Lacock Dairy (Wilts)

“Lacock Dairy produces high quality Gelato from creamy sweet milk produced on the farm…situated in Lacock. a lovely village in Wiltshire which has a unique history and a beautiful Abbey.” Gelato? Ice-cream that is slight different to ice-cream, but still ice-cream. And Lacock does indeed have ‘history’ in a hunting context – it was the village that welcomed the thugs and pissed-up criminals of the Avon Vale Hunt for a Boxing Day brawl every year. Talking of the Avon Vale, they shafted themselves after a junior member leaked a video of them digging out a fox and largely relocated to Bromham (where the notorious pro-hunt PCC candidate Jonathon Seed has a house). They have now been largely absorbed into the rag-tag Tedworth Hunt. One of the Masters of the Tedworth is David Doel, who Wiltshire Hunt Sabs report was present at the Avon Vale dig out. Doel is also a Director of the Lacock Dairy (and whose home is the base for Reybridge Eventing). As Wiltshire Hunt Sabs pithily puts it, “Given Doel’s role in the Avon Vale fox dig out videos, where live foxes were dug from badger setts and thrown to the Avon Vale hounds to the shrieks of delight from the depraved participants such as Doel, any money spent at his establishment is funding wildlife crime, directly or indirectly.” Lacock Dairy is a regular meet for hunts, and in September 2025 it was the turn of the notorious Royal Artillery Hunt, which was kicked off Salisbury Plain and is now being hosted by the likes of Rew Farm Holiday Accommodation and ‘friends’ linked with the Avon Vale and Tedworth Hunts.