Barbour
Read Barbour's story, in their own words.
Wanted: how your things are made
If you make what you sell, we would like to show it. Send us a link to photographs or film of your workshop, your process, your hands at work, and we will put it on this page, credited to you, with a link back to wherever it lives.
We are not after marketing shots. A phone video of a lathe or a stitching bench tells a visitor more than a styled product photo ever will.
Anything you send stays yours. We host nothing ourselves without asking: we link to your own film and your own pictures, and we will take it down the day you want it down.
Trading as J.BARBOUR & SONS,LIMITED, registered at Companies House number 00124201.
What we have checked
Every brand here has to clear one test before it is listed at all: the company is a UK legal entity with real activity here. That is a question about the business, and it is deliberately not the same question as where any individual product is made.
- uk registered entity: Companies House record resolves, status active. Source, checked 2026-08-29.
- uk site: Stated by the company: "Barbour moved into a new factory in Simonside, South Shields where the company remains to the present day." Source, checked 2026-08-31.
- uk employment: Stated by the company: "Barbour's headquarters, located in Simonside, South Shields is also home to the factory where Barbour's iconic Bedale and Beaufort wax jackets are still manufactured by hand and where customer services lovingly re-wax, repair and Re-Love wax jackets and mend quilts by hand enabling customers to extend the lives of their jackets." Source, checked 2026-08-31.
- uk control: No majority shareholding traced outside the UK; controlled by Dame Margaret Barbour. Source, checked 2026-09-01.
We have only checked company registration so far. Evidence of UK employment or a UK site is the next thing we intend to gather, and until we have it we say so on every product rather than implying it.
What they make
5 products listed. 5 don't say where they are made, so neither do we.
- Ashby Waxed JacketBarbour£269
- Classic Beadnell® Waxed JacketBarbour£269
- Classic Bedale® Waxed JacketBarbour£299
- International Original Waxed JacketBarbour£299
- Classic Beaufort® Waxed JacketBarbour£319
