Good places.
Properly chosen.

Little Budworth

In Little Budworth, The Hollies Farm Shop brings together a farm shop, butchery and delicatessen for a generous Cheshire food stop. Its shelves feature market-fresh fruit and vegetables alongside produce from more than 70 local suppliers, inviting you to browse for fresh ingredients and regional treats. The on-site butchery makes sausages and burgers with fully traceable local pork, while the delicatessen prepares homemade pies and quiches and offers cooked meats and freshly baked bread. With more than 75 cheese varieties to explore, it suits both a planned food shop and an easy-going visit for something special to take home.

Knutsford

Set on Moseley Hall Farm near Knutsford, The Lambing Shed Farm Shop & Kitchen brings a genuine farm-to-fork feel to a relaxed food stop. Home-reared, grass-fed beef and lamb take centre stage at the on-site butcher’s counter, with the beef dry-aged there for added depth and character. The shop also draws on more than 45 local suppliers, alongside homemade ready-to-cook meals, while the deli bakes pies, pastries and sausage rolls daily and offers cheeses and charcuterie. Stay for the café’s home-reared and locally sourced dishes, or pick up something special for the journey home.

Sandbach

At Wheelock Hall Farm in Wheelock, near Sandbach, a working dairy farm provides the setting for a family-run farm shop and Tea Room. The shop brings together home-grown potatoes, fresh fruit and vegetables, local jams and preserves, homemade cakes, local cheeses, milk and freshly baked bread. In the Tea Room, look for farmhouse breakfasts, cooked lunches, freshly made sandwiches, home-baked cakes, scones and pastries. Its chips are made with the farm’s own potatoes, adding a clear link between the land and the plate. It makes a welcoming stop for farm-shop browsing and an easy meal in the Cheshire countryside.

Mottram St Andrew

Brook House Farm Shop brings a working mixed-livestock farm to the edge of Mottram St Andrew, with the Sidebottom family’s farming story carried through four generations. The on-site shop combines a butcher’s counter, deli and café, inviting you to combine farm-shop browsing with a relaxed bite. Grass-fed cattle include Angus, Hereford and Galloway breeds, while the butcher offers beef, lamb, chicken and pork, including house-made sausages and burgers. In the deli, the farm’s own kitchen produces sausage rolls, quiches and cooked meats alongside locally produced cheeses. The seasonal café menu, created by in-house chefs, includes a home-reared steak sandwich and keeps the farm’s produce at its centre.

Byley

At Shanty Farm in Byley, Lowe’s Farm Shop brings the working farm and the wider Cheshire larder together in one welcoming stop. The Lowe family has grown vegetables for six generations, and the shop’s own fruit and vegetables are picked on the farm alongside locally sourced dairy, bread and cupboard staples. Fresh meat prepared on site by H Davidson Butchers, including ready-to-cook combinations, adds a tempting butcher’s counter, while Ginger & Pickles offers homemade food, cakes, coffee, breakfasts, lunches and light bites. It is an inviting destination for farm-grown produce, everyday provisions and a relaxed food break in the Cheshire countryside.

Nantwich

Set on Newcastle Road in Nantwich, Cheerbrook Quality Farm Foods brings a farm shop, butchery, bakery, deli and café together in one food-focused destination. The deli prepares oven-ready meals, savouries, cheeses and cooked meats daily, using meat from the butchery, baker-made pastry and fresh ingredients. Its café draws on produce from across the shop, butchery, deli and bakery for brunch and lunch. There is also a strong local-producer thread, with the business working with local farmers and producers and making sausage rolls, pasties and homemade traybakes with local ingredients. Browse the counters, stay for lunch and take a little of Cheshire’s food-making tradition home.

Croft, Warrington

Set on a working family farm across more than 500 acres of Cheshire and Lancashire countryside, Kenyon Hall Farm Shop makes a relaxed stop in Croft, near Warrington. Its shelves showcase seasonal fruit and vegetables grown on the farm alongside homemade jams, chutneys and cakes, bread baked in the farm kitchen, honey from its hives and carefully sourced regional produce. The on-site café serves freshly prepared local food, from farmhouse breakfasts and sandwiches to pies, soups and home-baked cakes, with vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free choices. A plant centre, pick-your-own fields and seasonal farm activities give the destination plenty to explore beyond the shop and café.

Whatcroft, near Northwich

At Shipbrook Hill Farm in Whatcroft, near Northwich, Riverside Organic brings together a family-run organic farm, farm shop and café. The shop offers organic and homegrown beef and lamb, seasonal meat boxes, organic fruit and vegetables, groceries, bread and cakes, with delivery and collection available. For a relaxed stop, the café/kitchen serves takeaway baps, paninis, coffees and cakes, including homemade cakes and bacon baps. There is seating indoors, outdoors and under a marquee, with a children’s play area and animals to feed. It is an appealing Cheshire countryside visit for farm produce, a simple café break and a taste of the working farm.

Cholmondeley, near Malpas

Within the Cholmondeley Castle estate near Malpas, Cholmondeley Farm Shop & Café offers an inviting pause in the Cheshire countryside. Locally sourced produce and freshly made sandwiches sit alongside everyday favourites, making this a place to discover something for the table as well as a bite for the journey. The café adds freshly prepared food and drinks to the visit, bringing shopping and a relaxed food stop together at its Bickerton Road premises. Whether you are gathering provisions or taking time for a café break, the estate setting gives this small countryside destination a character of its own.

Astbury, Congleton

Glebe Farm makes a welcoming food-led stop in Astbury, south Cheshire, where a farm shop sits alongside a butcher’s, fishmonger and coffee shop among the barns and outbuildings. It is a straightforward place to combine picking up something for the table with a family day out, thanks to free entry and parking, farm animals, a play area and tractor rides. The farm shop also sells bags of chopped carrots for animal feeding, adding a practical touch to the visit. With independent businesses gathered on one visitor site, Glebe Farm offers an inviting rural destination near Congleton for browsing, refreshments and time outdoors.

Wimboldsley, near Middlewich

In rural Wimboldsley, just south of Middlewich, Hopley House brings together a farm shop, café and on-site shopping village. The shelves cover daily-delivered bread from Chatwins and Mandervilles, home-cooked pies, sausage rolls and quiche, alongside cakes, cheesecakes, desserts and locally sourced produce, including potatoes grown on the family farm. A Woods of Knutsford meat counter adds fresh cuts and butcher-prepared ready meals, while Buttertons ice cream, wines, beers and spirits round out the food-led offer. Set aside time for breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea or homemade cakes in the café, and make a visit of the wider rural shopping destination.

Aston, Nantwich

Set at The Rowans on Whitchurch Road in Aston, Nantwich, Longmans Farm Shop & Café brings together a Cheshire farm shop and café. The shop focuses on seasonal fruit and vegetables, free-range eggs, meats from Cheshire farmers, local cheeses, bread and pastries, alongside pantry favourites such as jams, chutneys and honey. In the café, shop produce feeds an all-day menu ranging from breakfasts and Eggs Benedict to smoked salmon, steak dishes, sandwiches, homemade cakes and afternoon teas. Takeaway is available, while picnic tables and covered teepee seating add to the countryside setting. It is a lovely stop for local produce, a relaxed meal or special-order turkeys and hampers.

Mobberley

At Waugh Brow Farm Shop in Mobberley, a working Cheshire farm and traditional butchery come together in a food-led stop near Knutsford. The shop offers home-grown beef, lamb, pork and chicken alongside bacon, sausages, black pudding and other butchered meats. A deli counter brings together local cheeses, cooked meats, hot pies, bread, eggs, dairy, fruit and vegetables, homemade goodies and local beers. It is a rewarding place to discover farm and local produce, with orders available by email or telephone for collection. Open Wednesday to Sunday, it makes a distinctive rural visit for shoppers looking to take Cheshire produce home.

Utkinton, near Tarporley

Set on a working farm in Utkinton near Tarporley, Rose Farm Shop brings together an on-farm butchery, deli and food hall in the Cheshire countryside. Its cattle are reared on the farm, with beef sold directly through the shop, while the counter also features pork, lamb from nearby Ridge Hill Farm and other locally sourced produce. Browse farmhouse, British and European cheeses, cooked meats prepared on the premises, handmade scotch eggs, charcuterie, bread, cakes, chutneys and cooking sauces. A farm walk and tractor rides add to the rural day out, with animals to see and feed. Click-and-collect and local delivery are available alongside national delivery.

Holt, Wales — just over the border

Just over the Welsh border in Holt, Bellis Brothers Farm Shop and Garden Centre brings together a working-farm setting, garden centre and a generous food shop. Homegrown seasonal fruit and vegetables sit alongside bread, milk, eggs, preserves, chutneys, cakes and craft beers, with local-producer goods adding to the everyday range. The onsite butchery and deli offers meats, cheeses, pies, pastries, sliced meats, Scotch eggs, quiche and prepared salads, with larger orders available to collect. For a fuller stop, Strawberry Fields Restaurant serves a home-cooked menu overlooking the Welsh countryside, while seasonal Pick Your Own adds another reason to return.