Bidlea Dairy started off selling their homemade ice creams back in 2020 and it’s grown as a business massively over the last couple of years.
The family-run Bidlea Dairy is in Twemlow, near Holmes Chapel. They have built a large wooden building which has both indoor and outdoor seating including a viewing platform where you can eat your ice cream cones while looking out across rolling fields and on to the famous Jodrell Bank Observatory.
They serve about 20 different flavours of icecreams, including a couple of sorbets. The icecream is produced on site using milk from their very own herd. Get your scoops in a tub or cone. No toppings are needed on these flavours, just one of Bidlea’s personalised, instagramable, wafers.
It’s not just ice creams they’re famous for. They have been dairy farmers for 3 generations and the milk from their 1000 strong herd of Holstein-Fresian cows has a good reputation and has lead to them winning both national and European awards. They do door step milk deliveries as well as having a milk vending machine on the farm. They also make and sell a variety of single cream, whipping cream, double cream and salted butter.
The cafe also served hot drinks, hot homemade soup and the most amazing cakes. We visited over Easter and enjoyed cream egg and mini egg brownies. The Easter theme was also in some of the icecream flavours including a cream egg and malteaser bunny flavour.
The farm is starting to be a hub for businesses with “Zoo2U” and “Burts Cheese” located on the premises. They have held art exhibits and their function room is perfect for kids parties or meetings.
We like to do a walk from Holmes Chapel to Bidlea. It takes us about 45minutes to walk and is perfect for a Spring day. Walk to Bidlea, enjoy an icecream or cake and then walk back. Perfect.
