Bray's Cottage Pork Pies

Unusually good pork pies

We make beautiful, bespoke pork pies within sight of the sea on the wild North Norfolk coast. I grew up in the Midlands, so pork pies were a feature of everyday life, but when I started my own business I wanted the ones we make to be a bit different.

We couldn't be prouder of being in one of the most glorious spots overlooking the sea above Cley and Blakeney in North Norfolk. We make the finest pork pies in a beautiful converted flint hay barn, which has beams, a red tiled roof and a sheltered walled garden courtyard. The flint-walled office leads into the bakery (with its old bread oven), which leads in to the pie makery, so we all move between tasks as the day demands. We relish using local seasonal ingredients, foraging for wild garlic in spring and sourcing apples from the Sandringham Estate, further along the coast, in autumn. Windowsills and desks in the office often have posies of flowers found on lunchtime walks along the network of paths around the woods.