Freemans Butchers

Freemans has traded from the corner of Topsfield Parade in Crouch End as a traditional family butcher, working with free range Scotch beef, West Country lamb and English free range pork rather than volume suppliers. The shop holds a licensed game dealer's status, bringing in seasonal birds and venison through autumn and winter, and makes its own sausages on the premises rather than buying them in. Staff will joint, dice or mince to order, and the counter runs a Christmas turkey list every December that regulars book into well ahead of time. Trading six days a week with shorter Sunday hours, the shop sits among the run of independent traders that has defined this stretch of Tottenham Lane for years, still operated as a single neighbourhood butcher rather than an expanding chain.