The Ashbourne Gingerbread Shop

Birds the Bakers has a long history in Derbyshire and has become a household name in the region. It is the spiritual home of Ashbourne gingerbread. Local legend is that the recipe for this gingerbread was given to an Ashbourne baker by a French prisoner of war, billeted in Ashbourne during the Napoleonic Wars. There is a shop and a cafe and of course the famous gingerbread is for sale (but alas not using the original recipe).