The Tiptree tea room and visitor centre is open seven days a week, closing only for the Christmas break. The tea room offers traditional table service in comfortable surroundings. There’s top quality food with a wide range of Tiptree products. Wherever possible, we source our ingredients from local suppliers and we prepare and cook the food on the premises.
During the summer months, you are welcome to join us in the 'Tiptree Secret Tea Garden' - located just behind the tea room, in the grounds of 'Trewlands', a former farm house of the Wilkin family, is a beautiful walled garden. With its weeping wisteria and traditional English roses we are sure you will enjoy dining with us in a peaceful and relaxing surroundings.
The tea room serves a range of cooked lunches, sandwiches, hot and cold snacks, and home-baked cakes. Try the special: Tiptree Strawberry Conserve with home-made scones and fresh cream, served with the Tiptree tea of your choice.
Almost-forgotten delights. When did you last have a simple jam sandwich? Remember how good it was? If you’d like us to make one specially for you, just ask; and if you don’t like pips, that’s fine we have raspberry seedless conserve and other preserves without pips.
The Tiptree Jam Museum holds the John Wilkin Collection. It is a great place to trace the history of Wilkin & Sons and Tiptree preserves, find out more about village life in Essex, and of course to find out all about jam-making. True, it isn’t the world’s largest museum, but then neither is Tiptree the world’s largest village. Actually, we take that back, it IS Britain’s largest village!
There’s a ten-minute video show to give you a flavour of jam-making – you’ll get a chance to find out what it is that makes Tiptree products special. And there’s a short audio introduction from John Wilkin. ‘Mr John’ as he was known worked with his wife Daphne to create the first Tiptree museum in 1985.The jam shop carries the full range of Tiptree products as well as other local foods, souvenir items and other gifts.
VISIT TIPTREE
We’re easy to find and there’s plenty of parking, with larger than usual spaces. Coach tours and parties are welcome but please give us a call to let us know you will be visiting. To arrange a group visit, please refer to the ‘Contact us’ page of this site.
The Tiptree visitor centre is located in the grounds of the jam factory. Follow the brown signs from the A12 at Kelvedon to Tiptree, head through Tiptree village centre on Church Road, then turn right into the visitor centre 100 yards past the large black gates with WILKIN & SONS over them.
Access: we have facilities for wheelchair users including hard-surfaced parking, toilet, ramps and access to all areas of the visitor centre.
Latest at the Tiptree Tea Room
The Tiptree Bus & Ice Cream Shed Are Here for the Summer!
The sun is shining, and there’s no better time to visit us at the Tiptree Tea Room! We’re excited to say that our Ice Cream Shed is now open for the season and the iconic Tiptree Routemaster Bus has taken up its new permanent home right here in the Tea Room car park.
Strawberry Season is Here – Fresh from the Farm to the Tiptree Jam Shop!
Strawberry season is finally here, and we’re now selling our Tiptree strawberries straight from the farm in the Jam Shop, beautifully fresh and full of flavour, just as they should be!
Summer’s Here: The Tiptree Ice Cream Shed is Open!
We’re absolutely delighted to announce that the new Ice Cream Shed at The Tiptree Tea Room is now open for the summer season, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to welcome you.
