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* Free local delivery on orders over £30
PROPER BUTCHERS SINCE 1820
Christmas at Abbey Meats has been generations in the making. Since 1820, our butchers have prepared the centrepiece of Leighton Buzzard’s festive tables – hand-selected turkeys, dry-cured gammons and heritage-breed joints, readied with the same care that has defined this craft for over two centuries.
from turkey to trimmings
From the crown of the meal to the smallest trimming, everything is prepared in-house. Free-range bronze turkeys, three-bird roasts, chipolatas wrapped in dry-cured bacon, and beautifully marbled rib of beef.












made the proper way
Festive meats worth coming back for
Our Christmas turkeys are free-range bronze birds, slow-grown on smaller farms for flavour and dry-plucked and game-hung in the traditional way – the process that gives the meat its depth and keeps it succulent from crown to leg. Each bird is prepared oven-ready by hand, so the only work left to you is the cooking.
The gammons are cured to a recipe used for generations, ready to glaze and bake into a proper Boxing Day ham. Beside them sit hand-linked pork chipolatas, sage-and-onion stuffing and dry-aged rib of beef – every item cut, seasoned and made up by the same butchers, to the standards Wm. Yirrell set in 1820.







The proof is in the eating
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