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The wall of glass-fronted vending lockers inside Thorneybank Farm Shop, filled with onions, carrots, oranges, rolls and jars of honey.
Aberdeenshire

Thorneybank Farm Shop

A family farm shop on the B9001 near Rothienorman, open from 6am to 8pm every day through its wall of vending lockers, selling its own vegetables and home bakes.

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Thorneybank Farm Shop began in the 1970s as a bench of spare vegetables by the road, and three generations of the Stephen family still run it from the same spot on the B9001 near Rothienorman.

These days it's a bright shop lined with glass-fronted vending lockers, the first of their kind in the UK when they arrived in 2018, which means it's open from six in the morning until eight at night, every day of the week. Cash and contactless are both taken. The family grows its own vegetables and tatties and picks them daily, and Catherine Stephen does the baking in house, with her shortbread the favourite. Alongside them you'll find meat from Presly and Co, bread from The Bread Guy, eggs from Duncan Farms, Mackie's ice cream and Inverloch cheese. There's coffee and hot chocolate to take away, so it's a good stop on the road between Inverurie and Turriff, with Fyvie Castle a few miles to the east.

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Before you go

Open every day of the year through its vending lockers; cash and contactless are both taken.

Where
Lower Thorneybank on the B9001, 4 miles from Rothienorman and 6 from Turriff, AB51 8XT.
Open
Every day, 6am to 8pm.
To take away
Coffee and hot chocolate.
Phone
01888 511177

Opening hours

Their website
Monday
6am–8pm
Tuesday
6am–8pm
Wednesday
6am–8pm
Thursday
6am–8pm
Friday
6am–8pm
Saturday
6am–8pm
Sunday
6am–8pm

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Where it is

At Lower Thorneybank on the B9001, between Rothienorman and Turriff, AB51 8XT.

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