Welcome!
Bradbourne Bakery is an award-winning microbakery, baking and delivering handmade bread to households in Sevenoaks.
The bakery is run by lifelong bread enthusiast Annabel Carter.
It is named after Bradbourne Lakes, a lake and community in North Sevenoaks where Annabel used to feed the ducks as a child, and now lives with her family.
How it works
Bradbourne Bakery is a small batch bakery with a weekly changing menu. All bread is baked to order and customers can order as it suits their household.
Customers who live on the bakery’s cycle route can join the mailing list for home deliveries.
Anyone can pre-order and collect loaves from Riverhead, available most Fridays.
The story so far
Unable to find the bread she wanted to buy in her home town, Annabel Carter set about starting a real bread revolution from her kitchen, baking loaves you cannot find anywhere else in Sevenoaks.
In 2018 she sold her first loaf to her neighbour Helen. 6000 loaves and two awards later, she finally bought a specialist brick oven.
Annabel now single-handedly bakes 100 loaves a week and cycles 30km delivering it. This is small batch baking at its very biggest, but without missing the school run.
The bakery’s sourdough has won four Great Taste Award stars over three consecutive years from the Guild of Fine Food.
The bakery - one woman, one oven, one bike - beat 88 other bakeries to be named National Bakery of the Year at the 2023 National Bakery Awards.
In 2024, Bradbourne Bakery was named in The Sunday Times as a reason to move to Sevenoaks.
About the baker
Annabel grew up in Sevenoaks, and returned again in 2013 with her young family. Along the way she has had a varied career - some of it deliberate and some accidental - being a news reporter at The Scotsman, running a national filmmaking programme for young people, and working in a flea circus. She moonlighted on national live radio, and has been to Number 10 to make breakfast for the Prime Minister. Her first job was at an Edinburgh cinema where she managed to set fire to the popcorn machine.
None of this is much use when it comes to making great bread, but it gives her a lot to think about while baking.
You can follow the bakery’s ongoing story here.