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) 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)

Our duck and chicken is provided by Elaine and Daryn at Madgett’s Farm. Overlooking the Wye in The Forest of Dean, the free range poultry has a flavour and quality which is delicious (you’ll see from the colour of the meat how different it is). (Food Miles = 34)

Steve at Walter Rose Butchers knows the quality of cattle and pigs he sells us as they all lived within five miles of his Devizes shop. Situated high on a Wiltshire hill Tim Johnson’s herd of Hereford-Angus heifers live a happy life on Stokes Marsh Farm. They feed on permanent pastures of wild weeds, dandelions and native grasses rich in omega-3s and vitamin E. A nutritious and healthy bovine diet, and highly significant as “you are what you eat, eats”! (Food Miles = 35)

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)

Willesley Farm is located 4 miles from The Priory Inn, (close to the Westonbirt Arboretum). Peter Gibson has a small herd of lovingly tended Aberdeen Angus cattle grazing happily among the trees. Organically raised and finished on grass, the high quality and fine marbled 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 Aberdeen Angus sirloin steaks and Gloucester Old Spot ham hock 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 bar-b-q. (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.

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 from Lucy’s Dairy in Kingswood (Food Miles = 12). Sherston Farm provides our free-range eggs. (Food Miles = 6) We buy hand-made 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…) Melissa Ravenhill at Woefuldane Organic Farm in Minchinhampton supplies many of our delicious hard cheeses. (Food Miles = 5) Ceri and Chad Cryer in Brinkworth are key players in our product providing great hard and soft cheese, honey and now ice-cream. (Food Miles = 11)

Cotswold Brewing Company is our exclusive lager supplier now on tap in our bar. Based in the small hamlet of Foscot, Oxfordshire, the brewery is housed in an old Cotswold stone farm building, part of a working farm estate. (Food Miles >30)

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)

Our house ale is Uley which is brewed with loving care by Chas and his team in the village of Uley just 8 miles from Tetbury. We always have 2 other local guest ales which are constantly changing.

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)

Mrs Massey tailor-makes our ketchup and brown sauce - no artificial flavours or additives, no concentrates and a guarantee of “no funny business”. (Food Miles = 17)