Honest bread in Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire has 14 real bakeries listed on Honest Bread, in 7 towns. Every one bakes from scratch on its own premises.
Look for honest bread in Cambridge, Ely, Elsworth, Gamlingay, Huntingdon and Milton.
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Bread by Neil
Sourdough microbakery in Ely run by baker Neil Adcock from a converted home kitchen, producing small batches of hand-made bread from natural, where-possible organic and locally sourced ingredients. Loaves are available to order online for weekly collection.
Bread on a Bike
Sourdough microbakery off Mill Road in Cambridge, baking naturally leavened loaves to order from flour, water and sea salt with no added yeast or improvers. Bread is slowly fermented and made in small batches for collection.
Cobs Bakery (Cambridge Organic Bakery)
Organic wholesale bakery in Cambridge using long, slow fermentation to make white sourdough, a malted four-grain, whole spelt and a molasses-and-caraway dark rye. It supplies shops, markets, restaurants and university colleges across the city and is now run.
Dovecote Bakery
Craft bakery with a shop in Gamlingay in South Cambridgeshire, making sourdough, speciality breads and cakes for delivery across Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire. Its sourdough is fermented over 48 hours and it also bakes organic ancient-grain loaves includi.
Eunice Artisan Bakery
Artisan bakery in Huntingdon making bread by hand using its own natural sourdough grown from scratch, with quality flour and no preservatives. It offers a range of handmade breads and cakes using traditional recipes.
Fitzbillies
Cambridge institution founded in 1920, baking its own bread, pastries, cakes and famous Chelsea buns by hand at an off-site bakery. Its bread range includes a white wheat sourdough baton and sourdough English muffins.
Grain Culture (Bake Shop)
Ely bakery and bake shop known for crusty sourdough, white batch loaves, milk buns and Danish-style rye, baked from scratch on its premises. Loaves and pastries draw regular queues at its St Mary's Street shop.
Hambleton Bakery
Award-winning artisan bakery with a shop and cafe in St Ives, where breads and pastries are handmade and baked daily using traditional techniques, free of additives and preservatives. Its range runs to more than twenty sourdough, spelt and rye varieties.
Maison Clement
French bakery and patisserie founded in Cambridge in 2017, with shops on Hills Road and in Newnham. It makes home-baked loaves alongside croissants, viennoiserie and French-style patisserie.
Norfolk Street Bakery
Long-established Cambridge bakery, restored and reopened in 2012, making handmade breads, cakes and Portuguese specialities. Its artisan loaves use organic flour and include sourdough, wholemeal and bloomers alongside rustic Mediterranean breads.
Pastim Artisan Bakery
Artisan microbakery in Milton, just outside Cambridge, selling real sourdough bread to the public and to independent businesses. It also makes cakes and pastries, with collection on bakery open days.
Stir
Cambridge bakery and cafe group whose breads, cakes and pastries are handmade and baked fresh daily at its Chesterton bakery. Its range centres on sourdoughs and other slow-fermented loaves made with organic UK-milled Shipton Mill flour.
The Cambridge Oven
Family-run artisan bakery on Hills Road opened in 2018, making breads, sourdoughs and pastries from scratch each morning. It is a Real Bread Campaign member and bakes its sourdough using natural starters with no added bakers' yeast.
Webbsour
Artisan bakery near Cambridge founded by a Cordon Bleu chef, making small-batch breads using slow fermentation. It mills-sources flour from Prior's windmill and regional Cambridgeshire mills, with online pre-ordering.