Abbeyhorn is one of the oldest and most successful English horn works. It has manufactured animal horn products since it was founded by the Humpherson Family of Bewdley, in 1749. The family maintained ownership for 171 years.

In 1912, Humpherson horn works moved to Gloucester, and around 1920 the works were sold to Mr. Grove, a relative of the Grove family of Halesowen, a center of the horn button industry. In 1923, Grove sold to Percy Leresche who renamed the company "The Abbey Horn Works" after Llanthony Abbey. In 1932, Leresche moved the works to Kendal, Cumbria, and merged the firm with the horn comb works owned by James Troughton and Sons, making Jim Troughton a partner.

In 1955, Abbey Horn Works was sold to Mr. and Mrs. John Barnes, but Percy Leresche continued to work with John Barnes until his death a few years later. The export market expanded and the company name was changed to "Abbey Horn of Kendal Ltd.

In 1980, Paul Cleasby joined the work force as an apprentice horn worker, and in 1991 Cleasby bought the company and moved the works a few miles away to the village of Holme at the old Holme Mills site of Goodacres Carpets. The name was changed to "Abbeyhorn of Lakeland". In 1998, The Scottish horn works called "Horncraft" from Irvine, Ayrshire was bought from the Buyers' Family and combined into "Abbeyhorn".

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Abbeyhorn company website