Honest Bread
Cambridgeshire · East of England · United Kingdom

Real bakeries in Cambridge

Cambridge sits in Cambridgeshire, East of England, United Kingdom. Honest Bread lists 7 bakeries in and around Cambridge that mix and bake from scratch, with no frozen or par-baked dough and no additives.

Between them, the Cambridge bakers here make sourdough, rye sourdough, spelt, wholemeal and rye bread. Every listing is either confirmed by the baker or compiled from public record, and we say which on each profile.

7 bakeries
8 bread types
Sourdough most common
✓ Publicly sourced

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.

SourdoughRye Sourdough
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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.

SourdoughRye SourdoughSpeltRye Bread
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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.

Sourdough
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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.

BaguetteBriocheSourdough
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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.

SourdoughWholemealBloomer
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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.

SourdoughRye SourdoughSpeltWholemeal
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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.

SourdoughSpeltWholemeal
Answer engine

Real bread in Cambridge, answered

Where can I buy real bread in Cambridge?
Honest Bread lists 7 scratch bakeries in Cambridge that bake on their own premises. The best known make sourdough. Open the bakery profiles above for addresses, opening details and what each one bakes.
Where can I get real sourdough in Cambridge?
7 of the Cambridge bakeries on Honest Bread are known for sourdough. Genuine sourdough is leavened by a live starter alone, with no commercial yeast, so look for the bakeries tagged sourdough above.
How do I know a Cambridge bakery really bakes from scratch?
A bakery only appears on Honest Bread if it bakes from scratch on its premises, uses no artificial additives, and is independent and accountable. Listings are baker-signed or publicly sourced. The badge on each card tells you which.