Shopping and Local Food

In the Forest of Bowland there is a growing number of local producers committed to producing fine food of the highest quality so a visit to the Forest of Bowland can also be a feast for your taste buds.

Forest of Bowland Local Food Producers

Bowland Forest Foods a Bowland Farmers Cooperative web site

Robinsons Butchers Chipping

Bowland Brewery at Bashall Barn

The Ribble Valley Food Trail (PDF 3.0mb)

Forest of Bowland Local Food Directory (PDF 6.8mb)

Lancashire cheese trails

Creamy Lancashire Cheese trail leaflet (PDF 865kb)
Crumbly Lancashire Cheese trail leaflet (PDF 752kb)
Tasty Lancashire Cheese trail leaflet (PDF 745kb)

Bashall Barn Farm Shop web site

Bashall Barn are committed to selling locally produced goods. Products on sale in the farm shop include speciality bacon and sausages, cheese, pickles, preserves and sauces, along with the finest local ale brewed on site at the Bowland Brewery

Little Town Dairy web site

Specialises in premium products made from the milk of their RSPCA accredited herd. The farm shop also sells freshly baked bread, cakes and pies, a wide range of jams, preserves and local honey, as well as chutneys, pickles and sauces. Logs, kindling and locally produced charcoal are also available.

Leagram Organic Dairy web site

This little dairy takes us back to the first place Lancashire cheese was made commercially. Products range from native Lancashire to a mild cheddar, a buttery Double Gloucester, a smooth Red Leicester and finally a creamy, unique sheep’s cheese, using local sheep’s milk from a nearby farm.

Eating Places

Priory Restaurant Scorton web site

The Derby, Thornley

New Drop, Ribchester web site

Gibbon Bridge, Chipping web site

Visitor Centers

Old Holly Farm visitor centre web site

Bowland Wildboar Park web site

Plant Nurseries and Gardens

Waddow Lodge Open Garden web site

Cobble Hey Farm and Gardens web site

Holden Clough Plant Nursery web site

Oak Nurseries, Pudding Pie Nook La, Goosnargh

Arts and Crafts

Chipping Shop and Gallery (PDF brochure 150kb)

www.artroomgallery.co.uk 4 Oak Grove, Bridge Street, Garstang, Lancs, PR3 1YB. tel 01996600400

General Shopping

Chipping - 5 miles

Chipping village has a post office, a village shop, plus craft shop antiques shop and a cafe. For lunchtime and evening dining there is also a choice of three public houses.

Garstang

Our local town is Garstang is a historic market town. It has a population of about five thousand. In 2000 the people of Garstang voted virtually unanimously for Garstang to become the world's first Fairtrade Town.

Garstang is also the cheese making centre of Lancashire

You may also like to visit the village of Scorton and the small town of Longridge.

If you need larger stores or are just missing the bright lights then Lancaster and Preston are within easy driving distance.