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English Cheese Foodways

Specialised

CHEDDAR, from Somerset, and the most imitated cheese in the world — ⚠ the NAME IS NOT PROTECTED, so most "cheddar" is industrial and made anywhere; only West Country Farmhouse Cheddar holds a designation. STILTON, blue, protected, and legally unmakeable in Stilton itself. WENSLEYDALE, LANCASHIRE, CHESHIRE — possibly the oldest named English cheese — Red Leicester, Double and Single Gloucester, Sage Derby, Caerphilly (⚠ Welsh in origin, much made in England). Plus a farmhouse revival since the 1980s: Stichelton, Kirkham’s, Montgomery’s, Tunworth.

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Communities and languages

Languages: English

What is recorded

  • The name "cheddar" is not protected and most cheddar is made outside Somerset and outside England; only West Country Farmhouse Cheddar holds a protected designation. Stilton is protected and may be made only in Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire — not in the Cambridgeshire village of Stilton that gave it its name. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Welsh Foodways documented

    Caerphilly is Welsh in origin though much made in England.

Recorded as relating to this foodway

  • related to Welsh Dairy and Cheese documented

    ⚠ Caerphilly is Welsh in origin and was long made in England as well; the English cheese system records the same fact from the other side.

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