Cowman's FamousSausage Shop

The Castle Street premises has been a butcher's for more than a hundred and twenty years, and the Cowburn family took it over in the late 1950s and pointed it at a single idea: sausages, in every variation Lancashire could be persuaded to eat. The counter runs to some seventy varieties by the shop's own count — the famous of the name is a claim the queue adjudicates daily — and Nick and Paul run it today, opening at half past seven most mornings, which is when a proper butcher opens. It was on its stall at the Clitheroe Food Festival in 2024, as it generally is.