UK's 40 'best' fish and chip shops named from Cornwall to Yorkshire and London - full list

Fish and chips is simply a British staple - with scores of radical flocking to their section chippy each week for their fix. And present the UK's best food and spot shops person been revealed.

The apical 40 shortlist includes an array of businesses from crossed the state with the The Takeaway of the Year gong handed retired by the National Federation of Fish Friers (NFFF).

They enactment food and spot shops done challenges, interviews, trial their merchandise knowledge, measure their lawsuit work and different tasks to justice who comes retired connected top.

Experts from the food and chips manufacture justice the restaurants connected these categories earlier announcing the winner.

The afloat database of restaurants that made the apical 40 shortlist is arsenic follows...

Cornwall

Kellaway’s Fish and Chips, Truro

County Durham

Yarm Road Fish and Chips, Darlington

Devon

Taffs Fish and Chips, Torrington

Dorset

The Forum Frier, Blandford Forum

Essex

The Hook of Clacton, Clacton-on-Sea

Greater Manchester

Taylors, Stockport

Hampshire

Mike’s Traditional Fish & Chips, Eastleigh

Kent

Newington Fish Bar, Ramsgate

Lancashire

Farington Chippy, Leyland

Westend Fish and Chips, Oswaldtwistle

Leicestershire

Frydales (Hinckley Road), Leicester

Lincolnshire

Elite connected the Bail, Lincoln

Linfords Traditional Fish and Chips, Market Deeping

London

Brockley’s Rock, Brockley

Stones Fish and Chips, Acton

Norfolk

French’s Fish Shop, Wells-next-the-Sea

Nottinghamshire

Angell’s Fisheries, Newark-on-Trent

Oxfordshire

Harrison’s Fish & Chip Co., Oxford

Somerset

The Oyster Shell, Bath

Surrey

Seafare Guildford

Teesside

Robinsons Traditional Fish and Chips, Billingham

West Midlands

Hawthorn Fish Bar, Birmingham

Yorkshire

The Fish Bank, Sherburn-in-Elmet

Locker’s Fish & Chips, Redcar

Mister C’s, Selby

The Scrap Box, York

Two Gates Fisheries, Barnsley

Scotland

Aberdeenshire

Carron Fish Bar, Stonehaven

Garioch Fish Bar, Inverurie

Lows Traditional Fish & Chips (Berryden), Aberdeen

Mike’s Famous Fish & Chips (Blackburn), Aberdeen

Redcloak Fish Bar, Stonehaven

Sea Salt + Sole, Aberdeen

Ayrshire

The Fish Works, Largs

Fife

The Wee Chippy, Anstruther

Perthshire

McKays Fish & Chip Shop, Pitlochry

Inverness-shire

Hilton Chip Shop, Inverness

Wales

Anglesey

Finney’s Fish and Chips, Benllech

Glamorgan

Posh Fish and Chips (Llandaff), Cardiff

Zero Plus Fish & Chips, Cardiff

President of the NFFF, Andrew Crook, said: “Fish and chips is specified an iconic British staple and it takes immense amounts of accomplishment and hard enactment to not lone cleanable the crockery and different paper offerings but to besides flooded challenges and prolong the concern portion keeping employees motivated and fulfilled.

"There’s a batch to it and each awards play we spot greater depths of talent, expertise and concern acumen and this inclination has continued this year, too.

“Takeaway of the Year is the large one, truthful it goes without saying that the travel it takes contenders connected is precise intense. At each signifier learnings and recommendations are provided to promote the hopefuls to support pushing guardant and that’s wherefore the National Fish & Chip Awards is seen arsenic the contention for spot store owners that privation the further steer to go amended than they were before.

"We’re disconnected to a superb commencement and we’re excited for the adjacent rounds and to honour these deserving people.”

Tickets for the National Fish & Chip Awards are disposable here. More accusation tin beryllium recovered here: www.thefishandchipawards.com.