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A Ward & Son is a traditional family butcher at 35 London Road in Stockton Heath village. The shop is known locally for its home-made pies and cooked meats, with pork pies and sausages singled out by regular customers, alongside fresh-cut meat sold over the counter with the kind of provenance advice a supermarket does not offer. It is a long-standing independent trading from a single Stockton Heath site, part of the run of village-centre shops on London Road. As a counter-service butcher it works to order for larger cuts and seasonal demand, and functions as a neighbourhood food shop rather than a farm-shop destination. Ownership sits with the Ward family rather than any multiple or group.