A popular coffee chain is opening 14 new stores in London over the course of the next five years as part of a major expansion.

Black Sheep Coffee will soon have a presence in every London borough, with new stores opening in Sutton, Croydon, Lewisham, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Haringey and Enfield, among other locations.

Elsewhere in IEast and West Sussex, Black Sheep Coffee will set up a minimum of 12 new stores with franchise partners, as well as 13 additional stores across Bristol, Somerset, Gloucestershire and Hertfordshire.

Black Sheep Coffee, which originally started in Camden, was founded in 2013 by former flatmates Gabriel Shohet and Eirik Holth.

Their mission was to "rid the world of boring, average tasting coffee" and challenge the corporate giants.

After formulating the idea, the pair quit their corporate jobs on the exact same day to build the brand from scratch.

Now, their focus is to build on their success by setting up shop in locations with high footfall, including high streets, retail parks and shopping centres.

Gabriel Shohet and Eirik Holth, Co-Founders of Black Sheep Coffee, said: "We’re thrilled to double down in London where our journey started, and to bring Black Sheep to many exciting new markets across Southern England.

None of this would be possible without our exceptional franchise partners who live and breathe Black Sheep and deliver our distinctive products and customer experience in their communities."

Black Sheep Coffee shops currently exist at the following locations: