-winning food. Anson King Lane 16 17 Creamery and free-range eggs from farms in Chipping and . Her is a great supporter of Johnson and Berry Lane Halfpenny Lane enue Swarbrick’s famous duck and terloo Road impressive career started at the famous 12 enue Wa one of the most popular menu items in the Av Ballymaloe Cookery School in Ireland, 11 Castle Street Calder Av Mersey Street Jeffrey bar is duck spring rolls with plum sauce SWAN 13 Higher Road where she graduated and became the COURTYARD and cucumber. Other local suppliers 10 enue academy’s youngest ever teacher. Following spells in top kitchens in London and include Huntley’s of Salmesbury and Penny’s of , and the seasonal Lowergate Derby Road Ireland, she took over as award-winning head chef at the Inn at . Food by menu features a host of local products, including braised Pendle lamb shank with Breda Murphy’s menus are infl uenced by her wide personal culinary knowledge rson Lane Berry Lane

spring onion champ. Pa and experience from Ireland, South East Asia and local classic British dishes.

Av ndsor Wi Dilworth Lane (B5269) OS Grid Reference: SD 65113093 Castlegate Calfcote Lane OS Grid Reference: SD 72943643 36 Preston Road (B6245) Victoria Street Road (B5269)

Whittingham Road (B5269)

02 Fairfield Farm Shop Lowergate 07 Freemasons Arms Square lkin Kestor Lane (B5269) Wi a Fairfield Farm, Longsight Road, Clayton-le-Dale, Blackburn BB2 7JA B6478 a 8 Vicarage Fold, , Clitheroe, BB7 9DF t 01254 822218 t 01254 812550 w www.fairfieldfarm.co.uk w www.freemasonswiswell.co.uk Open noon to 2pm and 6 to 9.30pm Highfield Road Open 10am to 6pm Tuesday to Saturday and 10am to 3pm Sunday Moor Lane Wednesday to Saturday and noon to 8pm Sunday el Street Pe Phil and Louise Edge run this exceptional Lower Lane (B6243) Finding this one is a little tricky, but get butchery, which has a strong philosophy of your sat-nav to work and you will fi nd Preston Road (B6244) A65 complete integrity about its products. a great eating destination at this small

Pork sold in the shop is from the adjoining 33 Riverone Lane Wyre village inn run by Ian Martin, who is a farm and , bacon, ham and Wo real character. The main menu is on a Eshton Te SUPERSTORE blackboard, which changes daily, so gammon are produced on-site and in full Queensway view of the public. Fairfi eld’s range has rrace seasonal ingredients are stars of the

expanded to cover local chicken, beef, show. Duck, chicken and liver is supplied

lamb, eggs, seasonal vegetables and A682 by Johnson and Swarbrick, pork by . The shop has won many awards Greenacre Bowland Outdoor Reared, Dexter beef Food Trail Food for its quality products raised with care by Roy Porter at and fi sh by

Street 09 Giles St. and produced from farm to plate with CLITHEROE Neves at . Local cheese and

experience, intelligence and passion. Queens Road great Lancashire beer are part of the impressive line-up, with Formby asparagus and the fi rst Lancashire new potatoes, OS Grid Reference: SD65173213 Valley Ribble Dunsop just a taste of what’s on offer. Bridge B6251

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03 Mrs Dowson’s Ice Cream . The 28 WHITEWELL A59 a Hawkshaw Farm, Longsight Road, Clayton le Dale, Blackburn, BB2 7JA . 08 The Three Fishes t 01254 812407 w www.mrsdowsons.co.uk B6478 Phone for opening times a Mitton Road, Mitton, Whalley, Lancashire, BB7 9PQ t 01254 826888 w www.thethreefishes.com From humble beginnings in 2002, Mrs Open noon to 11pm Monday to Saturday and noon to 10.30pm Sunday Dowson’s Ice Cream is now widely available 20 from many farm shops and outlets in Ribble CHATBURN DOWNHAM B6251 Nigel Haworth and Craig Bancroft of Valley. Increasingly reducing any additives Bashall . Northcote Manor-fame purchased the Waddington . 19 and e-numbers, raw milk is sourced from M6 CHIPPING Eaves Bashall 400-year-old Three Fishes in 2004, Dowson’s farm and Ribble Valley producers, . Town carrying out a sensitive refurbishment. 29 Walker 22 A682 and locally picked wild fruit provides Fold 27 At least 95 per cent of the menu is locally 31 sourced, with a platter of 10 different seasonal fl avours. The ice cream also A6 30 CLITHEROE Every year legions of tourists visit the Lake District, one includes local products, such as cookie 26 23 . Lancashire , Ireland’s famous from Cottage Cookies in , 24 SEE INSET , Bowland fresh meat and of Europe’s great natural landscapes, but the canny ones iconic Uncle Joe’s mint balls from Wigan house-cured meats from Lancashire and head for an area 40 miles south where Her Majesty Queen and traditional sweets from Stockley’s, Mitre Cumbria. With garden terraces in the Elizabeth II has said she would like to retire. Welcome to Sweets and the producers of rock. . summer, crackling log fi res in the winter, friendly and knowledgeable staff, the best Ribble Valley. OS Grid Reference: SD 65553216 32 08 13 cask ales from Thwaites and other local Hurst Green 25 brewers, it is no surprise that the Three Fishes has scooped many major national At 300 square miles, most of which is in the Forest of Lancaster B6246 07 awards in recent years. Canal LONGRIDGE 33 WISWELL Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Ribble B6243 . 12 OS Grid Reference: SD 71433900 04 The White Bull SEE INSET . Valley is the largest district in Lancashire, but it has the B5269 River Ribble WHALLEY a Church Street, , Lancashire, PR3 3XP RIBCHESTER 06 . smallest population – around 54,000. Its two market t 01254 878303 w www.whitebullrib.co.uk . B6245 05 A6080 towns, Clitheroe and Longridge, and 44 villages are set Open noon to 2.30pm Tuesday to Saturday and noon to 8pm Sunday 04 M65 09 Waterfield’s in a peaceful and unspoilt landscape offering panoramic This new addition to the Ribble Valley food 32 A671 a 44/46 Whalley Road, Clitheroe, BB7 1AW t 01200 444500 scene is dedicated to children – and their . views and a rich heritage. A59 A6114 Open 8am to 5pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, parents will have a fantastic meal, too! 1 A666 B6243 A680 11 and 9am to 5pm Saturday What visitors might not realise, however, is that Ribble One-year-old Billy Bell was the inspiration 02 31a 10 for parents Kath and Chris to start this A6 . You will fi nd Waterfi eld’s hidden behind Valley is home to some of the North West’s best food and venture, so junior customers have their 03 A678 9 a red shop frontage in Clitheroe’s drink. An array of wonderful foods - meat from traditional own blackboard menu, a great selection of 8 Whalley Road. It sells a wide range of games and an outdoor play area. Chris may M6 MELLOR A646 Mediterranean products, meat from Lancashire breeds, organic milk and cheese, yogurt and have an international CV, including head . Roy Porter, Leagram’s organic cheese ice-cream, handmade chocolate, pies and pastries, and a chef at Heathcote’s, training with Paul Rankin 01 A6119 and free range eggs from a nearby A677 feast of fruit and vegetables packed with natural flavour - at Roscoff’s and the Northern Ireland Chef 31 7 allotment. Proprietor Neal Waterfi eld has of the Year Award, but there is nothing fussy PRESTON worked for , Marco Pierre can be found at shops and restaurants along the borough’s . or pretentious about his cooking. Vegetables A56 White and Giorgio Locatelli, and has also 6 leafy lanes and in its historic towns and villages. come from Ribchester’s allotments, pork from Alan Davies at Pinfold Farm, meat been head chef at Northcote Manor and from Brendan Anderton and the Ribble Valley Meat Company, and cheese from Mrs Devonshire Arms. He and wife Joanne aim Kirkham’s. Proper pub food needs a proper village pub, and the White Bull fi ts the bill ACCRINGTON So, welcome to Ribble Valley, where you will find all the BLACKBURN . RIBBLE to provide people with the knowledge nicely. It is also very much part of Ribchester’s Roman heritage – the four columns at A675 . to prepare, cook and serve simple good ingredients for a perfect rural escape and plenty to whet its entrance that are thought to have been part of a Roman temple. 30 Italian, Spanish or English food. Their ever-evolving business now includes a tapas VALLEY bar, busy outside catering business and ready meals. Try their grouse parfait, your appetite. OS Grid Reference: SD 65043520 A582 A674 because you will not fi nd it anywhere else! 5 9 OS Grid Reference: SD 74224132 1a 29 4 05 Northcote Manor 2 3 M65 M61 a Northcote Road, Langho, Blackburn, BB6 8BE 10 Weezos, The Old Toll House t 01254 240555 w www.northcotemanor.com Phone for bookings and opening times a The Old Toll House, 1-5 Parson Lane, Clitheroe, BB7 2JP The Millstone Hotel Waterfield’s Wellgate Fisheries The Bayley Arms The Corporation Arms t 01200 424478 w www.weezos.co.uk Northcote Manor’s chef patron Nigel 01 09 17 25 33 Open 7pm to late Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays Haworth has probably done more than any other local chef to champion the cause 02 Fairfield Farm Shop 10 Weezos, The Old Toll House 18 Cheesie Tchaikovsky 26 The Heifer 34 The Longridge Restaurant Chef Stosie Madi’s main culinary of local food producers. Local suppliers infl uence is French, with lots of English Further details about the Ribble Valley Food Trail are available thrown into her excellent food, which she are genuinely valued by Nigel and Craig Mrs Dowson’s Ice Cream Cowman’s Butchers Roy Porter Butchers The Red Pump Inn Thyme from www.ribblevalleyfoodtrail.co.uk Bancroft, his joint managing director. 03 11 19 27 35 terms “modern European.” Retaining its coveted Michelin star for Situated close to Clitheroe Market, it is Please note inclusion on the trail does not imply endorsement by Ribble Valley Borough Council or its partners. 10 years, Northcote is enjoying growing 04 The White Bull 12 Mansell’s Coffee Shop 20 Hudsons Ices 28 The Inn at Whitewell 36 Tina’s Corner Bakery no surprise that Stosie haunts D. Burney’s national and international acclaim as a fi ne vegetable stall for some of the best fresh food destination. It is hard to fi nd anything 05 Northcote Manor 13 Taste @ Clitheroe 21 La Locanda 29 Leagram Organic Dairy Hospitality vegetables available, as well as sourcing on the seasonally changing menu that is not meat from Brendan Anderton’s in sourced locally. Game comes from Eaves Retail Longridge and Roy Porter’s in Chatburn. A guide to some of England’s Farm, corn-fed chicken from Goosnargh, 06 Food by Breda Murphy 14 D. Byrne & Co 22 Cocomoyo 30 Gibbon Bridge Hotel Wild Lune salmon and other great fi sh vegetables from farms around Hesketh Bank, milk and dairy products from Simson’s This map is reproduced from Ordnance Survey material is supplied by Wellgate Fisheries in finest countryside and cuisine. and you will fi nd delicious ways with Bay shrimps and the best quality 07 Freemasons Arms 15 Harrison and Kerr 23 Bowland Brewery 31 Robinson Bros Butchers with the permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of the Clitheroe, poultry from Goosnargh and Bowland beef. Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Offi ce © Crown cheeses from Mrs Kirkham’s, Butler’s and Singleton’s. copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown OS Grid Reference: SD 70623487 copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. OS Grid Reference: SD 74204177 www.ribblevalley.gov.uk 08 The Three Fishes 16 Exchange Coffee Company 24 Bashall Barn 32 Little Town Dairy 100018641. 2008.

RVFood Trail thirdA4_FINAL.indd 1 25/2/08 14:43:03 12 Mansell’s Coffee Shop 17 Wellgate Fisheries 22 Cocomoyo 27 The Red Pump Inn 32 Little Town Dairy

a 3 Swan Courtyard, Castle Street, Clitheroe, BB7 2DQ t 01200 425129 a 5 Wellgate, Clitheroe, Lancashire BB7 2DS a Dutch Barn, Backridge Farm, Twitter Lane, Waddington, BB7 3LQ a Clitheroe Road, Bashall Eaves, BB7 3DA a Littletown Farm, Chipping Road, Thornley, Lancashire, PR3 2TB Open 9.30am to 4pm Tuesday to Friday, 9.30am to 5pm on Saturday and t 01200 423511 w www.welgatefisheries.co.uk t 01200 444989 w www.cocomoyo.com t 01254 826227 w www.theredpumpinn.co.uk t 01772 782429 w www.littletowndairy.co.uk noon to 4pm on Sunday (from May to October) Open 8.30am to 4.30pm Monday to Saturday Open 9.15am to 3pm Monday to Friday and 10am to 4pm Saturday Open noon to 2.30pm and 6 to 11 pm Tuesday to Friday and noon to Open 9am to 5pm Monday to Saturday and 11am to 4pm Sunday and Sunday 9.00pm Sunday How many men do you know who get up Giles Shaw sold his first fish when he was The same family has farmed at Little Town at the crack of dawn to bake cakes? Steven eight years old and now runs one of the From “coco,” as in chocolate, and “moyo,” This traditional country inn had a real for three generations and it specialises Mansell, proprietor of Mansell’s Coffee best fishmongers in the North, providing which is Swahili for “heart,” chocolates shake-up when Martina and Jonathan in premium products made from the Shop, Clitheroe, lovingly prepares his fantastic fish and seafood to some top at CocoMoyo are handmade on-site at took over in 2005. It now milk of their RSPCA accredited herd. never-to-be-forgotten cakes each morning restaurants. Thanks to a great supplier and Backridge Farm, a new development that is has three new guest rooms, a restaurant, Dairy produce includes crème fraiche, using free-range eggs from a local farm. staff, the same quality is on offer to the worth a visit in its own right. Lisa uses local small café, bar and snug all set in lovely smoothies, luxury thick and creamy Steven and wife Rachel, both trained chefs, public too. The business was founded in milk, cream and eggs from Rugglesmere countryside. The Myerscoughs believe that yogurts, with real fruit pieces and a offer unique and distinct lunches, which 1939 by Jack Hall and the Shaw’s took it Farm at Bashall Eaves to make her “fresh is best,” both in sourcing produce mouth-watering range of farmhouse ice are freshly prepared each day using over 50 years later. Giles’s philosophy is chocolates, which include blended, single and the on-site preparation of food. Extra cream. Beef in the shop is family-farm local produce and served by friendly simply to buy the very best fish available, estate and origin chocolate, with some very matured beef is from farms on , Aberdeen Angus, pork is from outdoor- and professional staff. Their oak-smoked with little regard to the price. The fish is special truffles. One of the most popular lamb is from Bowland and Bolton Abbey, reared Saddleback pigs and Little Town salmon is from Mackenzies ethically sourced where possible and, options for the true chocaholic are 1kg chicken and duck is from Johnson and lambs produce top quality meat. They Smokehouse, while the beef for Steven’s as well as supporting the Manchester slabs of white, milk or dark chocolate with Swarbrick in Longridge, and cheese is also sell freshly baked bread, cakes and popular steak, mushroom and black sheep ale pie is from Mellin’s Butchers in wholesale fish market, he often buys direct from the coast. Seasonal offerings additions that you can choose yourself. from Proctor’s, as well as a huge range of pies, a wide range of jams, preserves and local honey, as well as pickles, chutneys Nelson, which sources cattle from the Pendle area. include wild sea bass, brown shrimps, flooks, whitebait, mullet, wild sea trout and game from local estates. Local ales are from Brewhouse, Moorland and and sauces, and seasonal vegetables. You can watch the cows being milked as OS Grid Reference: SD 71854272 locally caught wild salmon from the . Bowland Breweries. part of your visit. OS Grid Reference: SD74374179 OS Grid Reference: SD 74534185 OS Grid Reference: SD 69584318 OS Grid Reference: SD 60883912

13 Taste @ Clitheroe 23 Bowland Brewery Cheesie Tchaikovsky 28 The Inn at Whitewell a 2 Swan Courtyard, Off Castle Street, Clitheroe, BB7 2DQ 18 a The Bowland Beer Company Ltd, Bashall Town, Clitheroe, BB7 3LQ 33 The Corporation Arms t 01200 442006 w www.tasteatclitheroe.co.uk t 01200 443592 w www.bowlandbrewery.com a , Clitheroe, Lancashire, BB7 3AT a 38 York Street, Clitheroe, BB7 2DL t 01200 428366 a Lower Road, Longridge, Preston PR3 2YJ Open 9.30am to 5pm Tuesday to Friday and 9am to 5pm Saturday Open 9am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday and 10am to 5.30pm Saturday t 01200 448222 w www.innatwhitewell.com Open 8.30am to 2pm Monday, 8.30am to 4.30pm Tuesday to Friday t 01772 782644 w www.corporationarms-longridge.co.uk and Sunday Open all day, lunch noon to 2pm, dinner 7.30 to 9.30pm A relative newcomer, Taste is in Swan and 8.30am to 3pm Saturday Open noon to 9pm Sunday to Thursday and noon to 9.30pm Friday and Saturday Courtyard – look out for the cobbled Cheesie Tchaikovsky is a specialist cheese Bowland Brewery makes handcrafted real Run by the Bowman family since 1973, the The entrance between the Swan and Royal shop and delicatessen with an evolving and ales and sells them to around 100 local Inn at Whitewell is a traditional country inn Known locally as “The Corpor,” the Hotel and Banana News. Deliberately and businesses. Look out for “Sawley Tempted,” in an unrivalled Forest of Bowland setting, diverse range of UK and continental artisan- building dates back to 1750 and in the actively sourcing the best “produce with “Bowland Gold,” “Chipping Steamer,” with quirky family, sporting and hunting made cheese. Jan and Jane are dedicated early 1900s hosted livestock auctions a conscience,” Taste is a delicatessen and “Hen Harrier” and “Bowland Dragon” memorabilia, log fires and a warm welcome. to their customers and it is easy to leave the and competitions. The Macneil and café bar specialising in local, organic and beers in pubs and restaurants around A refurbishment and extension a couple shop laden with more than intended! There Proctor families purchased it in 2004 and fair trade produce, including a wide range Ribble Valley. The range is made using of years ago ensures a peaceful spot for Ribble Valley is great cheese from Rungis Market in Paris turned it back into a family-run country of , Bowland Outdoor only the finest malted barley and the fullest a delicious meal, including a new dining and continental suppliers, but Jan is careful inn. Straightforward, great quality pub Reared pork and beef, Farmhouse Fare flavoured hops. You can buy bottled beers room overlooking the River Hodder and to include the best local produce, including food, sometimes with a continental twist, organic puddings, Alston Dairy produce, from Bashall Barn, which is attached to its lovely valley. Most of the food, including some of Lancashire’s best-known. Visit on is the order of the day. Meat comes Bowland spring water, Clitheroe honey and the brewery visitor centre, including “Sky meat and game, is sourced locally, as well as Thursday, Friday or Saturday and you will from Brendan Anderton’s in Longridge, Food Trail Lower Gazegill Farm organic meats. You Dancer,” “Cromwell Stout” and “Headless homegrown herbs and fruit. Bread is baked find homemade bread on the counter. vegetables are supplied by Ribble Farm, can “try before you buy” from the café and takeaway menus include freshly made Peg.” The brewery’s visitor centre is a beer on-site and fresh puddings are made every Stone-ground organic or biodynamic flour dairy products are from Gornall’s in soup, quiche, , cakes and desserts. enthusiast’s heaven, with displays and lots of beer-related items on offer. day. Menu favourites from chef Jamie Cadman include Whitewell fisherman’s pie and from the Little Salkeld Mill in Cumbria is used and there are traditional techniques and fish comes from the Fish and minimal amounts of yeast in the range, which usually includes breads that Cumberland . The Ribble Valley Food Trail is a Ribble Valley Borough OS Grid Reference: SD 74314176 OS Grid Reference: SD 71094206 House in Clitheroe, and Neve’s in Fleetwood. Menu favourites include steak and ale incorporate spelt, four grain and seed, rye and pesto. OS Grid Reference: SD 65914690 pie and . Council initiative. It is part of Taste Lancashire 08, a year OS Grid Reference: SD 74554201 OS Grid Reference: SD 61823731 of events, activities and promotions co-ordinated by the 14 D. Byrne & Co Lancashire and Blackpool Tourist Board aimed at promoting 24 Bashall Barn 29 Leagram Organic Dairy Lancashire producers, farmers’ markets, up-and-coming a Victoria Buildings, 12 King Street, Clitheroe, BB7 2EP chefs and fine foods. t 01200 423152 w www.dbyrne-finewines.co.uk 19 Roy Porter Butchers a Bashall Town, Clitheroe, Lancashire, BB7 3LQ a Moss Lane, Chipping, PR3 2QT 34 The Longridge Restaurant Open 8.30am to 6pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday, t 01200 428964 w www.bashallbarn.co.uk t 01995 61532 w www.cheese-experience.com and 8.30am to 8pm Thursday and Friday a 9 Bridge Road, Chatburn, Clitheroe, BB7 4AW t 01200 441392 Open 9am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday and 10am to 5.30pm Saturday Open 8am to 5pm Monday to Friday, or phone for a weekend visit a 104-106 Higher Road, Longridge, Preston, PR3 3SY An independent panel comprising food and tourism experts Open 7.30am to 12.30pm Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, and Sunday t 01772 784969 w www.heathcotes.co.uk One of the best-known Clitheroe institutions Bob Kitching has brought the art of and writers from throughout Ribble Valley compiled the trail, and 7.30am to 5.30pm Tuesday, Thursday and Friday Open noon to 2.30pm and 6 to 10pm Tuesday to Friday, and a magnet for fine wine lovers from This family business, based on a working cheesemaking alive for thousands 5 to 10pm Saturday, noon to 3.30pm and 6.30 to 8.30pm Sunday which features 36 restaurants, inns, shops and delicatessens across the North, D. Byrne & Co is a Customers come from far and wide to dairy farm, opened just as the foot and of people in his popular and unique multi-award winning independent wine buy meat, mainly native breeds sourced mouth epidemic hit Ribble Valley in 2001. demonstrations around the country. You can Restaurateur Paul Heathcote is a on a dedicated map. merchants run by the founder’s great locally or from long-standing suppliers in Six years hard work later, it is one of the buy his great cheeses direct from the dairy Lancashire legend. His book, Rhubarb grandsons, Andrew, Philip and Tim Byrne. Aberdeenshire, from this small traditional larger farm shops in the area and has an or find his completely organic products in and Black Pudding, written with leading Outlets on the trail were selected for their outstanding Regularly attracting glowing write-ups, village butcher. One of only 60 or so excellent and expanding range of local many local outlets. Sheep Milk UK, one of food writer Matthew Fort, was one of licensed organic butchers in the UK, Roy goodies and a thriving café/restaurant. the first cookbooks to feature the joys commitment to local produce, high quality foodstuffs and this gem of a wine shop stretches into the country’s largest producers of sheep labyrinthine cellars that run under King has a loyal clientele who enjoy the fact that Sausages are from the Ribble Valley milk, is on the Leagram Estate and Leagram of Lancashire food and producers. excellent customer service. Street and are little changed from when the majority of the bacon and ham he sells Meat Company in Ribchester and there Dairy uses their organic milk to make The recently refurbished Longridge the shop was built in the Victorian era. The is dry cured on the premises. He also sells is also Lancashire cheese from Proctor’s, sheep’s cheese. Organic creamy, crumbly, Restaurant now has Gordon Ramsay- The trail has received funding from the Lancashire Rural wines are from all over the world and the a dozen varieties of home made sausage, coffee and Lancashire tea from the Coffee mature and soft Lancashire cheese is made trained James Holah as head chef. Paul Byrne brothers’ expert and regular buying as well as delicious hot and cold pies, and Exchange. Much of the food is made on-site and, for those that enjoy Lancashire has always been passionate about local Tourism Initiative, which is funded by the Lancashire Rural trips, and unrivalled relationships with many wineries, ensure that some of the best a range of Lancashire cheese. Roy extracts on-site, including brownies, flapjacks and cheese with additions, there are many flavoured versions. Bob’s milk is sourced from sourcing: his meat is from Pugh’s Piglets Recovery Action Plan and supported by the North West wines can be found here. You have to go there to appreciate their stunning ranges. maximum tenderness and flavour from his cakes, as well as popular ready meals, such as cottage and fish pies, casseroles and farmers Mr Parkinson at Inglewhite and Mr Sanderson at . and Reg Johnson, and his cheese from meat by hanging Dexter, Hereford, Angus and Highland beef, Herdwick hogget and lasagnes. Beer is from the Bowland Brewery next door (see above). Adrian Hill’s Fine Foods. OS Grid Reference: SD 74334192 OS Grid Reference: SD 63294271 Development Agency, and the Lancashire and Blackpool mutton lamb, Gloucester Old Spot, Tamworth and Saddleback pork, for the correct OS Grid Reference: SD 71094206 OS Grid Reference: SD 61143772 Tourist Board. times. He always stocks in-season game. OS Grid Reference: SD 76794409 15 Harrison and Kerr 30 Gibbon Bridge Hotel a 11-13 King Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire, BB7 2EU t 01200 423253 25 The Bayley Arms a Chipping, Forest of Bowland, Lancashire, PR3 2TQ 35 Thyme Open 7am to 5.30pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 20 Hudsons Ices t 01995 61456 w www.gibbon-bridge.co.uk a 1-3 Inglewhite Road, Longridge, Preston, Lancashire PR3 2RW 7am to noon Wednesday and 6am to 3pm Saturday a Avenue Road, Hurst Green, Clitheroe, BB7 9QB See web site for opening times t 01772 786888 w www.thyme-restaurant.co.uk a The Old Toll House, 2 Downham Road, Chatburn, Clitheroe, BB7 4AU t 01254 826478 w www.bayleyarms.co.uk Open noon to 2pm and 6 to 9.30pm Tuesday to Saturday, Long-term employee Roger Hope took over t 01200 441305 Open noon to 2pm and 6 to 9.30 pm Monday to Friday and noon to 9.30pm Janet Simpson created the Gibbon Bridge noon to 8pm Sunday this traditional butchers last year and keeps Open 9am to 6pm Monday to Friday and 10am to 6pm Saturday and Saturday and Sunday Hotel from the family farm, incorporating the flag flying for old-fashioned customer Sunday (closed Monday in winter) Gothic masonry from a dismantled church This popular restaurant is an unassuming, service. Fresh pies are baked daily by Cliff This historic pub and B&B close to the in Blackburn. Since opening in 1982, bright and busy brasserie offering Ferguson and Hanson’s in , poultry is The main ingredients for this sought-after famous Jesuit college, , dates to the Gibbon Bridge has been a staunch quality cooking from chef Alex Coward, from Atkinson’s of and pork comes and uniquely fresh ice cream could not the 1670s, when the Bayley family owned supporter of local producers, such as who mixes traditional Lancashire fare from Preston Meats, while game is supplied be more local, with milk coming from the college and its estate. The Bayley Arms Leagram’s Dairy, Johnson and Swarbrick, with ethnic influences from his travels, by Ian Scott of the Gledstone Estate. Farmer Thornber’s and eggs from . The ice sources as much as possible locally and Brendan Anderton, Bowland Brewery such as sea bass with pak choi. Local Edward Jackson from Wiswell has been cream is handmade without preservatives in season, offering good value food from a and Ann Forshaw’s. As much as possible suppliers include Tina’s Corner Bakery, supplying them with free-range turkeys by owners Mark and Mandy Paul in the large and varied menu, including Bowland is produced at the hotel, with fresh fruit, A guide to some of England’s Ribble Farm Fare, the Ribblesdale Wine for over 20 years. As well as buffets and original dairy at the back of the shop. lamb and beef, Goosnargh chicken, Mrs including raspberries, plums, tomatoes Company, Carefoot’s Butchers, Butler’s finest countryside and cuisine outside catering, the delicatessen side of Their ice cream is so much in demand that Kirkham’s cheese, Brendan Anderton’s and blackberries, and vegetables, such cheese, meat from Brendan Anderton the business boasts Harrison’s own-cooked they can hardly keep up and the expanding sausages, gammon and black pudding as cauliflower, carrots, beans and herbs, range of flavours includes gooseberry, and Goosnargh duck. Further details about the Ribble Valley Food Trail are beef, which is prepared on-site with no additives, and the resulting delicious stock is from Andrew Ireland, and ice cream and coming from the hotel gardens. Janet’s passion for baking is reflected in an in-house also sold through the shop. There are three sorts of black puddings, including a “low blackcurrant, damsons and cranberries in milk from Mrs Dowson’s. Top menu hits are bakery that produces fresh bread and desserts daily. available from www.ribblevalleyfoodtrail.co.uk fat” version from Phil Cross and a “higher fat” version that they make themselves. season with much of the fresh fruit sourced the homemade Bayley steak pudding with OS Grid Reference: SD 63724244 from . proper suet pastry and the chef’s special crème brulees. OS Grid Reference: SD 60143761 OS Grid Reference: SD 74284193 OS Grid Reference: SD 76954413 OS Grid Reference: SD 68453814 11 Cowman’s Butchers 31 Robinson Bros Butchers 16 Exchange Coffee Company 36 Tina’s Corner Bakery a The Famous Sausage Shop, 13 Castle Street, Clitheroe, BB7 2BT 21 La Locanda a Wilsden, Road, Chipping, Preston, Lancashire, PR3 2QH t 01200 423842 w www.cowmans.co.uk a 24 Wellgate, Clitheroe, BB7 2DP t 01200 442270 26 The Craven Heifer t 01995 61234 or 01995 61515 a 76 Derby Road, Longridge, Preston, Lancashire PR3 3FE Open 7.30am to 5.30pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 8am to Open 9am to 5.30pm Monday to Saturday a Main Street, Gisburn, Clitheroe, Lancashire, BB7 4HH Open 9am to noon Monday, 9am to 5.30pm Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, t 01772 782514 12.30pm Wednesday and 7am to 4.30pm Saturday t 01200 445303 w www.lalocanda.co.uk a Chipping Road, Chaigley, BB7 3LX 9am to 1pm Wednesday and 9am to 1pm Saturday Open 8am to 4pm Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, Raise your nose to the air in Clitheroe’s Open 6 to 10.30pm Tuesday to Saturday and 4 to 10pm Sunday t 01254 826215 w www.cravenheiferchaigley.co.uk and 8am to 2pm Wednesday and Saturday “The shopping streets of Clitheroe are full Wellgate and it will not take you long to find See web site for opening times Founded in 1906 by the grandfather of of a pleasing sense that local endeavour this speciality coffee and tea merchants La Locanda might look tiny from the outside, present owners Mark and Robert Robinson, It is unusual to find a “proper” bakery has not yet been swept away by big names that stocks over 30 varieties of coffee and but owners Cinzia and Maurizio Bocchi have Word-of-mouth alone has spread the good the family used to have its own abattoir nowadays, but Tina’s is a traditional from big cities. Cowman’s, with its glorious more than 50 loose teas. The company, created an eating space that does not feel news about the great food and service in nearby Longridge, which the foot and bakery, with everything made daily array of local sausages, must be a particular started by Mark Smith from his market stall crowded. This restaurant melds traditional at this family-owned pub at the foot of mouth outbreak and EU regulations forced from flour, yeast and water. You will treat,” wrote David McKie in Great British 25 years ago, is a real success story, with Italian cooking and expertise with local Jeffrey Hill. Chef patron Nick Wharf and them, along with many others, to close. The find great bread, both traditional and Bus Journeys 2006. This shop has been in shops and coffee bars in a number of local produce and a cellar of great Italian wines. locals Alison Ashworth and Susie Dinsdale good news is that this family business in the speciality, such as olive and tomato, the family for over 100 years and free-range towns, as well as a thriving wholesale and Between six and 10 different varieties of opened for business in March 2005 and centre of Chipping is still going strong. The as well as pies, plain, cream and pork comes from Seddon’s in Blackburn, franchise business. The Coffee Exchange’s pasta and 25 different flavours of ice cream have not looked back since. Nick uses Robinsons buy pork and other meat from fruitcakes, and a loyal clientele that and free-range eggs from Kenyon’s in philosophy is that the secret to great coffee are made on-site every day from authentic local suppliers and organic produce where Bowland Forest Foods and source all their particularly likes Tina’s oat biscuits and . In the 1960s, current owner is freshness, so it sources and buys the Italian ingredients. Fresh produce is sourced possible and cooks seasonally influenced meat locally or from Startifants - their own freshly made sandwiches. Tina, who Cliff’s father was ahead of his time, giving best “green” coffee from across the world locally, including meat, milk and cream from special dishes. Anderton’s is the main meat farm at Chipping. They also sell Lancashire has been baking since she left school, up “rubbish and left-over meat scraps” and roasts it on-site. Alongside this, the shop’s café features meat from Harrison Gisburn farms, vegetables from Richard supplier and lamb is bought directly from cheese and a recent diversification is Uncle took over from the previous owner John for quality meat. Cliff has continued this tradition, creating award-winning sausages and Kerr, fish from Wellgate Fisheries, bread from Oakroyd Bakery in Ingleton and Wellock and Sons in Trawden and seafood local farmers. Bob’s dairy ice cream, which is made with milk from their own herd of Ayrshire and Sidgreaves, who in turn ran the bakery made with great ingredients – some of which will definitely surprise! sasparilla from the traditional soft-drinks maker Mawson’s in . from the Fish House in Clitheroe, as well as trout and halibut from the Lancashire coast. Jersey cows and cream from Ken Thornber in Chaigley. for 27 years after acquiring it from founder Mrs Bigley in 1934. OS Grid Reference: SD 74304180 OS Grid Reference: SD 74474187 OS Grid Reference: SD 83094884 OS Grid Reference: SD 66734188 OS Grid Reference: SD 62444266 OS Grid Reference: SD 60093726

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