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Top 25 Butcher shops based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 374 butcher shops headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 1,389 professional contacts across them, including 264 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers butcher shops headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
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The 25 largest butcher shops based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MJ Birtwistle & Co is a rapidly expanding successful group that encompasses all aspects of the meat trade, which is achieving significant growth organically and by acquisition.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Independent family-run butcher based in London where traditional expert butchery, quality and consistency remain at the heart of our business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Owen Taylor & Sons Ltd is a catering and retail butcher based in Leabrooks, Derbyshire.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Althams Butchers is one of the oldest and largest independent family owned and run butchers in the country.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “National wholesale butcher supplying a full range of quality meat to chefs and caterers throughout England, Wales and Scotland, from specialist butcher sites in Scotland and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Award winning butcher and farm shop retailer located throughout England” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our story started back in when Frank King opened up a Butchers Stall in Wigan's famous Market Hall.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Exceptional butchers to the catering trade and home of the famous & award-winning “Lingfield Sausage.” Since 1982 we have been a family-owned catering butchers and remain so today.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We have some of the finest meat in Yorkshire with close links to the local farmers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Owton's, your trusted destination for locally sourced meat of the highest quality.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in August 2011 Carnbrooke is owned by husband-and-wife team Jason & Jacqueline Hamilton.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “County Foods are one of the largest, independent, family owned and run catering butchers in the South.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vicars Game specialises in producing the highest quality meat and game products to some of the country’s finest restaurants and wholesale markets, and also direct to the public…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Wessex Country Gammons, established in 1987 and still going strong today.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cranstons was founded in 1914 by Stanley Cranston in the village of Kirkoswald.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are an online butcher selling quality-assured, free-range Midshires rose veal, beef, lamb, chicken and pork.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Award winning Artisanal Butcher and Delicatessen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Thorner’s began with the simple idea of providing quality butchery meat, sourced locally in Somerset whenever possible.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Parson's Nose are butchers of London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Hampstead Butcher & Providore is your premier local butcher, delicatessen, charcuterie, cheese, wine shop and grocer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Swaledale Butchers LTD is a food & beverages company based out of Unit 3, Cawder Park, Snaygill Industrial Estate, Keighley Road, Skipton BD23 2QR” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We celebrate the best of what the West Country can offer: Sourcing our amazing meat, poultry and game direct from farmers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “McAtamney’s has a long, robust history in the butchery business dating back to 1933 when the first shop was established in Kilrea.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Retail and catering butcher.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Middlesex Meat is a family run company established in 1971.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: butcher shops. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names butcher shops.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of butcher shops, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name butcher shops. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Butcher shops based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 374 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among butcher shops, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “butcher shops”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names butcher shops), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among butcher shops, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 264 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Butcher shops by metro
- Butcher shops in London34
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names butcher shops, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many butcher shops are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 374 butcher shops headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Birtwistles Catering Butchers, headquartered in Manchester, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most butcher shops?
London leads with 34 headquartered companies, followed by Coventry (5) and Bath (3).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 264 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 374 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.