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Inside Stories

Of course, with an ethos of low food miles and
sustainability, the shop also features products
from many other independent local and
regional producers.
With ample free carparking, the modern Clive
Arms restaurant with rooms, the Ludlow Kitchen
casual eatery, the separate dedicated home
and garden Ludlow Gift Shop, Gallery and
several other unique quality outlets all in this
contained location, Ludlow Farm Shop is a
day trip worth travelling for, if you’re not lucky
enough to make regular local visits.
ludlowfarmshop.co.uk
Ludlow Farm Shop
Bromfield, Ludlow

Just two miles from Ludlow, farming is at the
very heart of this stylish retail destination
that is designed not just to sell food but
produce it too.
See it grown and made right here
Sitting at the heart of the Oakly Park Estate
much of the farmshop’s produce comes from Choccotastic
here and supplies the ingredients for their Hanley Swan, Worcestershire
vast range of luxury own-branded multi-award-
winning products, mainly made onsite. So Choccotastic’s brand new purpose built
proud are they of their bakery, dairy, butchery, premises on the Herefordshire/Worcestershire
production kitchen, jams and pickles and coffee border opened this summer 2025, to bring
roasting, that you can observe the talented all of owner Heather Cambridge’s chocolate
artisan makers through viewing windows right dreams into one lickalicious location. Now the
into their production rooms. retail shop and tearoom, group chocolate-
making workshops and manufacturing suite
Their Limousin cross beef also includes less operate under one roof.
usual cuts and the farm’s lamb is a mixture of
five Shropshire breeds. The Estate’s wild deer, Just imagine indulging your greatest chocolate
mostly Fallow and some Roe and Muntjac too, fantasy, whether an adult or a child, and getting
provide excellent venison. Free range high creative with the cacao. Using luxurious Belgian
welfare pork, poultry and game are sourced
locally, all making a natural supply to the Clive
Arms and the Ludlow Kitchen restaurants that
are both onsite.
Seasonal vegetables come from the walled
garden nearby and their state-of-the-art dairy
provides the milk for their cheeses and yogurts.
Over 100 beehives create the only honey
used and sold on site and, in turn, the bees
help pollinate many of the flowers, fruit and
vegetables across the farm.
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