Eat and drink · Nailsworth
Hobbs House Bakery, Nailsworth
The Nailsworth shop and café of Hobbs House, the fifth-generation family bakery, on George Street, selling bread, cakes and Extract coffee from Monday to Saturday.
The bread shop in Nailsworth, with a small café for coffee and lunch. It is a morning place: the café shuts at 2pm and the bakery at 3pm, and both are closed on Sundays.
- Good: Fresh bread and cakes from a fifth-generation bakery
- Good: Café for coffee and lunch from 8.30am
- Good: Extract coffee
- Worth knowing: Café closes at 2pm, the shop at 3pm
- Worth knowing: Closed on Sundays
About
Hobbs House Bakery has a shop and café at 4 George Street in Nailsworth. The bakery is a family business in its fifth generation and a B Corp, and its shops are stocked each morning with its bread and cakes; the coffee is from Extract.
The bakery opens from 8am to 3pm and the café from 8.30am to 2pm, from Monday to Saturday; both are closed on Sundays. Come early for the best of the bread, and for a coffee and something from the counter, or a sandwich at lunch.
The family's story starts with Thomas, a blacksmith at Down Ampney who learned to bake from his wife Mabel's family, and runs through a century of baking to the Heritage Sourdough the bakery made for its centenary. It has shops in Tetbury and Chipping Sodbury too, and its loaves are also on sale in shops and on restaurant tables across the area.
Nailsworth is a town for eating, with William's on Fountain Street and the pubs above it on the commons. From George Street, the old railway path runs level along the valley to Stroud, and Minchinhampton Common is a steep climb away.
Opening hours and season
Closed, opens Mon 9, 08:00
| Mon | Opening | Café |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 08:00 to 15:00 | 08:30 to 14:00 |
| Tuesday | 08:00 to 15:00 | 08:30 to 14:00 |
| Wednesday | 08:00 to 15:00 | 08:30 to 14:00 |
| Thursday | 08:00 to 15:00 | 08:30 to 14:00 |
| Friday | 08:00 to 15:00 | 08:30 to 14:00 |
| Saturday | 08:00 to 15:00 | 08:30 to 14:00 |
| Sunday | Closed | Closed |
Closed on Sundays.
The details
- Food
- Bakery · Café food
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch
- Booking a table
- Walk-ins only
- Features
- Café · Shop
- History
- A family bakery for more than a hundred years
Location
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Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Waterloo House
- The Olive Tree, Nailsworth 0.0 km away
- William's 0.2 km away
- Egypt Mill 0.2 km away
Sights nearby
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Minchinhampton Common
Sight · Common or park · Minchinhampton
Minchinhampton Common is a wide sweep of limestone grassland above Stroud and Nailsworth, in the care of the National Trust since 1913, where commoners' cattle graze and an Iron Age bank, a long barrow, pillow mounds and wartime trenches lie in the turf. Free to wander.
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Whitfield's Tump, Minchinhampton Common
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Minchinhampton
Whitfield's Tump is a Neolithic long barrow on Minchinhampton Common, a low mound 26m long where early farmers buried their dead, named from the tradition that the preacher George Whitefield spoke from it in 1743. A scheduled monument on free National Trust land.
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The Bulwarks, Minchinhampton
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Minchinhampton
The Bulwarks is a Late Iron Age bank and ditch that sweeps across Minchinhampton Common north and north-west of the town: a bank 10m to 12m wide with a stone face, dated by pottery found in the 1937 excavation. It lies on free National Trust common land.
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Holy Trinity Church, Minchinhampton
Sight · Church · Minchinhampton
Holy Trinity is Minchinhampton's Grade I parish church, known for its fourteenth-century tower whose spire was cut short in 1563 and crowned with a stone coronet, a south transept lit by a great rose window, and the grave of the astronomer James Bradley.