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Bridport Food & Drink

Bridport Food & Drink is a celebration of the abundant variety of food and drink grown and made in and around Bridport and West Bay in West Dorset.

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This Video features Bridport Food Festival, Bridport Beer Festival, The Melplash Show, Bridport Farmers' Market and the WI Country Market. There are revellers at the Bridport Hat Festival enjoying cocktails at The Bull Hotel, cows being milked at Modbury Farm, apples picked at Elwell Fruit Farm, potatoes harvested at Washingpool Farm, carrots for everyone from Bothen Hill Produce, fish from Samways Fish Merchants, oysters for breakfast and seafood for lunch at The Riverside Restaurant in West Bay. The West Milton Cider Company and the Marshwood Vale Cider Company show their wares and there's a glimpse inside the historic brewhouse at Palmers Brewery.

The film is set to 'Hearts & Minds' by Bridport band The Gravity Drive, (copyright 2013 Elijah Wolf Music all rights reserved; used in this video with The Garvity Drive's permission). See

Food & Drink is one of three videos filmed and edited by Bridport-based Watershed PR for The Spirit of Bridport group ( The other two videos are Bridport Landscape & Seascape and Bridport Art & Culture. All three were filmed by Jonathan Hudston, Stephen Banks and Nick Gilbey, and directed and edited by Stephen and Jonathan. The producer was Sara Hudston. See The project was part financed by the European Agricultural Fund for European Development 2007- 2013: Europe Investing in Rural Areas and delivered through the Chalk & Cheese Local Action Group with Defra as the managing authority.