Ludlow Food Centre

This is a controversial post! The Earl of Plymouth’s Ludlow Food Centre opened a year ago at an estimated cost of 2.5 million pounds. It's two miles North West of Ludlow, just off the busy A49, in the village of Bromfield. Many traders in Ludlow feared a loss of trade when this venture was built. People travelling on the A49 can stop and park for free, and buy freshly baked bread and cakes, pies, quiches, meat and game, jams and pickles, fruit and vegetables and more besides without even getting as far as Ludlow.

The shop's stated aim is to provide you with fresh, local, seasonal and handmade food with exceptional taste and flavour. Over 80% of their produce comes from Shropshire and the surrounding three counties of Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Powys.

There are eight food workshops surrounding the shop floor, where you can see different foods being made, whilst you are shopping. The managing director, Sandy Boyd, was previously involved with the highly successful Chatsworth Farm Shop in Derbyshire. Everything says "quality" in this shop. I admire their aims, but hope the excellent traders of Ludlow don't suffer. Hopefully it will bring more shoppers to the area, so that everyone wins? What do you think?

I'd like to show you some pictures inside the shop, but my request to take photographs inside was very quickly turned down :-(.

When I got home, my wife asked me what I'd bought, and I said "A bottle of this, and a bottle of that." and she said "Whatever next!". Happily I can show you a picture of the bottles:















Ludlow Food Centre
Bromfield
Ludlow
Shropshire
SY8 2JR

Tel: 01584 856000

Web: http://www.ludlowfoodcentre.co.uk

Beers courtesy of the Teme Valley Brewery.

Web: http://temevalleybrewery.co.uk