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The Denham Estate
Denham, Barrow
Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk, IP29 5EQ
Tel: 01284 810231-2
Fax: 01284 810094
e-mail:
venison@denhamestate.co.uk
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The Denham Estate is an accredited butcher to the Rare Breed Survival Trust. As a result of this, in addition to our own range of venison, we also carry a range of traditional British livestock breeds of beef, pork and lamb with the old fashioned qualities of full flavour and succulence associated with a bygone age.
These breeds are all non-intensive, raised in a natural, free-range farming environment, maturing at their own stress free pace allowing for a better, truer flavour. All meat is totally traceable and reared in accordance with the highest welfare ethics of the Rare Breed Survival Trust. Every breed is individually identified by name and many of these names have been representative of famous breeds going back for centuries and are part of our national heritage. All rare breeds meat supplied by the Denham Estate will carry, on request, pedigree certificates furnished by the Rare Breeds Survival Trust to guarantee breed purity.
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Obviously, because of their rarity there will not be the same level of continuity of individual breeds as with the conventional modern breeds, but the range should compensate for this. On account of the shorter breeding cycle for
pigs we are usually able to offer British Lops, Gloucester Old Spots, Middle Whites and Saddlebacks. With rare breed
lambs, Norfolk Horns, Southdowns and on occasions Teeswaters, Dorset Downs aswell as the smaller primitive breeds. With
beef, Longhorns, British Whites, Red Polls and Dexters.
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One of the beef breeds the Denham Estate hope to market in small quantities is the White Park, the oldest British breed of cattle, whose loin was famously knighted "Sir Loin" by James I in recognition of its superb flavour and quality.
Michael and Cecilia Gliksten are very excited about this venture as it presents the opportunity to market truly flavoursome meats representing a significant and historical part of Britains' rural and culinary heritage and encouraging the regeneration of some national traditional breeds at a time when greater interest is developing in natural quality produce.
For more information on the Rare Breeds Survival Trust their web-site is at
www.rbst.org.uk.
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