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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 cheesemakers based in the Blackmore Vale South Somerset – best known for Renegade Monk, its multi award winning, organic, ale-washed artisan cheese made with a local cow’s milk.
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Godminster
Godminster, the home of award-winning organic cheddar in the heart of Somerset
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Keens Cheddar
The Keen family have been making Unpasteurised Keens Cheddar since we moved to Moorhayes Farm in 1899. Five generations later we are still here and proud to be 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. We produce cow's milk cheeses at our dairy at Commonwork Organic Farm in Kent(CWOF).
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Lynher Dairies
We are the sole producers of nettle-wrapped Cornish Yarg, Wild Garlic Yarg, Cornish Kern, a Supreme Champion at the World Cheese Awards, and buttery Stithians. Our cheeses are made by hand in open vats from the creamy milk produced by our own herd of Ayrshires and other carefully selected local herds.
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HS Bourne
The Bourne family has been hand-making fine Cheshire cheese since 1750, and since 1930 at the Bank Farm.
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The Torpenhow Farmhouse Dairy
Award-winning cheese, made by hand in our farmhouse dairy using fresh organic milk from our single herd, 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 the county of Leicestershire.
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Lyburn Farmhouse Cheesemakers
Lyburn farm makes a variety of different hand made cheeses for wholesale and our shop, all of which are made from our 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 us 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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Longman’s Cheese Sales
Based in the heart of Somerset, Longman’s are specialists in cheese, dairy and fine food wholesale.
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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, our farmers work in a way that their grandfathers would have recognised, but with the help of modern technology and data – a way that we believe replenishes the earths’ 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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Padstow Cheese Company
Award winning cheese makers! Creators of Cornish Jack, Old Jack, Smoke ‘n’ Jack and 50 Jack. Now home to Little Herbert, ele and Rokke!
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Yorkshire Pecorino Cheese Ltd
Yorkshire Pecorino Cheese Ltd is a small artisan multi award winning cheese makers in Otley near Leeds, West Yorkshire.
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Harvey & Brockless
We are a producer and distributor of speciality foods, working with artisan food producers across the globe. Cheese was our first great passion, but we get just as hot under the collar at the prospect of a slice of local air-dried ham or the fragrant aroma of truffle honey.
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Rowcliffe
Rowcliffe is Britain’s leading importer and distributor of quality cheese and fine foods. We have been serving premium supermarkets and independent retailers since 1967.
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BG Farming Rosedale Goats Cheese
Abbey Farm Cottage a 10 acre small holding nestled at the bottom of Chimney Bank on the edge of the village of Rosedale Abbey in the heart of the North York Moors National Park, the home of Rosedale Goats' Cheese, Raw Goats Drinking Milk and Goat Meat.
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St Andrews Farmhouse Cheese
The Home of Award Winning Cheese. It all begins with the top quality raw milk produced by our home bred herd of Friesian Holstein cows which contentedly graze all summer long amongst the lush pastures overlooking the Firth of Forth in our beautiful corner of the East Neuk of Fife.
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High Weald Dairy
High Weald Dairy are an award winning Sussex cheese maker specialising in artisan cow, sheep and goat milk cheese, all lovingly handmade in UK.
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Alsop & Walker
Cheesemakers based in East Sussex who use milk from a local farmer to make their cheeses, including Lord London and Mayfield.
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Caws Teifi Cheese
Caws Teifi Cheese make award-winning artisan cheeses from locally sourced organic raw milk at Glynhynod Farm in Ceredigion
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Connage Highland Dairy
Connage Highland Dairy is a traditional family-owned, fully organic business, situated on our family farm at Ardersier.
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Buffalicious
Our herd of around 250 water buffalo are only reared on our farm, housed during the cold/wet winters then free to range our lush green grasses of our Somerset countryside during the rest of the year. Buffalicious mozzarella - creamy and delicious , made onsite here at our farm shop in Somerset!
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Northumberland Cheese Company
Mark Robertson began making farmhouse cheeses in the heart of Northumberland in 1984. The Northumberland Cheese story began in the Rede Valley. Mark had a small flock of sheep from which he produced a ewe’s milk cheese called Redesdale. It was a success with the locals and the range expanded to include cow's and goat's milk cheeses.
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Lincolnshire Poacher Cheese
We, Simon and Tim Jones, at Lincolnshire Poacher Cheese, are absolutely committed to producing the very best cheese that we possibly can (with a little help from our 230 Holstein Fresian Cows!) using only our own unpasteurised milk and traditional methods.
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Brooke’s Wye Valley Farm
Brooke’s Wye Valley Dairy Company rests in the rural heart of the Wye Valley in South Wales. We are a family business and have been making artisan ice cream and sorbets on our farm for over two generations. We know that Jersey milk makes great ice cream so in 2017 tried our hand at cheese making with great success and now produce an award winning soft cheeses.
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Pextenement Cheese Company
Established in 2008, the Pextenement Cheese Company aims to produce high quality organic artisan cheeses solely using our own organic milk produced at Pextenement Farm.
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Carron Lodge
We have been farming and producing cheese at Park Head Farm for over 30 years. Within that time period, we have won several awards for our cheese. We recently won Super Gold at the World Cheese Awards for our Inglewhite Buffalo.
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Book & Bucket Cheese Company
The Book and Bucket Cheese Company hand make artisan cheese in the heart of Dorset from sheep and cow's milk. All our milk is sourced locally, collected within 24hrs of being milked and is made into cheese that day
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The Buffalo Farm
I am thrilled to have become Scotland's first and only producer of Buffalo Mozzarella, lovingly made with milk from our own herd of Water Buffalo on our farm here in the Kingdom of Fife.
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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 transform the unpasteurised milk into a range of products, with cheeses to suit every palate.
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