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Gloucestershire
- Accommodation, Food & Drink, Specialist Shops
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Cotswold Farm Fayre
& Coffee Shop
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Denfurlong Farm, Chedworth, nr Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL54 4NQ
Tel: 01285 720265
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March 2006 saw the opening of the Cotswold Farm Fayre & Coffee Shop
just seconds off the A429 Fosseway, six miles north of
Cirencester on the approach to Chedworth village.
Rosanne Dickenson, the third generation of the
Finch family who have lived and farmed in
Chedworth since the 1920s, set up the enterprise with
her sisters and father in a series of farm
buildings that include the old milking parlour. Their
aim was to provide the village with a much needed shop and to help support local
farming communities.
They source everything they can from the Cotswolds _ which helps the farmers and
helps the environment by reducing transport
levels. Andy and Russell run the on-site butchery, where the beef comes from the family farm
at the other end of the village. The lamb is from
a local farm, the pork comes from Moreton-in-Marsh, the poultry from Malmesbury.
Customers can order their chickens boned and stuffed,
and the sausages and burgers are naturally of the very best quality; the butchers offer
barbecue deals with burgers, sausages and kebabs including vegetarian varieties.
Pamela runs the farm shop, which is stocked with a wide variety of top-quality
produce. There are fresh and frozen fruit and
vegetables, cows' and goats' cheese from the
Cotswolds, ready-to-cook dishes, deli items such as
rice and pasts salads and cured and dried hams, butter and oils, chutneys, honey and jams
and apple juices. Bread is baked daily in their
own ovens. Rosanne uses milk from their farm to make an amazing range of the most delicious
ice creams which are sold in tubs _ customers can order their own favourite flavours for parties.
The village store stocks a selection of household goods and everyday necessities.
Cotswold Farm Fayre enjoys a rural setting with open fields and lovely views, and one of the
waymarked farm walks goes to Stony Furlong railway cutting, a designated Site of Special Scientific
Interest that's rich in wildlife. After a walk round the trail customers can relax with a cake or a snack
in the Coffee Shop, which is managed by Mandy with help from Julie, Brenda, Kerry, Lynne,
Helen, Amanda, Sophie and Hayley. Daily changing menus cater for all appetites, and among the
dishes (all made on the premises) are steak & ale pie, smoked salmon & watercress frittata,
roasts, mega pavlova and huge profiteroles with the delightful name of Camel's Knees. Cotswold
Farm Fayre and the Coffee Shop are open daily.
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