British Cheese Stories
The British cheese industry is thriving, with huge amounts of passion and expertise producing some exceptional cheeses. We are passionate about supporting and celebrating British cheesemakers so we want to highlight some of our gold, silver and bronze winners from our 2024 awards.
Look these producers up and purchase some of their cheeses. You won’t be disappointed.
Nettlebed Creamery
Farmhouse producers of organic artisan cheese, milk and kefir.
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Feltham’s Farm
A non-traditional organic cheesemaker based in the Blackmore Vale South Somerset – best known for Renegade Monk, its multi-award-winning, organic, ale-washed artisan cheese made with local cow’s milk.
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Godminster
Godminster, the home of award-winning organic cheddar in the heart of Somerset.
Keens Cheddar
The Keen family have been making Unpasteurised Keens Cheddar since moving to Moorhayes Farm in 1899. Five generations later, they are still producing world-famous, award-winning British Cheddar Cheese.
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J.A & E Montgomery Ltd
The Montgomery family have been farming the North & South Cadbury pastures since 1911, when Sir Archibald Langman bought the family farm and started making cheese.
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Blackwoods Cheese Company
Blackwoods Cheese Company produce raw milk soft cow's cheese. They produce cow's milk cheeses at their dairy at Commonwork Organic Farm in Kent.
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Lynher Dairies
Producers of nettle-wrapped Cornish Yarg, Wild Garlic Yarg, Cornish Kern, and buttery Stithians. Their cheeses are made by hand in open vats from the creamy milk of their own herd of Ayrshires and other selected local herds.
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HS Bourne
The Bourne family has been hand-making fine Cheshire cheese since 1750 and at Bank Farm since 1930.
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The Torpenhow Farmhouse Dairy
Award-winning cheese, made by hand in their farmhouse dairy using fresh organic milk from their single herd of pasture-fed cows at Park House Farm, Cumbria.
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Long Clawson Dairy
Long Clawson Dairy is a traditional British cheese producer, based in the small village of Long Clawson in Leicestershire.
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Lyburn Farmhouse Cheesemakers
Lyburn farm makes a variety of different handmade cheeses for wholesale and their shop, all made from their own cows' milk.
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Trethowan’s Dairy Ltd
Family cheesemakers, making and selling handmade, raw milk cheeses. For over 25 years, cheese-making brothers Todd and Maugan have been creating small batch, award-winning traditional cheeses with the help of a small team from their dairy in North Somerset.
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St Helen’s Farm
St Helen’s Farm is family-owned and family-run. For nearly 40 years, Angus and Kathleen have championed all the good goat products can do, growing it into the most successful goat’s milk dairy in the UK.
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Shepherds Purse
Shepherds Purse are a British family company, producing a range of traditional handmade Yorkshire cheeses on their farm using local cow's milk, sheep milk, and water buffalo milk.
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Colston Bassett Dairy
The home of award-winning traditional Blue Stilton and Shropshire Blue cheese.
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White Lake Cheese
Roger is a 3rd generation farmer and cheese-making started way back in the 1930s with his grandfather making a traditional cheddar from the family herd, evolving through the generations to finally become White Lake Cheese in 2004.
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Stichelton Dairy
Stichelton is a raw milk traditional English blue cheese made on the Welbeck Estate in Nottinghamshire by Joe Schneider.
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Wyke Farm
Here in the Somerset village of Wyke Champflower, we’ve been making England’s Cheddar to our secret family recipe for four generations. Crafted the same way for 160 years, with respect for the land and our heritage, Wyke is a slice of England.
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Golden Hooves
Golden Hooves is a celebration of dairy and, more importantly, dairy cows. By focusing on regeneration, their farmers work in a way that their grandfathers would have recognised, but with the help of modern technology and data – a way that replenishes the earth’s soil, increases biodiversity, and locks carbon away.
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Brinkworth Dairy
Our family has farmed at Hill End Farm since 1910 when William Collingborn established our pedigree Friesian herd. Our cows graze on the traditional lush pastures of the Dauntsey Vale for 240 days of the year. The herd is relatively small which means the cows are not stressed.
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Bath Soft Cheese
Award-winning cheese made by hand at Park Farm, Kelston near Bath with milk from our own cows.
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Appleby Creamery
Nestled in the Eden Valley in Cumbria, Appleby Creamery produces a wide range of distinctive and characterful cheeses ranging from soft cheeses, such as blue, brie, and smoked brie, to hard varieties, including cheddar and Caerphilly-style cheeses.
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Botton Creamery, Camphill Village
Making organic cheese is a magical activity, combining art and science, knowledge, and passion. It starts in the fields with the untainted pasture on which our cows graze. Adding only a small amount of starter culture, vegetarian rennet, and salt, the creamery team then transforms the unpasteurised milk into a range of products, with cheeses to suit every palate.
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