Scottish ice cream brand to be made in Yorkshire

Ice cream making will move about 150 miles from Galloway to North Yorkshire

Production of a popular south of Scotland ice cream brand is to be moved 150 miles away to North Yorkshire.

Cream o' Galloway was bought by Brymor a year ago in what the new owner called a "just in time" deal to prevent the loss of a "much-loved and cherished" brand.

It continued making the ice cream at the farm near Gatehouse of Fleet throughout 2024, but said the site was "tired and required significant new investment".

In a statement on its website, the company confirmed it was consolidating manufacturing to its site outside Masham in Yorkshire.

Brymor said the move would mean that Cream o' Galloway would benefit from "newer, more efficient equipment" and the environmentally-friendly resources that it said it had implemented over the last four years.

The company said it would continue to distribute the Cream o' Galloway range from Ashland's at Twynholm while moving its ice cream parlour to within the nearby Cocoabean Company.

Cream o' Galloway launched in 1994. A small play area was added to the site a year later, along with a visitor centre in 2000.

A woodland playground shut at the end of 2020 as a result of Covid and the brand was sold to Brymor last year.