Makers near Bollington, Cheshire East

Treacle Town Bakehouse

Bakery & Patisserie · Macclesfield

about 3 miles away

Jack Emmott bakes twice a week from a single deck oven in a converted unit off Waters Green, feeding a rye starter he has kept going since 2019. The name is a nod to Macclesfield's old nickname — Treacle Town — and his dark rye and treacle loaf sells out most bake days by ten.

Coppice & Canvas

Artwork · Wilmslow

about 6 miles away

Daniel paints and prints from a light-filled studio behind his Wilmslow house, working in oils and hand-pulled linocuts of the Cheshire countryside he walks every morning. Each print is pulled in small numbered editions on a hundred-year-old press.

Kiln & Copse

Ceramics · Congleton

about 10 miles away

Rhian throws in a converted barn on the edge of Congleton, firing every piece in a wood-kiln she built herself from reclaimed brick. She digs a little of her own clay from the field behind the workshop each spring, folding it into the mix so every glaze carries a trace of that particular Cheshire ground.

Marl & Wick

Candles · Congleton

about 11 miles away

Jodie pours small batches of rapeseed-wax candles in her Congleton kitchen, scented with botanicals grown on the allotment two doors down. Nothing synthetic, nothing rushed.

Woven Hollow

Textiles · Knutsford

about 11 miles away

Priya weaves throws and cushions on a hundred-year-old dobby loom, using undyed wool from a flock ten miles from her Knutsford studio.

Tabley Wick Co.

Candles · Knutsford

about 11 miles away

Naomi hand-pours small batches of rapeseed wax candles from a garden studio near Knutsford, blending her own scents from essential oils rather than synthetic fragrance. Every wick is trimmed and every jar labelled by hand before it leaves the studio.

Copper Pan Fudge

Chocolate & Confectionery · Holmes Chapel

about 13 miles away

Meera makes fudge, caramels and truffles in a forty-year-old copper pan in her kitchen on the edge of Holmes Chapel, with cream collected twice a week from a dairy farm three miles up the road. Everything is boiled to temperature on a sugar thermometer, beaten by hand and cut with a wire the same afternoon. Boxes are packed to order, so nothing sits on a shelf.

Anvil & Ember

Metalwork · Sandbach

about 15 miles away

Connor forges at a coal-fired hearth in a Sandbach industrial unit, hand-hammering steel and iron into functional pieces built to outlast him. He trained under a fourth-generation blacksmith and still lights the forge the same way every morning.

Salt Town Distillery

Drinks & Cordials · Middlewich

about 16 miles away

Nisha Bhamra distils in a canal-side unit off Brooks Lane, close to where Middlewich's brine pans once stood. Her gins run through a 100-litre copper still she calls Vera, with a pinch of Cheshire salt in every botanical basket — a nod to a town that has made salt since the Romans. Batches rarely top 200 bottles, each one numbered by hand.

Lymm Cross Patisserie

Bakery & Patisserie · Lymm

about 17 miles away

Leyla Osman spent six years on the pastry section of a Manchester hotel kitchen before setting up a registered kitchen just off Eagle Brow, a short walk from the village cross. She bakes in small weekend runs for collection, and her celebration cakes are usually booked about a month ahead.

The Budworth Buttery

Cheese & Dairy · Great Budworth

about 18 miles away

Aneta Kowalczyk learned to make twaróg in her grandmother's kitchen outside Kraków, and started The Budworth Buttery from a converted outbuilding behind her house in Great Budworth in 2019. She collects milk twice a week from a single herd at Comberbach, two miles down the road, and everything is made, potted and labelled within a day of it arriving.

Salt & Sill

Home Décor · Northwich

about 18 miles away

Louise gathers and finishes small pieces for the home from a workshop near Northwich's old salt works, pairing locally thrown ceramics with hand-poured candles and woven textiles she sources from makers she trusts. Everything on her shelf is chosen, never mass-bought.

Stillwater Ceramics

Ceramics · Nantwich

about 24 miles away

Elena throws every piece on a wheel her grandfather built, in a converted dairy on the edge of Nantwich. Her glazes are mixed from ash gathered on the Cheshire plain — no two firings are ever quite the same.

Brine & Bloom

Jewellery · Nantwich

about 24 miles away

Isla casts and sets from a bench in Nantwich, working recycled silver and gold alongside hand-set stones into forms borrowed from the wildflowers along the Weaver. Every piece is finished by hand with a burnisher that belonged to her grandmother, a silversmith in Amritsar.