Menswear
Classic British-Made Men's Shoes and Footwear — Voted by the Community
This directory lists 25 brands that make classic men's shoes in the UK. They are most often based in Northamptonshire and London. Prices run from affordable to luxury. Ranked by community upvotes.

Sanders & Sanders
Sanders & Sanders is a British footwear brand founded in 1873 by brothers William and Thomas Sanders in Northamptonshire. They remain family-owned, producing handcrafted shoes in their original factory.
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Tricker’s
Tricker’s, founded in 1829, is Britain’s oldest shoemaker, crafting high-quality shoes and boots entirely in Northampton using traditional techniques and Goodyear welt construction.
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Cheaney Shoes
Cheaney Shoes is a family-owned British brand making high-quality shoes entirely in Northamptonshire since 1886. They maintain traditional craftsmanship at their original factory.
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Crockett and Jones
Crockett and Jones, founded in 1879 in Northampton, England, is a family-owned British shoemaker specialising in high-quality Goodyear welted footwear with a heritage of craftsmanship.
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Edward Green
Edward Green, founded in 1890 in Northampton, England, is renowned for handcrafted English Goodyear welted shoes made with exceptional craftsmanship and traditional techniques.
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Grenson
Grenson is a British footwear brand founded in 1866, renowned for handmade shoes using traditional craftsmanship and the Goodyear welt method.
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Crown Northampton
Crown Northampton is a British footwear brand established in 1908, known for handmade, made-to-order shoes crafted in their Northampton factory.
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John Lobb
John Lobb is a British bootmaker founded in 1866, renowned for its handmade bespoke footwear crafted with traditional techniques and royal heritage.
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Church’s
Church’s is a British footwear brand founded in 1873 by Thomas Church, known for its traditional shoemaking, expert craftsmanship, and timeless designs made in Northampton.
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Solovair
Solovair is a British footwear brand with a heritage dating back to 1881, renowned for handmade, Goodyear welted shoes crafted in England.
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Barker
Barker, founded in 1880 by Arthur Barker in Earls Barton, England, is a British footwear brand known for its handcrafted shoes and enduring heritage.
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Herring Shoes
Herring Shoes offers expertly crafted footwear through partnerships with renowned Northampton manufacturers, ensuring exceptional British craftsmanship since 1966.
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Ross Oliver
Ross Oliver crafts handmade British footwear using traditional techniques and sustainable cactus leather, blending heritage craftsmanship with modern design.
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Robinsons Shoes
Robinsons Shoes, established in 1954, is a British brand known for its heritage and expertise in quality footwear.
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Blackhorse Lane Ateliers
Blackhorse Lane Ateliers, founded in 2016, is London’s only authentic denim factory producing high-quality selvedge and organic raw denim jeans with a focus on sustainability and free lifetime repairs.
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Hemingsworth
Hemingsworth is a British-made menswear brand founded on a lifetime of travel, offering timeless, versatile garments engineered for the modern globetrotter.
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Bodileys
Bodileys of Northampton is a British shoemaking brand established in 1919, known for its century-long family heritage and traditional craftsmanship in English footwear.
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Percy Stride
Percy Stride crafts handmade men's footwear with British design and manufacture. Goodyear welted shoes challenge convention using innovative colours in a family-run factory.
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Arthur Sleep
Arthur Sleep crafts bespoke luxury footwear, blending British shoemaking heritage with modern innovation and sustainable practices.
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Jadd Shoes
Jadd Shoes, independent English shoemaker founded in 1998. They specialise in stitchdown construction desert shoes and boots, in Suffolk.
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Gaziano & Girling
Gaziano & Girling is a luxury British shoemaker founded in 2006, renowned for combining traditional craftsmanship with modern design.
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George Cleverley
George Cleverley, founded in 1958 in London’s Mayfair, is a British independent shoemaker known for its signature chisel-toed bespoke shoes crafted with over a century of heritage and precision.
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John White Shoes
John White Shoes: British footwear since 1919, known for quality craftsmanship and timeless style. Discover the legacy of a true Northamptonshire brand.
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Lanx
Lanx crafts high-quality footwear blending British heritage with contemporary style. Founded in 2018, Lanx creates handmade shoes, boots, brogues and sneakers for men and women, using traditional techniques and premium materials.
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Ede & Ravenscroft
Ede & Ravenscroft, established in 1689, is London’s oldest tailor, specialising in bespoke tailoring, ceremonial robes, legal attire, and ready-to-wear menswear with traditional British craftsmanship.
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Shops run by brands that make classic men's shoes
19 of the 25 brands that make classic men's shoes have a shop you can visit: 14 in London, others in Northampton, Edinburgh, Cambridge and 15 other towns.
Arthur Sleep, Barker, Blackhorse Lane Ateliersfactory shop, Cheaney Shoes, Church’s, Crockett and Jones and 8 more
Church’sfactory shop, Crockett and Jonesfactory shop, Crown Northamptonfactory shop, Solovair, Tricker’sfactory shop
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Belfast
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Chester
Desborough
Cheaney Shoesfactory shop
Earls Barton
Barkerfactory shop
Exeter
Glasgow
Newcastle upon Tyne
Rendlesham
Jadd Shoesfactory shop
Whalley
Lanxfactory shop
Wollaston
Solovairfactory shop
This independent directory lists UK-made clothing brands, and marks those that make only some items here.Why choose British-made?
A Brief History of British Made Shoes
Britain has a long shoemaking tradition. In London, the cordwainers, as makers of shoes from new leather were known, received their first ordinances in 1272 and a royal charter in 1439. Northampton had a guild of shoemakers by 1401. Northampton's rise owed much to military orders. In 1642 the town's shoemakers made 4,000 pairs of shoes and 600 pairs of boots for the army. By 1841 the census recorded 1,821 shoemakers in Northampton, and the county became one of the world's best-known centres of quality footwear. In the nineteenth century Northampton factories adopted Goodyear welting, a machine method developed in the United States in the 1860s by mechanics working for Charles Goodyear Jr. The welt is stitched to both the upper and the insole, and the outsole is then stitched to the welt, so the shoe can be resoled several times. The brogue grew from the bróg, a rough shoe worn in Ireland and Scotland. The oxford is often linked to Oxford students of the early 1800s, although its origin is uncertain. Contemporary British-made shoes carry on this heritage, combining traditional construction with modern refinements.