Taste of the West Gold · Loddiswell + Modbury · Winzer family since around 1980

South Hams butchers since around 1980. Lamb and beef from the family farm, cut on the bench.

Three generations of Winzers across the Aune valley. Richard John Winzer rears the sheep and finishes the beef at Higher Coarsewell Farm in Ugborough, brings them down to the bench at Rake Farm in Loddiswell, and sells across two counters. The cafe his sister Amy runs, that opened with mary berry cutting the ribbon, is in its eleventh year next door. The high-street butchers on Church Street in Modbury carries the same name.

c.1980Alan Winzer builds the original shop at Rake Farm

5 miFrom Higher Coarsewell to the bench

2Shops, one family, three generations

See the two shops Order ahead for the weekend

The Aune Valley farm shop and Valley View Cafe building at Rake Farm, Loddiswell, with sheep grazing on the hill behind

Rake Farm · Loddiswell · TQ7 4DA The farm shop, the butchery and the cafe. The sheep on the hill behind belong to the family.

3Generations of Winzers

2Shops · Loddiswell + Modbury

1Family farm at Higher Coarsewell

GoldTaste of the West, both shops

Two shops · one family · four miles apart

The farm shop at Rake Farm, the high-street butchers in Modbury. Same meat, same family, two front doors.

Both shops cut from the same animals. Rake Farm in Loddiswell is the bigger of the two, with the cafe and the deli and the seven-day-a-week pattern. Modbury is the high-street face, Mon to Sat on the A379 through the Saxon market town. Pick whichever is on your route.

Farm shop + cafe + butchery

Loddiswell

Rake Farm. The bigger of the two. Open Sundays.

Butchery counter, deli, kitchen, hampers, click-and-collect, and Valley View Cafe under one roof. Off-road parking, wheelchair-accessible, the cafe deck has the view back to the valley.

Address: Rake Farm, Loddiswell, Kingsbridge, Devon TQ7 4DA
Phone: 01548 550413
Cafe: 01548 559126

Opening hours

Mon 08:00 to 17:00
Tue 08:00 to 17:00
Wed 08:00 to 17:00
Thu 08:00 to 17:00
Fri 08:00 to 17:00
Sat 08:00 to 17:00
Sun 09:00 to 16:00 · Cafe and farm shop only

Traditional family butchers

Modbury

6 Church Street. The high-street face on the A379.

The Modbury shop is the village-butchers version of the operation. Same lamb and beef, cut on the same morning, sold over a smaller counter on the A379 through the centre of the Saxon market town. Closed Sundays, the bench takes the day off.

Address: 6 Church Street, Modbury, Ivybridge, Devon PL21 0QW
Phone: 01548 830240
On the route: A379 between Plymouth and Kingsbridge, opposite the bay-windowed cottages on Church Street.

Opening hours

Mon 08:00 to 17:00
Tue 08:00 to 17:00
Wed 08:00 to 17:00
Thu 08:00 to 17:00
Fri 08:00 to 17:00
Sat 08:00 to 16:00
Sun Closed · Closed. Cross the valley to Loddiswell.

On the counter · the bench at Rake Farm

What we cut, what we cook, who runs the cafe.

The bench at Rake Farm is the heart of it. Joints, sausages, burgers, bacon, pies, scotch eggs, all from the same animals the family rears. The cafe next door runs on the same supply line. The Modbury shop takes its share back across the valley in the van each morning.

A wooden board of Aune Valley sausages, burgers, smoked ribs and baps, photographed overhead

The butchery counter

Lamb and beef reared by Richard at Higher Coarsewell. Cut to order on the bench at Rake Farm.

Whole, half or single joint, from the rump down to the bavette. Sheep born, finished and butchered by the same family. Beef from weaned calves bought in from local farmers and finished at Higher Coarsewell. Pork from local farms in the South Hams. Home-cured bacon to a recipe that has not changed since Grandad's original shop.

The Aune Valley Loddiswell farm shop cabin at Rake Farm with the round Aune Valley sign and sheep on the hill behind

The kitchen

Pies, pasties, scotch eggs, home-baked hams. Made on-site from the cuts on the counter.

Beef in the pies is the beef on the counter. Pork in the sausage rolls is the pork on the counter. Hot-water pastry hand-crimped. Pasties and quiches baked through the morning. Scotch eggs wrapped around the Aune Valley sausage meat. The Valley View Kitchen sits in the same building as the butchery so the trim never travels.

The Winzer family on the New Holland tractor at Higher Coarsewell with sheep in the field behind

The cafe

Valley View Cafe. Eleventh year. Mary Berry cut the ribbon.

Coffee and cake, Sunday lunch with the joint from next door, lunch boards built from the deli. Chef Richard runs the kitchen, Amy Winzer runs the floor. Wooden deck out front with a view back across the Aune valley to the family farm. Open seven days, including Sundays when the butchery is shut on the Modbury side.

The farm · Higher Coarsewell · Ugborough

The lamb is born here, finished here, cut five miles south. The beef from the same hands. The traceable line every other butcher in Devon writes about.

Richard John Winzer is third-generation farmer. He breeds and rears the sheep on the family fields at Higher Coarsewell Farm, near Ugborough, five miles north of the Loddiswell shop. The beef is from weaned calves bought from a small number of trusted local farmers and finished by Richard on the same fields. The cattle never travel further than the journey from the farm to the bench.

The sheep: Born and finished on the family farm at Higher Coarsewell. Grass-fed on South Hams pasture.
The beef: Weaned calves from local farms. Finished by Richard at Higher Coarsewell on the same fields as the sheep.
The pork: Sourced from a handful of South Hams farms with traceable supply.
The journey: 5 miles from farm to bench. Whole animals come down the lane, are cut at Rake Farm, then split between the two shops.

“Over 45 years ago Alan Winzer started the family business you know today as Aune Valley Meat. Farming and butchery have always been at the heart of it, and it has always been a family business.” From the Winzer family Who We Are page

Three generations of Winzers · one family business

Grandad Alan built the shop by hand. Mum Susie baked the cafe's first cakes. Richard and Amy run it now.

Alan Winzer bought the Aune Valley livestock site, the adjacent farms and the quarry around 1980. He built the original butchers shop on the Rake Farm ground by hand, and he laid the foundations the business stands on today. Grandad passed away around twenty-one years ago, but not before the second generation had grown into the work.

The second generation kept the bench going and grew the farm side. Susie Winzer (Mum Susie) baked the early cakes for Valley View Cafe in the years before it had a chef. The Mary Berry ribbon-cutting was the moment the cafe stopped being a side-project and started being a destination in its own right.

Today the third generation runs the business. Richard John Winzer (Richard) rears the lamb and beef at Higher Coarsewell Farm and works the Loddiswell bench. His sister Amy Winzer runs Valley View Cafe with her husband Chef Richard. The Modbury shop trades under the same name on Church Street.

The timeline · c.1980 to today

c.1980: Grandad Alan Winzer buys Aune Valley Livestock with the adjacent farms and quarry. Builds the original butchers shop on the Rake Farm site by hand. Farming and butchery sit side-by-side from day one.
1980s-90s: The shop and the farm grow together. Susie joins the family side. The Winzer name becomes the one Kingsbridge customers know for traceable South Hams meat.
c.2005: Grandad Alan passes away, twenty-one years before today's site copy was written. The second generation carry on. The foundations he laid keep the business moving without him.
2010: Aune Valley Meat Ltd registered at Companies House (07279705), registered office at Higher Coarsewell Farm, Ugborough, the family farm where Richard now rears the sheep.
c.2014: Valley View Cafe opens at Rake Farm. Mary Berry cuts the ribbon. The cafe is the second-generation diversification, putting the cuts from the bench onto the plate next door.
2020s: Modbury branch trading from 6 Church Street, the green-and-cream fascia on the A379 spine through the Saxon market town. Both shops carry the Aune Valley signwriting.
Today: Third-generation Richard rears the lamb and beef at Higher Coarsewell, cuts on the bench at Rake Farm, sells across both counters. Sister Amy and Chef Richard run the cafe. Three generations of Winzers, two retail shops, one farm.

Valley View Cafe · eleventh year · opened by Mary Berry

Valley View Cafe. Chef Richard and Amy Winzer. The cuts from the bench, on the plate next door.

The cafe sits in the same building as the farm shop at Rake Farm. The lamb on the menu is the lamb on the counter, the beef in the pie is the beef on the bench. Chef Richard, husband of Amy Winzer, has run the kitchen since the cafe opened. Mum Susie used to bake the cakes in the early years; the kitchen still uses some of her recipes.

Coffee and cake through the morning, lunch boards built from the deli, a roast joint on a Sunday with the gravy made from the bones. The wooden deck out front looks back across the Aune valley to the family farm five miles north. The cafe runs seven days; the butchers shut Modbury on a Sunday but the cafe and the Loddiswell counter stay open.

Book a table · 01548 559126

An overhead Aune Valley board of sausages, burgers, smoked ribs, baps, BBQ sauce and tongs — From the bench at Rake Farm, on the cafe board.

Order ahead

Pre-order a joint, a half-lamb, a hamper, a Saturday table at the cafe.

Tell us what you want and roughly when. Sunday lunch joint, the box for a freezer, a hamper to send across the country, a table for six on the cafe deck. Phone the Loddiswell butchers for the meat and Valley View Cafe for the table, or fill in the form and we will come back to you.

UK-wide chilled delivery on next-day refrigerated carriers across England and Wales. Free Click-and-Collect at either shop. Free local delivery across the South Hams.

Visit · two shops, one family

Loddiswell on the lane to Kingsbridge, Modbury on the A379. Four miles apart.

Loddiswell is the destination drive, signposted off the A381 between Modbury and Kingsbridge. The Rake Farm site has off-road parking, wheelchair access and the cafe. Modbury is the high-street shop, A379 through the Saxon market town, two-hour street parking on Church Street.

Rake Farm, Loddiswell, Kingsbridge, Devon TQ7 4DA. Signposted off the A381 between Modbury and Kingsbridge. Off-road parking on the Rake Farm yard. Open in Google Maps ↗

6 Church Street, Modbury, Ivybridge, Devon PL21 0QW. On Church Street, the A379 through the centre of the Saxon market town. Street parking on Church Street. Open in Google Maps ↗

Five questions

The ones South Hams customers actually ask at the counter.

If your question is not here, phone the Loddiswell shop on 01548 550413 or the Modbury shop on 01548 830240 during opening hours.

Is the lamb and beef really from your own farm?

Yes. Richard John Winzer rears the sheep and finishes the beef at Higher Coarsewell Farm, Ugborough, five miles north of the Loddiswell shop. The sheep are born, grown and finished on the same fields. The beef is from weaned calves bought from a small number of local South Hams farms and finished by Richard. Both come to the Rake Farm bench whole, are cut here, and travel no further than the Modbury shop on the same morning. Traceable birth to counter on every joint.

What is open on a Sunday?

The Loddiswell farm shop and Valley View Cafe are open Sundays 09:00 to 16:00, with a roast joint counter, the deli, and a full Sunday menu in the cafe. The Modbury shop is closed Sundays, the butchers take the day off. If you are after a leg of lamb for a Sunday lunch, drive the four miles to Loddiswell rather than parking in Modbury.

Can you make up a hamper / send one across the UK?

Yes, we ship chilled hampers to England and Wales overnight on a next-day refrigerated carrier. The standard hampers carry a roasting joint, the sausages, the bacon, a pie, a pasty, jam, chutney and a quarter of Sharpham cheese. Bespoke is fine, tell us what is going in. Click and Collect is free at either shop, free local delivery across the South Hams, and full UK shipping at cost.

Can I order a whole or half animal for the freezer?

Yes. We will take an order for a half-lamb, a whole-lamb, a quarter-of-beef, a half-pig and cut it down to whatever combination of joints, mince, sausages and bacon you want. Phone the Loddiswell butchery on 01548 550413 with a rough idea of the freezer size and what you eat most of, and we will spec the cut sheet back to you before it goes on the rail. Allow two to three weeks for whole-animal orders so the meat hangs properly.

Is the cafe dog-friendly?

Yes. The wooden deck out front of Valley View Cafe is dog-friendly and looks back over the Aune valley to the family farm. Inside on a rainy day is at the manager's discretion at the door. Water bowls at the foot of the deck. Sundays are busy, so come early or expect to share a table.