Collection: British Cheese

Supple and savoury, and melts brilliantly. A cheese was named ‘shield’ after an ancient bronze shield was unearthed near the farm. It was renamed ‘Ogleshield’ after Bill Oglethorpe suggested washing the rind, so creating a British take on Raclette.

Crumbly, with a little acidity. Cheshire is one of Britain’s oldest cheeses, but production almost stopped entirely after WW2. Lucy Appleby brought the cheese back in the 1950s, and it remains the only exclusively raw milk Cheshire.

Creamy yellow, with a rich, buttery-crumble texture. A truly old-fashioned Lancashire made traditionally with a two-day curd recipe. (Curd from a second day’s milk is added to that from the first, to produce a more complex flavour.)

Rounded and smooth, rich and buttery, with a refreshing acidity. Made in a micro-dairy in the town of Wensley, this is England’s only raw milk Wensleydale that is actually made in Wensleydale.

Nutty and mellow in flavour, and flaky in texture. Bound in cloth, and ripened for six months on beechwood shelves, this is the only hand-made raw milk Red Leicester. (The traditional orange-red colour is annatto, derived from the seeds of the achiote tree.)

Single cream and light vegetal notes. In 2014, Bath Blue was judged ‘Supreme Champion’ at the World Cheese Awards. The competition was fierce, with 2,600 cheeses from 33 countries vying for the top spot, but none could beat this brilliant blue.

Buttery and earthy. This organic Welsh cheese is made by the Holden family from their own Ayrshire herd; and ‘Hafod’ is the Welsh word referring to the traditional changing of pastures for livestock between summer and winter. * Typically made with raw milk but may occasionally be made with pasteurised milk. Your piece of cheese will be clearly labelled.

Intensely rich and creamy, with a sweet caramel and deep umami flavour. An unabashed, unashamed and unadulterated attempt to recreate the British blues of yore, made to an historic recipe and with raw milk. Not a Stilton, but impressive nonetheless.

Sharp and fruity. Jane Stewart’s herd of Friesian Holsteins graze outside near the coast of Fife, braving the chill blasts from the North Sea., A fruity, sharp and tangy farmhouse Cheddar, made by Jane Stewart, near the shores of the Firth of Forth on the eastern edge of Scotland.

Soft and spreadable texture, and mellow flavour. A different style of blue cheese created by the current generation of the Skailes family, master Stilton makers for 160 years.

A soft caramel colour, and a creamy and nutty flavour. Hand-made close to us with milk from the farm’s herd and originally named Beauty of Bath. We suggested ‘Wyfe of Bath’ because, in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wyfe had an insatiable appetite for pleasure.

Rich and heady. Jonny Crickmore combines his cultured double cream with Tartuflanghe summer truffle cream from The Fine Cheese Co. and places them in the centre of a Baron Bigod