Hopkinsons ofLymm

Hopkinsons of Lymm has traded as a family butcher from The Cross, in the centre of Lymm, since 1918. Now in its second century of continuous trading, the shop sources meat locally and prepares it to order, alongside home-made pies, sausages and cooked meats typical of an independent high-street butcher. The Cross is Lymm's historic market square, and Hopkinsons occupies a shopfront among the other independent traders clustered around it. The business is run day to day as a family concern rather than by external management, with opening hours built around the working week: Monday to Friday nine until five, and an earlier Saturday start at eight, closing at five. Sunday closing reflects its trade as a provisions shop rather than a destination retailer. Over a century of continuous ownership under the same name places Hopkinsons among the longer-established independent butchers in the Warrington and Mersey Valley area, predating most of the surrounding high street.