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David Lishman opened his butcher's shop on Leeds Road in Ilkley in 1986 and has spent nearly forty years turning it into one of the best in the country — a family business, run now with his daughter Emma, that cures its own charcuterie and has the Great Taste Awards and, in 2025, the title of Britain's Best Butchers Shop to show for it. It buys well, cuts properly, and makes its own bacon, sausages and salamis in the old way. On the edge of the Dales, in a handsome spa town, it is a genuine destination butcher. Buy the charcuterie; they were making it before most British butchers thought to.