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There’s a delicious solution to socially distanced ice cream, and that’s a Snugburys drive-thru and take-home tubs

- Lauren Allen

Prettily perched on the A51 at Hurleston near Nantwich, Snugburys is an ice-cream lover’s paradise.

The picture-perfect cobbled courtyard ice-cream shop is loved not only by locals, but by pudding-loving passers-by and those who deviously detour that way for their summer fix.

The ice cream’s indulgent creaminess gives its 40 flavours a stand-out luxury that 300,000 people flock to taste every year.

“Our parents started Snugburys in 1986,” says marketing director Kitty Hill – middle daughter and second generation running the business based at the family home, Park Farm. “They were dairy farmers and had surplus milk so they started making ice cream in very small quantities in their kitchen. Everyone loved it and it progressed to one of the farm outbuildings, where it is today.”

Milk was replaced with cream as the main ingredient when the family changed its Friesian herd to Jerseys. Parents Chris and Cheryl Sadler now focus solely on organic arable, with Kitty and her sisters Cleo Sadler, 26, and Hannah Goodwin, 34, taking over Snugburys four years ago.

They source their ingredients from local dairy farmers.