Our Suppliers

One of our house-rules here at The Priory Inn is our commitment to buying seasonal produce from local farms and suppliers. We believe their quality is unsurpassed, it is better for the environment and an ideal opportunity for us to support our local economy. Just for your interest, we have approximated the number of food miles that each item will travel before arriving on your plates here at The Priory Inn:

Our chefs make bread and pizza dough with 100% organic flour from the renowned Shipton Mill, located in Long Newnton. The grain ground at the mill provides organic and whole-wheat flours that are wholesome in texture and flavour. (Food Miles = 2 depending on the flour type as some grain travels from Canada!). Their 5-seed blend features in our muesli.

We are lucky enough to also be less than 5 minutes away from the organic Duchy Home Farm which is renowned for its delicious vegetables - we obtain as much produce from there as the seasons allow. (Food Miles = 0.3) Aunt Addie's Social Farming Project supplies us with quality salads, vegetables and hearty-warming stories from their inspirational Long Newnton site. (Food Miles = 2) Over Farm in Gloucester also provides us with a choice of fruit and vegetables as they have over 80 varieties. They offer trailer rides, and seasonal events. Look out for them every week at Cirencester and Stroud Farmer’s Markets. (Food Miles = 33). The team at Coleshill Organics developed a farm from a passion to provide local people with the highest quality fresh produce. We buy high quality organic, seasonal fruit and vegetables from them throughout the year (Food Miles = 27)

Steve at Walter Rose Butchers knows the quality of meat he sells us as the farms he sources from are all within five miles of his Devizes shop. Brian Pickford’s pedigree Berkshire pigs provide us with delicious sausages and bacon for our breakfast menu. Reared and fed organically in Long Newnton, this breed is renowned for its texture and distinctive flavour. (Food Miles = 4 or 26 including slaughter)

West Country Game & Deer Park supply us with venison from their herd of Red Deer which are managed in their natural environment ensuring the highest quality cuts of venison available - with 100% traceability. They hang and butcher the meat onsite which results in a total of 12 Food Miles.

Christopher Maughan is a committed pig producer and controls the entire process from the birth to plate of his free-range Hampshire / Duroc cross pigs. Kelmscott Country Pork is now supplying us with ham hock, belly pork and occasional sausages and bacon.

Mike Tucker is rearing Wagyu (pronou Wa-goo) cattle in Long Newnton (same beef as Japanese Kobe) and we buy this special, nutritious meat for our burgers. (Food Miles = 2)

Willesley Farm Peter Gibson has a small herd of lovingly tended Aberdeen Angus cattle organically raised and finished on grass, the high quality beef is hung for 21 days before it arrives at our door. (Food Miles = 4)

The 500 acre Adey’s Farm is run by Tim and Caroline Wilson. The organic meats are of a truly superior quality and we buy many products for our menus. If you ever happen to be in Stroud on a Saturday, don’t miss one of their renowned burgers or sausages from the market. (Food Miles = 13)

We buy rose veal from Pancake Farm in Chedworth – the most welfare-friendly veal, raised in small groups in airy straw yards and fed on milk and home-cut hay resulting in slow-grown and unstressed animals which are delicious to eat! (Food Miles = 19)

Tucks Butchers in Sherston make great local charcuterie with venison from the Beaufort Estate and local wild boar and Trealy Farm in Monmouthshire provide us with salami, chorizo for our pizzas and bresaola made from the highest quality free range pork and traditional breeds. Native Breeds based on the Lydney Park Estate in Gloucestershire are unique curers and charcutiers using a limited number of local farms and estates to source their native and rare breed animals.

The Bibury Trout we serve is farmed at Bibury Trout Farm which was founded in 1902 and is a most attractive and family-friendly farm. Primarily a working farm breeding and rearing high quality trout with a ‘catch your own’ fishery. (Food Miles = 18)

We buy all our milk and cream and many hard cheeses from Melissa Ravenhill at Woefuldane Organic in Minchinhampton (Food Miles = 6). Sherston Farm provides our free-range eggs. (Food Miles = 6) We buy handmade goat’s cheese from Cerney (Food Miles = 10). Godsells Cheese is handmade using milk from their own herd of cows. Try the “Holy Smoked” on our cheese board which is the only single Gloucester cheese smoked over real oak chippings. (Food Miles = 13) We also have Simon Weaver’s Cotswold Blue Brie from The Cotswold Organic Dairy, Stow-on-the-Wold (Food Miles = 30). White Lake cheeses is situated on Bagborough Farm in sight of Glastonbury Tor. They have a herd of around 600 goats. (Food Miles = 50, outside the 30 Mile Zone, but one of our favourites, so it stays…) Ceri and Chad Cryer in Brinkworth are key players in our product providing great hard and soft cheese and handmade ice-cream. (Food Miles = 11)

Cotswold Brewing Company is our exclusive local lager supplier now on tap in our bar. This family changed their lives to follow their hearts, and every beer they produce embodies that passion and commitment – brewed near Bourton on the Water (Lager Miles = 27)

Our house ale is from the wonderful Uley Brewery whose small, but perfectly formed team, brew consistently brilliant ale from the natural spring water that runs through their yard. (Ale Miles = 8) We always have 2 guest ales on tap from many local breweries within 30 miles.

Esther Brooks from Cotswold Country Liqueurs make delicious Gloucestershire liqueurs from a variety of natural seasonal fruits and flowers picked from local pastures and brambles - Quince liqueur, Damson Brandy, Citrus Spiced Whiskey. (Food Miles = 20)

Bow in the Cloud vineyard is located one mile east of Malmesbury on a small pocket of Cotswold cornbrache soil in an area which is generally characterised by clay. The Willingdales produce the spectacular medal winning “Cloud-Nine” bubbly which you can buy by the bottle. (Food Miles = 6)

Days Cottage is a family-run business that supplies the apple juice that we sell at the bar – made with apples from traditional, mature unsprayed orchards in Gloucestershire giving flavours unobtainable from modern commercial fruit.
(Food Miles = 16)

Our wine pichets are individual pieces of hand-thrown pottery designed and lovingly made by Clive King just six miles away at The Malmesbury Pottery.

R-Oil is a new type of cooking oil farmed sustainably by Robert and Hamish Campbell in Stow-on-the-Wold. They have perfected the production of this new type of oil - cold-pressed rape seed oil. The result is entirely natural and unadulterated (Food Miles = 30)

We buy jams and marmalades from Ruth Cooke from Brinkworth, Wiltshire. Always experimenting with different and seasonal fruit, she excels in her field. (Food Miles = 11)

Our delicious honey comes from Oak Tree Cottage Apiary near Newham on Severn. (Food Miles = 30)

The very clever people at Tracklements in Sherston have been supplying us with mustards for a good while now and special tomato ketchup and brown sauce to dip your fries in and enjoy with the best breakfast sausages. (Food Miles = approx 6 depending on product)