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The Hop Pocket Craft Centre is a large craft and gift centre located in rural Herefordshire, midway between the cities of Worcester and Hereford. Besides the Craft Centre there is our Farmhouse Fayre Restaurant, a plant centre and over 20 unique and independent shops.

We are now back open after the bad weather. Please see below for opening times.

The Craft Centre

Farmhouse Fayre Restaurant

The Shopping Village

Opening Times

From January 2nd 2010

Wed	10am - 5.30pm
Thur	10am - 5.30pm
Fri	10am - 5.30pm
Sat	10am - 5.30pm
Sun	11am - 5pm
Closed Mondays & Tuesdays until March

First started as a small shop in 1988 it now is 20 times its original size. We are proud of the nicknames we have been given, ‘Alladin’s Cave’ & ‘Little Harrods’. We stock a wide range of items, from handmade crafts to gifts of all sizes and value.

The restaurant at the Hop Pocket allows you to enjoy morning coffee, a light farmhouse cooked lunch and of course our scrumptious homemade cakes. Our food is freshly prepared and cooked on the premises. Lunches are served everyday that we are open between 12pm and 2pm. Either side of lunch we serve coffee, tea and homemade cakes.

Farmhouse Cooks

We are fiercely proud of our farming heritage and links with the local community at the Hop Pocket. This is perhaps most obvious in the kitchen where genuine farm housewives cook up the food that we serve. The range of dishes is extensive, with the emphasis being on wholesome food at a reasonable price.

Homemade Food

Homemade at the Hop Pocket means made by our cooks in our kitchen. Everything from the soup, to the lasagne, to the quiche is made by Sue, Kate and Maggie.

Audrey is the secret ingredient in our scrumptious cakes, she usually bakes them twice a week.

Fresh is Best

We use the freshest, most local ingredients we can. All our meat comes from our own butcher Pete, his shop ‘The Cutting Block’ is just around the corner. We buy as much of our fruit & veg as we can from Worcester Produce (who source from their own farms in the Vale of Evesham) and Biosphere Organics up the road, and we get milk from the local milkman.

Along with our food, Jane and Sue M keep our service 'fresh'.

The Craft Shopping Village opened in 2003 to compliment the Craft Centre. The Village is housed in a large set of old hop kilns, covering two floors that are accessible by a lift and three staircases.

The Shopping Village has the same opening times as the Craft Centre.

Downstairs

Downstairs in the Shopping Village there is Gifted in two sections that offer a huge range of unusual gifts, Woodpecker Pine has English pine furniture with a bespoke service at no extra cost. Wyestyles has ladies fashions at very reasonable prices.

Art & Glass offer a wide range of creative and original lighting, mirrors and splashbacks. There is also a range of quality, affordable shoes, slippers and socks, including the very popular 'Hotter' range, at Kokko Footwear. Pinches Pantry Cookshop offers a wide range of quality cookware, kitchen accessories and coffees.

Upstairs

Upstairs opens into a large room with the Art & Glass Studio. J & J Interiors offer a wide range of furniture and furnishings, including the Maxwell & Williams and LSA glassware ranges.

Nowherelse Gifts & Crafts offers all sorts of wooden toys and items, many of which can be personalised. Runaway Designs has scarves, bags and jewellery.

A large space is given over to the GreenStage Gallery which specialises in affordable and original contemporary art by emerging and established artists in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere. Completing the line up is the Print Room, which has a selection of unmounted, mounted and framed prints of the countryside, animals and country pursuits.

Best Selling Items

Winnie the Pooh Alphabet Letters £8.95 Choose a letter or letters from A - Z. These charming Winnie the Pooh hand-painted resin letters are a wonderful addition to any nursery, whether you decide to purchase a single letter or multiple letters. Each vowel features Winnie the Pooh, so Pooh appears in most names. The letters can be hung on the wall or stood on tables, shelves or dressers. Each letter is apporx 3 inches (7 cm) in height. Available in all 26 letters of the alphabet. Letter E is out of stock. find out more		Classic Winnie the Pooh Days of the Week - Sunday £14.00 These wonderful Days Of The Week Classic Winnie The Pooh figurines make perfect gifts for new babies, christenings and birthdays. On the base of each of the pieces is the rhyme associated with that day, in this case Sunday's Child: But the child that is born on Sabbath day is bonny and blithe and good and gay. Each figurine comes with the classics days of the week rhyme and comes gift boxed and is approx 4 inches (10 cm) in height. Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go, Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for a living. But the child that is born on the Sabbath day is bonny and blithe and good and gay. These Winnie The Pooh Days Of The Week characters make a perfect addition to the Pooh Alphabet Letters. find out more		Dried Hop Garland £27.00 PRICE OF £27 INCLUDES DELIVERY Dried hop garlands (hop bines or hop vines) used as a natual decoration for many years. These hop garlands look fantastic on a beam, over an iglenook or over the top of kitchen cupboards. The garland is about ten feet long with hops along at least eight foot of it. The price shown INCLUDES carriage. These garlands have been grown, dried and treated here at the Hop Pocket allowing a longer season. Dried garlands are available from the end of August right through to the following summer, we keep them in the cool and dark which helps to preserve them. As with any dried flower the hop garland is quite delicate and needs careful treatment, instructions will come in the box, but it is vital that the hop is hung as soon as possible (ideally straight into place). It is not unusual to have some petals drop in the box, but this does not affect the quality of the garland. Because a hop garland is a bulky thing we have priced them to include the carriage. We have been gowing hops for over a hundred years, in the last twenty years we have been drying hop garlands specifically for decoration. We send dried hops out early in the week (usually a tuesday or wednesday) to avoid the chance of the hop being stuck in a courier depot over the weekend. If you have any special requirements please contact us before purchase or indicate them at the checkout in the 'Enter any special delivery instructions' box. You will not be charged until the hop has been dispatched and we will email you to notify you that it has been sent. find out more

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