The updated guide.
This list currently only covers pigs (I may expand it later).
It is hoped that this will be useful for people seeking pig abattoirs near them.
I have collated data for over 40 abattoirs from views on 5 forums, so it is by its nature subjective.
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List is in COUNTY, TOWN, NAME order
Aberdeenshire Inverurie Scotch Premier Meat Ltd. No. views 1
Comments- They've just scaled backed their pig slaughtering due to a huge decline in the number of pigs being produced up here. They only do pigs for a couple of hours on a Friday morning now.They're prone to mistakes: like forgetting to deliver the carcasses to the butcher, like "forgetting" the pluck or the trotters, like forgetting to split the carcass and remove the head, like miscalculating the bill, and like delivering the wrong carcasses to the wrong customers— despite very clear slapmarks plus vast differences in carcass size and quality. Scotch Premier don't do butchering. And good livestock handling is too dependent on the individual doing lairage—there's an excellent older chap who can sweet-talk the most recalcitrant pig or steer but there is another who, well, let's just say I disagree with his methods.
So, not exactly a recommendation!
Tel No: 01467 620631
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www.goanm.co.uk/spm/_sp/Contacts/contact.html Bedfordshire Bedford Evans & Son No. views 1
Comments- 1/10 -not recommend
Tel No: 01234 768227
Website : web.mac.com/bkbphotographic/Evans_&_Son/Welcome.html
Bristol Bristol Bakers of Nailsea No. views 1
Comments+ They are absouletly brilliant.. offer butchery if needed and having visited them myself I would never take any animal anywhere else, they are kind, considerate and as strange as this may seem it's a lovely place.
Tel No: 01275 852017
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http://www.bakersofnailsea.co.uk/ Cambridgeshire Kimbolton H J Hellet No. views 1
Comments+ would recommend
Tel No: 01480 860242
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Cambridgeshire Wisbech N V Gagen No. views 1
Comments+ book well in advance
Tel No: 01945 582418
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Ceredigion Tregaron Cig Oen Caron No. views 3
Comments+ Always helpful, very small, and they do cut. 10/10 (apart from the Ministry Vet who insists on Trichinella tests on nearly every pig I take), but they are near capacity so if you want your meat cut, you have to book well in advance.
+ stress free unloading and treatment of my pigs, small,local, pleasant to deal with
Tel No: 01974 298964
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Cornwall Penryn R J Trevarthen No. views 1
Comments+ 9/10 (I'd give 10 but I think their sausage making is a bit expensive!) Its a family run concern that has expanded in the last couple of years given the popularity of private kills Pigs taken on Monday and Wednesdays
Everyone was very helpful - no hullaballoo, and we weren't hurried at any point.
They have a full butchery service - the butcher operates on site and you can ask for any variation of cuts you want - the butcher Peter was very helpful for us as a couple of Newbies. They will also cure meat
Tel No: 01326 377081
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http://www.foodfromcornwall.co.uk/producers/r-j-trevarthen/194 Cumbria Grange Over Sands H C Airey No. views 1
Comments+ would recommend
Tel No: 015395 58230
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Derbyshire Glossop J W Mettrick No. views 1
Comments+ really nice and helpful
Tel No: 01457 852545
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http://www.mettricksbutchers.co.uk/Mettrick's-Abattoir/c8/pages.html Devon Holsworthy J & J Farmers No. views 1
Comments+ Always been really good so 9/10 (they lose one for the long bumpy lane to get there!). They have a cutting room too.
Tel No: 01409 271248
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Devon Ilfracombe Combe Martin Meats No. views 2
Comments+ Excellent service, small family run and very little waiting around for the animals. Pigs (including breeding sows and cull boars), sheep, goats, cattle and OTM cattle. Also does organic.
All in all a good experience and left me reasonably happy. The lady in the office was very patient with me and coped well with my ignorance!9/10
Tel No: 01271 882931
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Dorset Sherbourne C & S Meats No. views 5
Comments+ Used them for several years for pigs, cows and sheep. They have a butchery attached and I cannot recommend them too highly. Small, friendly and very helpful. Slow & relaxed, but kindly & helpful
+ they take in on sunday afternoon which is some times of use to folk that work
Tel No: 01963 210764
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Dumfries & Galloway Lockerbie Lockerbie Abattoir No. views 1
CommentsService was good; short waiting times. Attached to butchers shop round the corner, so you can get the butchering done as well.
Tel No: 01576 202746
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East Sussex Heathfield Tottingworth Farms No. views 4
Comments+ We have used them for many years for slaughtering and since they put in the on site butchery, I use them for cutting; both lambs and pigs. I give them a big fat 9 out of 10 !
Good service, happy to recommend
Tel No: 01435 862425
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www.tottingworth.co.uk/ East Yorkshire Bubwith J A Mounfield No. views 1
Comments+have always done me well and would be my preferred option of the four different ones I have used in the past. Pigs, sheep, goats & cattle, killed and cut on site, no packing/processing, good lairage and a long established family business.
very good small slaughter house. I am happy my stock get the best possible care whilst with them
Tel No: 01757 288339
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East Yorkshire Driffield James White Butchers No. views 1
Comments+10/10 - Small family run abattoir/butcher that only slaughter on Mondays. I can't speak highly enough of them.
Tel No: 01377 270 243
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www.jameswhitebutchers.co.uk/ Gloucestershire Cinderford Ensors Gloucester No. views 3
Comments+Drive in, open tail gate, unload, close, drive out. No reversing, one pig or a lorry load, very reasonable prices, helpful to an idiot, packed to your requirements, great sausage, bacon and gammon, too.
Tel No: 01594 823148
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www.ensors-ltd.co.uk/ Hampshire Basingstoke Laverstoke Abattoir No. views 2
Comments+ 10/10 for animal welfare, 3/10 for administration (but that's a lot better than the other way round). Their cutting is not cheap (up to £0.95 per kg) but it's good and everything comes vac packed, weighed, labelled, bar coded etc. They also do organic, I strongly recommend the place.
+ the stock are well treated, the service is of the best I have had in the past.
Tel No: 01256 772828
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www.laverstokepark.co.uk/home Herefordshire Leintwardine A H Griffiths No. views 3
Comments+ A very small abattoir with a smashing butcher's shop. sausages they do for us are marvelous ,but always need to ask for offal
Tel No: 01547 540231
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Herefordshire Weobley R E Williams No. views 1
Comments- Closed !
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Highland Granton on Spey R Miller Ltd. No. views 2
Comments+ I was impressed by them. Very friendly and helpful and very quiet and calm (tho I guess having to take the hoggets there for 7am helped with the quiet bit!). They also hung and butchered them. They specialise in private kills. Great outfit
Tel No: 01479 872520
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Kent Canterbury JR Farmmeats No. views 1
Comments+ Good abbatoir
Tel No: 01304 842928
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Kent Southborough Forge Farms No. views 2
Comments+ Good
- Not very friendly staff
Tel No: 01892 538768
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Kent Tonbridge Ken Ballard No. views 1
Comments+ Small Abattoir, entrance between shop and next door, so need to be able to reverse trailer
Tel No: 01622 831285
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Lincolnshire Boston A Wright No. views 1
Comments+ Very good. They helped me fill in the paperwork and allowed me to see anything I wanted. The staff were kind to the pigs and I didn't see a stick or anything other than a pig board for guidance. The guy there helped me to unload the pigs and then I stayed with them inside in the pen. I wasn't made to feel in the way.
Tel No: 01205 368032
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Mid Glamorgan Maesteg Maddock & Kembury No. views 1
Comments+ Excellent place we send all our private kill pigs there and lambs. Family run, very helpful and always accomdating, top quality service. Make excellent sausages to.
Tel No: 01656 739073
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Monmouthshire Raglan N S James No. views 1
Comments+ Would Recommend
Tel No: 01291 690675
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www.nsjames.co.uk Norfolk Kings lynn J E Howard No. views 1
Comments+ good but book well in advance
Tel No: 01553 636234
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North Lanarkshire Wishaw Wishaw Abattoir No. views 1
Comments+ Happy to recommend
Tel No: 01698 372667
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North Yorkshire Kilburn C R Horner No. views 1
Comments+ Family run, private kills but check well in advance as they do get busy specially Easter & Xmas (i book Xmas pigs in in August!!) They only kill for me and my butcher collects but they will cut if asked.(they do my firnd's lambs beautifully) Steep hill on way to village which can be tricky in winter so drops them to 9/10
Tel No: 01347 86836
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North Yorkshire Scarborough B W & D J Glaves No. views 1
Comments+ very helpful, treat animals well when unloading. Would highly recommend. They slaughter and butcher on the premises.
Tel No: 01723 859850
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http://www.glavesbutchers.co.uk/ Oxfordshire Witney Mutchmeats No. views 2
Comments+ Would recommend
Tel No: 01993 772972
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http://www.mutchmeats.co.uk/ Shropshire Bishops Castle Daysdrove No. views 5
Comments+ would recommend
+ The whole experience was friendly, unhurried and relaxed. The pigs were well treated and there was no squealing. They were put into large pens with plenty of straw.
- did not get pig tongue back, manager was flipant, communication between office & shop floor could be better
Tel No: 01588 630726
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http://www.daysdrove.co.uk/ Somerset Chard C Snell No. views 3
Comments+ Its a third generation small family business with oldfashioned values with a excellent customer relation understanding. Nothing is a problem and when starting out the owner is only to pleased to sit down with you and go through what they can do for you ie prices, cuts ,etc if required you could even take your own animal to the end you could stand and watch what happens in the stunning pen!
Tel No: 01460 220420
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South Yorkshire Doncaster E V Slack & Sons No. views 1
Comments+We used EV Slack & Sons, Wadworth. They were great to us as first timers and we were very pleased with the way our pigs were treated and how the staff treated us too. They take 'ones and twos' later in the week than the big consignments. It's family run with a Butchers Shop too and they cut the pigs for us. They did ask us what we wanted but we put ourselves in their hands for the first time, we had visited a couple of times and trusted them.
Tel No: 01302 853 433
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Suffolk Long Melford H Ruse No. views 2
Comments+ V.Good to a novice, both in terms of paperwork and help with how to have the pigs cut. Access is tight, you wouldn't want too big a vehicle.
Tel No: 01787 378 227
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Warwickshire Coventry C H Rowley No. views 2
Comments+ Small family run place with village butchers shop on site as well. Was very impressed with the set up - had been recommended to them by two people. Kill and cut to our spec for £40 and sausages at £1 / lb extra. Just got home with 110lb of meat and 45lb of sausages! Seem very busy. Kill on Monday
Tel No: 01676 540419
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http://www.chrowley.co.uk/ West Sussex Henfield Southern Traditional Meats No. views 2
Comments+ Very good, friendly allowed viewing of the slaughter, extremely professional and good communication, I will be sending all my pigs through them in the future! 9/10 - because they are a little expensive for cutting
+ they were very kind, and the patience shown to my boys by the handlers was fantastic. Very happy to recommend them.
Tel No: 01273 495171
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West Yorkshire Leeds John Penny & Sons No. views 1
Comments+ Very helpful for newbies
Tel No: 0113 2504162
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Wrexham Rhosllanerchrugog D & J Thomas No. views 2
Comments+ I have always been very happy with their respectful handling of my animals, there is very little waiting involved (I think they have only once been penned for about half an hour before slaughter) and there is no problem about watching the slaughter procedure if you wish to do so. The butchery side is excellent - they ask if they don't understand anything you have asked for, the meat is beautifully boxed and wrapped and their bacon/gammon is delish. The price has always been very reasonable too, and the service is always pleasant and courteous. I couldn't recommend them too highly.
- My own experience here wasn't so good: One of the pigs had a huge haematoma on it's hind quarter when returned. That can't happen post mortem. We also didn't get our own offal or heads back. Maybe a one off but we haven't been back to risk it again.
Tel No: 01978 840376
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http://www.dandjthomas.co.uk