Alan Beecroft and Heather Cornthwaite have run this place at Lancaster Leisure Park for fifteen years. Whole carcasses come to the bench, get broken down by the butchers, and turn up either on the counter to take home, on the carvery to eat in, or in a chilled box on its way across the country. Same meat, three front doors.
The bench at Lancaster Leisure Park is the heart of it. Joints, sausages, bacon, burgers, pies, all cut and made on-site by Alan, Heather and the team. The restaurant next door cooks from the same bench on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The online shop ships chilled boxes anywhere in the UK from a quid.
From carcass to counter, on-site. Beef joints, mince, steaks, the topside roast that goes on the carvery next door on a Sunday. Lamb and mutton, pork including home-cured bacon, poultry from chicken to turkey to duck, plus venison and Scottish lines (haggis, black pudding) and South African biltong cuts. Countrystyle Sausages and Beef Volcanoes made in-house from the pork and beef on the same bench.
Open Fri, Sat and Sun. Breakfast 09:00 to 11:30, lunches and burgers 11:30 to 15:00, coffee and home-baked cakes 15:00 to 16:00. The Sunday Four Meat Carvery runs 12:00 to 17:00 with beef, pork, lamb and turkey carved to order from joints that came off the butchers bench the same morning. 4.2 stars across 362 TripAdvisor reviews, ranked #30 of 165 restaurants in Lancaster. Booking recommended on 01524 841 111.
Full online butchers shop. Click and Collect at Lancaster Leisure Park, free local delivery across Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham, chilled overnight delivery across the rest of the country from as little as £1. Bestsellers from £3 Beef Volcanoes to a £57.60 Topside joint. Bulk freezer-fill packs cut to the customer's specification. Hampers and gift vouchers, plus a monthly £100-of-meat raffle.
Countrystyle Kitchen sits in the same building as the butchers counter. The beef on the carvery is the beef on the counter. The lamb is the lamb on the counter. The pork in the sausage roll is the pork on the counter. Nothing travels further than the doorway between the two rooms.
Roasted slowly through Saturday night, carved on the carvery section Sunday lunchtime, alongside roast potatoes, seasonal vegetables, stuffing, Yorkshire puddings and gravy made from the bones. Coffee and home-baked cakes through the afternoon. The dining room seats around sixty; bookings recommended for parties of three or more on a Sunday.
“The carvery was lovely and everything was lovely and fresh and a good variety of veg. Staff were amazing even though very busy. We will be returning on our next visit.” From recent TripAdvisor reviews of Countrystyle KitchenBook a carvery table · 01524 841 111
Alan Beecroft and Heather Cornthwaite started CountryStyle as a butchery in 2007 and moved the operation to Lancaster Leisure Park in 2011, opening the farm shop alongside the butchers counter. Their words from the about page have not changed in fifteen years: “from carcass to counter, we can do it all”.
The kitchen opened on the same site in 2014, and the Four Meat Carvery on Sundays has been the signature ever since. CountryStyle Meats Ltd was incorporated at Companies House in 2020 with Alan and Heather as the two directors, both still hands-on through the week. Visit Lancashire named them a Sub-Regional Partner in 2018.
Almost two decades in, the operation runs to a rhythm: trailers in from Gisburn Auction Mart Thursday and Saturday, the bench busy Friday morning ahead of the weekend, the kitchen turning Friday lunch through Sunday teatime, the online orders going out Monday through Wednesday. Open seven days, run by the same two people who opened it.
The bench is staffed seven days a week. The restaurant only fires up the kitchen for the weekend, with the Four Meat Carvery as the Sunday centrepiece. If you are after a roast joint to cook at home, the counter is open Mon-Sun. If you are after a roast on the plate, that is Sunday only.
Tell us what you want and roughly when. A roasting joint for Sunday lunch, a freezer pack cut to your spec, a hamper to send across the country, a table for six at the carvery. We will phone or email back to confirm what is on the bench and when to collect.
Chilled overnight UK delivery on next-day refrigerated carriers from £1. Free Click and Collect at Lancaster Leisure Park. Free local delivery across Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham.
We share the site with the Lancaster Leisure Park complex on Wyresdale Road, with plenty of off-road parking for cars and coaches, wheelchair access, disabled toilets, and the Ice Cream Parlour running through the warmer months. The Forest of Bowland AONB sits a few miles east; the Lake District is forty minutes north on the M6.
If your question is not here, phone the shop on 01524 841 111 during opening hours, or email sales@countrystylemeats.co.uk.
Booking strongly recommended, especially for Sunday lunch parties of three or more. The carvery runs 12:00 to 17:00 every Sunday with beef, pork, lamb and turkey carved to order alongside roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, seasonal vegetables, stuffing and gravy. Walk-ins are welcomed when there are tables free, but a Sunday afternoon in summer is usually full by 13:00. Call the restaurant on 01524 841 111 to book or to ask about a private dining setup.
Yes. We will take an order for a half-lamb, a whole-lamb, a quarter or half of beef, or a half-pig, and we will cut it down to whatever combination of joints, mince, sausages, bacon and burgers you want. Phone the butchers on 01524 841 111 with a rough idea of your freezer size and what you eat most of, and we will spec the cut sheet back to you. Allow two to three weeks for whole-carcass orders so the meat hangs properly first. Bulk packs are also available off the shelf if you want something quicker.
Yes, chilled overnight delivery across England, Wales and most of Scotland from £1 a parcel through our online shop. The boxes go out in insulated chilled packaging on a next-day refrigerated carrier. Click and Collect at Lancaster Leisure Park is free, as is local delivery across Lancaster, Morecambe, Heysham and the immediate Lancashire postcodes. We can build a custom hamper to send across the country, with a roasting joint, the sausages and bacon, pies and a cake from the kitchen counter.
The farm shop and the butchers counter are open every day. Mon to Thu 09:00 to 17:00, Fri and Sat 09:00 to 17:30, Sun 10:30 to 16:30. Countrystyle Kitchen (the restaurant) is open Fri to Sun only, with breakfast served 09:00 to 11:30, lunches and burgers 11:30 to 15:00, the Sunday carvery 12:00 to 17:00, and coffee and home-baked cakes 15:00 to 16:00. The Ice Cream Parlour opens through the warmer months, serving twenty-four flavours of Wallings ice cream.
Wherever possible we source from local farmers and suppliers across Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cumbria and Cheshire. Whole carcasses come to the bench and are broken down in-house, which means the cut on the counter, the joint on the carvery, and the sausage roll in the bakery are all traceable back to the same supplier. We also run a paid cutting-up service for farmers and smallholders bringing in their own livestock, which is something most farm shops do not offer. The Forest of Bowland National Landscape producer directory and the Visit Lancashire 2018 Partner award are both signals that local sourcing is the operating principle, not a marketing line.