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Honest bread in East Sussex

East Sussex has 11 real bakeries listed on Honest Bread, in 6 towns. Every one bakes from scratch on its own premises.

Look for honest bread in Brighton, Hove, Lewes, Eastbourne, Hastings and Piltdown.

11 bakeries
6 towns
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All bakeries in East Sussex

Lewes · East Sussex ✓ Publicly sourced

Bake Out

An artisan bakery and cafe with a shop by the bridge in Lewes that makes its bread, pastry and cakes from scratch. The founders won Britain's Best Loaf in 2018 and a Sussex seeded sourdough category award.

SourdoughRye Sourdough
Hove · East Sussex ✓ Publicly sourced

Bayon Bakery

An independent neighbourhood bakery in Hove baking crusty sourdough loaves, bread and pastries on site each morning. Everything is handmade and the shop is open seven days a week.

SourdoughBloomer
Piltdown · East Sussex ✓ Publicly sourced

Fermento Mill and Bakery

A small independent mill and bakery in the Uckfield area baking slowly fermented sourdough, focaccia and pizza in a wood fired oven. It mills its own flour from organic and biodynamic English grains.

SourdoughRye BreadFocacciaSpelt
Lewes · East Sussex ✓ Publicly sourced

Flint Owl Bakery

An organic bakery serving Lewes, baking naturally leavened breads from stoneground organic flour, sea salt and spring water with no additives. Loaves are made through a slow fermentation that can take over 48 hours.

SourdoughRye BreadBloomerWholemeal
Hastings · East Sussex ✓ Publicly sourced

Judges Bakery

A long established bakery in Hastings Old Town baking organic bread certified by the Soil Association, using organic flour, sea salt and filtered water. It makes sourdough, rye and other loaves on site alongside a grocery offer.

SourdoughRye BreadCiabatta
Brighton · East Sussex ✓ Publicly sourced

Open Bakery

A Brighton bakery whose bakers start through the night to make handmade artisan bread on site, with loaves going straight from the oven to the shop shelves. Its range includes wheat, rye and spelt sourdoughs alongside wholegrain loaves and baguettes.

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Brighton · East Sussex ✓ Publicly sourced

Real Patisserie

An independent group of patisserie and bakery shops in Brighton and Hove baking French style breads, viennoiserie and slow ferment sourdough on its own premises. Each shop has an open kitchen so customers can watch the baking.

SourdoughRye SourdoughBloomerBaguette
Hove · East Sussex ✓ Publicly sourced

Stoneham Bakehouse

A community supported bakery and social enterprise in the Poets Corner area of Hove, baking sourdough and other breads on site with a volunteer team. Bread and flour are sold from the bakehouse Thursday to Saturday.

SourdoughRye BreadWholemeal
Hove · East Sussex ✓ Publicly sourced

Sugardough

A traditional bakery in Hove hand making bread, pastries and cakes from scratch each day, baking its sourdough in small batches from a long established starter. Its Hove bakery has an open view kitchen and supplies a second shop in central Brighton.

SourdoughRye BreadFocaccia
Brighton · East Sussex ✓ Publicly sourced

The Flour Pot Bakery

A Brighton based artisan bakery making sourdough and other breads from flour, water and salt with a team of bakers shaping loaves by hand each day. It runs several sites across Brighton, Hove and Worthing supplied from its own production bakery.

SourdoughCiabattaFocacciaWholemeal
Eastbourne · East Sussex ✓ Publicly sourced

To The Rise Bakery

A family run bakery in Eastbourne making only sourdough bread, plus buns, pizza and pastries, using organic and local ingredients. Its loaves are fermented over around 48 hours with a long cold proof.

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Bakeries in East Sussex, answered

How many real bakeries are there in East Sussex?
Honest Bread lists 11 bakeries in East Sussex that bake from scratch on their own premises, across 6 towns. Each listing is baker-signed or publicly sourced.
What makes these East Sussex bakeries different?
Every bakery here bakes from scratch with no artificial additives, and is independent and accountable. That is the whole Honest Bread standard, applied the same way across the UK and Ireland.