Welcome
The web site of welshmeatdirect.co.uk (Welsh Meat Direct) is run by Dolithon Meats. We supply quality mail order Welsh lamb and quality mail order Welsh beef; online Welsh meat supplies (Welsh lamb and Welsh Beef), delivered to you conveniently packaged ready for the freezer. All our products are home reared and farm assured livestock. What you give your family to eat is important to you, and it's important to us too. We are proud of the care that is put into producing our animals. All are fattened on sweet Welsh grass, sileage or hay, and rolled barley is used as a supplement with no artificial growth aids used.

Rachael and Philip Layton are a couple with three young children and two older children living in Dolau, a small village outside the Victorian Spa town of Llandrindod Wells.

Philip and his brothers Len and Colin have farmed their traditional family hill farm since they were 16, the farm ahs been in their family for four generations, but over the past 15 years they have bought neighbouring land and increased the size of the original farm by over 100%.

Rachael, originally from Leek in Staffordshire, had a high profile job in retail and marketing. She is now a qualified play worker and dance teacher, and has played an active role in supporting her local community over the past 10 years, helping to raise over £150,000 in grants and funding for local projects. She is a member of the W.I., her children’s school PTA, and the Out of School Club committee; she is also chairperson of Llandovery farmers market. Currently she is studying for her NVQ level 4 in Management

Their farm is made up of several smaller farms, which have been bought by their family over the past forty years, including Blaen-y-Cwm Mawr, Nantleach, Little Park, Brynlefrith, Blaen-y-Cwm, and the most recent farm purchase of Caergynant. They farm in a traditional style, amongst the rolling Radnorshire hills, where their pedigree Welsh Black herd and variety of Welsh Sheep graze against the gentle flowing River Ithon.

During the foot and mouth year of 2001 they realised that they had to find a way of obtaining a better price for their fat stock if they were to be able to pass on the family farm to the next generation, their children Hannah now aged 9, James aged 7, and Jessica aged 6. Philip was convinced that their pedigree Welsh Black Beef with full traceabilty and full herd health Status would fetch a reasonable retail price if they could take their own stock from fat to the final customer, he also wanted the customer to have the experience of eating full flavoured mature beef, and therefore to benefit from the natural feeding, and the long hanging of the carcass, and so Dolithon Meats were born, a phoenix rising from the ashes of the foot and mouth crisis.

Rachael’s and Philip’s motto is “we care for the food you eat so you don’t have to worry about what you’re eating”, and thus they provide their customers with beef and lamb born and bred on the farm, with 100% traceabilty, with the addition of being members of the FAWL scheme and having full herd health status from the Welsh Black Society, and their farm being members of the ESA, and environment scheme, whereby the farm pledges to structure their farming around proven environmental strategies. Their ethos includes no overuse of antibiotics, use of homeopathic remedies, as little use of chemicals as possible and only a small amount of fertiliser used on their fields, some of which are 1000ft above sea level, contacting with pure air, as little transport ventures up into our hills and small lanes. Business is conducted so that the customer, the environment, nature, and of course their beautiful home is not exploited in any way.

Many customers travel to Nantleach, where the butcher’s facility is situated, as they begin the assent from our high ground down into the dingle where the shop is the view is spectacularly breathtaking. We welcome visitors and some venture into our sheds to see our cattle or sheep when we are lambing, we are proud that people can see that we genuinely care for our animals and ultimately for the food you eat. If you live a long way from us, feel free to become part of the Dolithon family by sharing our regular news spot, and ordering your traditional Welsh Lamb and Beef from us.

Ordering has never been easier, just follow the links and from the comfort of your own home you can experience the delicious taste of Dolithon Meats, with FREE next day delivery, throughout the UK, there has never been a better time to try a little bit of Wales.

Delivery is arranged to suit you. The meat leaves the farm is specialist packaging developed to withstand the travelling process and to ensure your meat arrives in the same first class condition that it leaves the farm in, and at a regulated temperature.

Philip supervises all of our butchery services. Under his watchful eye we have a team of two part time butchers, Julia, and Andy, both currently studying for their NVQ’s in butchery. Our Welsh Black Beef is hung for a minimum of three weeks, our lambs for one week. Great pride is taken within the premises and all staff have food hygiene certificates, and are working towards qualifications, and Philip holds a certificate for HACCP.

If you have any queries regarding anything please do not hesitate to call and have a chat.