HIGH CLASS FAMILY BUTCHERS

For the one hundred years that our business has been established we have been committed to providing only the best quality, locally sourced products to our customers.

We try to source all of our meat locally.  Most of our beef comes from Houghton Farm which is owned by Mervyn Hayman who buys in and finishes store cattle. These are slaughtered by his brother Philip Hayman in nearby Ottery St Mary and hung for a minimum of fourteen days.   Lamb and pork is also sourced locally from Philip.

Even though our early reputation was based on our role as a family butcher, over the years we have diversified by producing a wide range of pasties, pies, cooked meats and ready meals many of which have been awarded national prizes.

Haymans has been a member of the Q Guild of Butchers since 1986.  The Guild is an association of meat retailers committed to offering the best of everything to their customers.  Member shops undergo regular independent audits to rigorous standards of technical excellence.

History

In 1907, for a deposit of just thirty five pounds, John James Hayman acquired a butcher's shop in Church Street, Sidmouth, from the Bastin family.  Now, in 2007, the family run business is celebrating its first centenary!

Everyday butchery took place in these premises until the 1940's when the practice of slaughtering at the rear of the shop ceased.

Stewart Hayman (John James's great grandson) and his wife Shirley have been at the helm since 1998.  Although the town of Sidmouth itself may be steeped in history Stewart and Shirley run a very and modern progressive butchery business with a growing range of products that Stewart reckons his grandmother (Lilian Irene Hayman) would have been proud of.

Lilian Irene was the driving force behind much of the business in its earlier days.  Her recipe for pork brawn is still in use, unchanged, today.  In 2003 it won the Q Guild's Supreme Award - the ultimate accolade and later, as a result, the shop featured on BBC "Rick Stein's Food Heroes".

In 2000 Stewart and Shirley opened another shop in Woolbrook, on the outskirts of Sidmouth, offering another outlet for their customers to choose from.

In 1996 a bakery section was opened and now Hayman's has become as well known for its pies and pasties as it is for its sausages and brawn!