Evenlode Wool Mill.
Spun yarn, blankets and socks from British fleece. Evenlode, 8 miles from the farm gate, supplying this shop since October 2022.
What they make.
Spun yarn, blankets and socks from British fleece. It is a wool mill first and a supplier to this shop second, which is the correct order and worth stating: nothing here depends on us, and none of these businesses would close if we stopped ordering.
They have been supplying the farm shop since October 2022, which makes them one of the longer-standing relationships in a chapter where the average is about four years.
What we sell of theirs.
On the shelf
- Cotswold blanket
- Undyed, two colourways from two breeds
- Boot socks
- The best-selling non-food line in the shop
- Aran yarn, 100g
- For people who knit, which is more of you than we expected
- Fleece, raw
- By arrangement, for spinners
The relationship
- Supplying since
- October 2022
- Distance
- 8 miles from the shop, straight line
- Payment terms
- 14 days from invoice
- Listing fee
- None, and there never has been
- Exclusivity
- None either wayThey sell to whoever they like, and so do we
- Mark held
- British wool, spun and woven · currentBacked by Diddly Squat
Prices are set by the producer, not by us. Where a line has a fixed retail price it is because they asked for one, which two of the nine do.
What went wrong. Our own fleece is largely useless to them. We keep sheep for meat and conservation grazing, the wool comes off coarse and full of vegetable matter, and a mill that spins a soft yarn cannot do much with it beyond carpet felt. We spent most of a year describing the blankets in a way that implied they came off our sheep. They do not. They come off British sheep, and now the label says which farms and which breeds, none of which are this one.
Sixteen miles, and what that actually means here.
This producer is 8 miles from the shop door. Under the planning condition that governs what the farm shop may sell, that is what makes them stockable at all — not the quality, not the story, and not whether they photograph well.
It is worth being blunt about the consequence: if they moved twenty miles away we could not sell their food, however good it was. The rule takes no view on merit.
- Distance
- 8 miles
- Since
- October 2022
- Lines stocked
- 4
At a glance.
On the public register
With the audit date and the next one due.
Paid in fourteen days
From invoice, not from delivery.
8 miles away
Inside the planning radius, comfortably.
One failure published
Above, with the party at fault named.
The other producers.
Chadlington Bakehouse
Sourdough, cottage loaves and a morning bun that sells out by ten.
Cotswold Curd
Raw-milk hard cheese in 12kg truckles, matured on board.
Windrush Smokery
Cold-smoked trout, dry-cured back bacon and smoked butter.
Sarsden Apiary
Cotswold honey, hive by hive, unblended.
Dean Market Garden
Salad, roots and brassicas on two and a half acres.
Enstone Meat Co
Dry-aged beef, sausage and bacon, cutting for the shop and the pub.
Supply the shop yourself.
If you are inside the radius and make something we do not already have, the route in is short.
