Moira Chippy

The Moira Chippy is the village chip shop for Moira and Norris Hill, the small ex-colliery villages on the Leicestershire-Derbyshire border just south of Swadlincote. It sits on Blackfordby Lane, the road through the village, and runs as a traditional fryer with a wider hot-food list — burgers, kebabs and southern-fried chicken alongside the fish suppers.

The shop is best known locally for its chips, which come out with a distinctive coating — a slightly orange-tinged batter on the chips themselves — that the owner reportedly keeps as a house recipe. It is the kind of detail that splits opinion: Tripadvisor reviews swing both ways, with locals praising "perfectly crispy batter every time" and out-of-town visitors occasionally puzzled by the chip colour. The shop ranks #34 of 76 on Tripadvisor for Swadlincote-area chippies on a 3.9 average across 27 reviews.

It runs an evening-only timetable Sunday through Tuesday and a split lunch-and-evening day Wednesday through Saturday, which is unusual on this side of South Derbyshire and useful for the weekday lunchtime trade from the surrounding industrial units and the National Forest visitor traffic. Closed Sundays during the day; orders are collection-only.