Cheaney

About Cheaney

Cheaney is a Northamptonshire shoemaker with a long family story. Joseph Cheaney, previously factory manager at B. Riley, set up J. Cheaney, Boot & Shoemakers in Station Road, Desborough in 1886. In 1896 he and his son Arthur moved to the site the factory still occupies. For its first 80 years it made shoes for some of the finest retailers around the world, branded to their requirements, before building its own name. Church's English Shoes bought the business in 1964, and in 2009 Jonathan and William Church took it over. Cheaney won the Queen's Award for Industry in 1966 and the Queen's Award for Enterprise in International Trade in 2016. Today's range includes Chelsea boots such as the Corinthian in waxy commander leather, plus belts, socks, gloves and umbrellas.