Katie Taylor MBE converted old farm buildings on The Drewton Estate in October 2010 and laid out a small farm shop on a single bench. Fifteen years later the same buildings carry seven departments under one cream-and-brick roof, a Farm Shop, a Kitchen restaurant on the old Druids Town site, a Tearoom, a Delicatessen, a Butcher counter, a Cellar of Yorkshire-distilled spirits and beers, and a Luxuries store that doubles as the hamper bench. In March 2025 Katie’s son Frederick Cole was appointed director, the second-generation step that most farm shops never quite manage. North of South Cave village on the A1034, fourteen miles west of Hull, seventeen miles south-west of Beverley.
The 2010 conversion took a row of old farm buildings on The Drewton Estate and laid them out as a working food destination. Fifteen years on, the seven departments share one shopfloor, one supplier network, one named owner. Each carries the same aubergine-on-cream sub-mark you see across the Estate.
Fresh fruit, vegetables, salads and herbs from local growers and from the Estate's own fields. Free-range eggs from nearby farms. Cupboard staples that lean hard on the local register, Yorkshire rapeseed oil, Pure Wold's Honey from a Beverley apiary, Bracken Hill preserves from York. Click & Collect runs every weekday.
Brunch, lunch and afternoon tea across the dining rooms, with the courtyard tables open through summer. Reservations recommended. Menus rotate on the seasonal produce the Farm Shop is buying that week. The site itself is the old food-preparation ground of a Roman settlement once known as Druids Town, the place the Estate took its name from.
Afternoon tea is a dedicated slot inside the Kitchen, a tiered stand of finger sandwiches, scones with clotted cream and East Yorkshire jam, cakes and traybakes from the deli baker. Twenty-four hours advance notice for the full tier. Pots of tea by the cup-and-saucer set across the afternoon for the walk-in crowd.
Cold meats, pies and pastries, salads and olives, cheese cut to order, pâté, crackers and biscuits, cakes and traybakes baked on the floor that morning, and the takeout bench for a sandwich and a coffee to walk out with. Cheese cut by the half-pound or the wedge, charcuterie by the slice or the board.
Speciality sausages, burgers and the choicest cuts prepared in-house by the skilled butcher team. Twenty-one-day air-dried matured beef, local venison and rare-breed cuts, dry-cured bacon, York ham, locally-smoked gammon and poultry. Hampers and BBQ selection boxes built to order. Weekly specials on fillet, rib-eye, sirloin and rump steaks.
A carefully-selected range of wines, champagnes, local ales and spirits from small Yorkshire producers. Wold Top Brewery from Hunmanby, Little Wold Vineyard grown in South Cave parish itself, Hooting Owl Distillery from York, Raisthorpe Manor from Thixendale, Atom Beers from Hull, Filey Bay single malt from the Spirit of Yorkshire distillery on the Wolds.
Gifts, fresh and artificial flowers, seasonal decorations, candles, home furnishings, toys, and the bench where every Drewton's hamper is built from the shelves around it. Yorkshire Candle Company from Hull, Cartwright & Butler from Gilberdyke (115 years on the same site), Lottie Shaw's bakery from Brighouse (since 1912), Botham's of Whitby (since 1912).
The Taylor family took on The Drewton Estate in 2004. Six years later, in October 2010, Katie Taylor opened the first Drewton’s shop in sympathetically converted farm buildings on the same Estate. Her own story, told plainly on the Estate’s /story page, is that she came from a family of textile businesses, organised charity events with such methodical care she was fondly known on the local circuit as ‘Clipboard Katie’, and read ‘A Woman of Substance’ young enough that the determination to run her own enterprise was settled before the shop was even an idea.
The shop opened on one bench and one set of double doors. Fifteen years on it is seven departments under one cream-and-brick roof, drawing from a 250-strong, mapped, Yorkshire-only supplier network. In May 2019 the Manor Rooms opened on the Estate as an exclusive wedding and private-events venue. In 2023 the Old Cowshed, a late-1800s single-storey farm building, was converted to self-catering accommodation. The Estate’s biomass boilers and solar panels were laid in over the same decade.
The line that closes a fifteen-year shop story is the succession. On 12 March 2025 Katie’s son Frederick Maxwell Taylor Cole was appointed director of Drewtons Limited. Two Taylors on the board, two generations on the Estate, and forty-five local people employed across the shop, the Kitchen, the Manor Rooms and the cottages. The Estate is one of the top five per cent of UK employers by ratio of local hire.
“With a flair for organising charity events and interior design, she was fondly known as ‘Clipboard Katie’.” Drewton’s on the founder, /story page.
Drewton’s sources exclusively from Yorkshire farmers, growers, producers and distillers. The in-shop banner plots them, dot-by-dot, across the county map. The Cellar shelf carries Wold Top Brewery beer brewed seven miles north, Little Wold Vineyard wine grown on a vineyard in South Cave parish itself, Pure Wold’s Honey from a Beverley apiary, and Raisthorpe Manor liqueur from the Yorkshire Wolds village of Thixendale. The Luxuries store carries Cartwright & Butler from Gilberdyke (115 years on the same site), Lottie Shaw’s bakery from Brighouse (since 1912), Botham’s of Whitby (since 1912), Yorkshire Pasta from Malton, Yorkshire Candle Company from Hull, Choc Affair and Guppy’s Chocolate from York.
Eight of two-hundred-and-fifty. The full list lives on the suppliers page. Every cellar bottle, every loaf, every preserve traces back to a named Yorkshire address.
Drewton’s is on The Drewton Estate, just north of South Cave village on the A1034. Fourteen miles west of Hull, seventeen miles south-west of Beverley, on the southern edge of the Yorkshire Wolds. Free on-site parking on a working estate. The Farm Shop, Deli, Butcher, Cellar and Luxuries store are inside the main building, the Kitchen restaurant is on the opposite side of the brick courtyard, and the Manor Rooms wedding venue is across the Estate path.
If your question is not here, pop in to the Estate, drop a note to info@drewtons.co.uk, or phone during opening hours.
The Drewton Estate is just north of South Cave village on the A1034, fourteen miles west of Hull and roughly seventeen miles south-west of Beverley. Free on-site parking on a working estate. The shopfront sits on the brick courtyard, the Kitchen restaurant on the opposite side of the same courtyard.
Walk-ins by available table, but bookings are strongly recommended at weekends and for the full afternoon tea tier (twenty-four hours notice for that). Phone 01430 425079 or email info@drewtons.co.uk. The courtyard tables open from late spring through to the end of summer.
Yes. The butchery air-dries beef on the bone for twenty-one days before cutting. Local venison and rare-breed pork from Yorkshire farms, dry-cured bacon and York ham, locally-smoked gammon and poultry. Hampers and BBQ selection boxes to order.
Yes. The Luxuries store doubles as the hamper bench. Pick the basket, point to the shelves, and the team builds it in front of you. Order at the counter or by phone on 01430 425079. Lead time on the bigger hampers is a few days in the December rush.
The Old Cowshed self-catering cottage welcomes dogs. Inside the Farm Shop is two-legged only, but the Kitchen courtyard tables in summer take well-behaved dogs on-lead. Water bowls on the courtyard step.