English Cheese Selection

Made in Nottinghamshire, the Colston Bassett is the finest Stilton you can buy! It has a complex flavour, sweet and creamy at first before developing a long grassy piquant tang but never sharp or harsh; more mellow and fruity. It can only be made in six dairies in the counties of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and Leicestershire. Stilton takes its name from the town of Stilton, where it was first traded at the Bell Inn in the early 18^th Century – but it cannot be made there!

*Please note that over Christmas period, this item might be replaced with Cropwell Bishop Waxed Stilton*

Appleby's Cheshire is the UK's oldest cheese on record, first appearing in the Doomsday Book in 1086, by order of William the Conqueror and is the only unpasteurised Cheshire still produced in the UK. It is pale orange in colour with a moist and crumbly texture, the flavour is clean and zesty on the tongue followed by a rich mouth-watering finish, with mineral-ish grassy undertones. Perfect on a cheeseboard or as part of a ploughman's lunch on a warm sunny day!

Single Gloucester cheese handmade by Jonathan Crump.A hard, yet moist cheese with a gentle milky taste, delicate on the palate. Cow's, Pasteurised, Organic, Vegetarian.

Mrs Ruth Kirkham is a third-generation cheesemaker and began making Lancashire Cheese as Beesley Farm over 30 years ago. In the early days Ruth and husband John started the day with the first milking of their herd of 40 Holstein Friesian cows. The milk was pumped straight into a small vat in their little dairy next door. This was then turned into cheese. The meadows on which the cows graze have an abundance of wild flowers and herbs such as meadowsweet, dandelion and clover which all assist the acidity levels in the milk. They also encourage the development of the cheese’s flavour and texture. Also available smoked, Ruth’s son Graham also smokes the traditional Lancashire Cheese over oak and beech chippings to give the cheese a smooth, smoky flavour, which is not too overpowering, and retains its delicate crumbly texture.