Duchy of Cornwall Oysters

Appears in
Hix Oyster & Chop House

By Mark Hix

Published 2010

  • About

For a city lawyer and a music producer, the Wright Brothers - Ben Wright and Robin Hancock - have done pretty well supplying oysters from France, the UK and Ireland to many of London’s top restaurants, and acquiring the Duchy of Cornwall oyster farm on the Helford river.

The Duchy is one of very few private oyster fisheries left in this country. Port Navas Creek, where the Duchy oysterage joins the Helford river, is HQ and the oysters are sorted, graded and purified under Ben’s watchful eye, ready to be transported to London and France.