Independent Cambridge: take a butcher's

Cambridge boasts a fantastic range of independent traders, but many residents - let alone visitors - are unaware of what's available right on our doorstep. The publishers of Independent Cambridge, a book which celebrates these businesses, highlight a selection of these 'indies' here. This week: Andrew Northrop Butchers.

In 1999 the well-known Cambridge Butcher Mr Fabish handed over the keys to his shop in Mill Road to Andrew Northrop, and so began another chapter in the life of a butchers’ shop that had existed on the same site since the early 1900s.

Andrew started in the trade immediately on leaving school at 16 – learning the business of being a butcher literally on-the-job. This experience taught him the importance of a good apprenticeship and he now has a rigorous training policy in place for all his staff.

The shop in Mill Road has flourished thanks to Andrew’s commitment to selling only the best quality meat and offering a friendly and knowledgeable service to his customers and has allowed him to expand and open a second shop in Burleigh Street.

Inside both shops you will discover a carefully chosen selection of mainly locally-sourced meat including succulent Dingley Dell Pork from Suffolk and Label Anglais chickens from Essex. Temple Farm turkeys are also available at Christmas when you can see the queue from the shop snaking down Mill Road as people wait to collect their festive orders.

At Northrop’s you can also pick up speciality items such as game, quails’ eggs, Gurkha curry sauces, goose fat and different types of dripping. There’s also a range of cured meats including Spanish chorizo, Boerewors (South African sausage) and Biltong – a variety of air-dried beef.


Andrew Northrop Butchers
114 Mill Road
Cambridge
CB1 2BQ

Tel: +44 (0)1223 354779
E: andrew.northrop@btinternet.com
W: www.andrewnorthrop.co.uk


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Find out more by visiting the Independent Cambridge website:www.independent-cambridge.co.uk/

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