List of English cheeses

Cheddar cheese with crackers

This is a list of notable cheeses in English cuisine. Some sources claim that at least 927 varieties of cheese are produced in England.[1] Fourteen English cheeses are classified as protected designation of origin.[1]

In English cuisine, foods such as cheese have ancient origins. The 14th-century English cookery book The Forme of Cury[a] contains recipes for these, and dates from the royal court of Richard II.

English cheeses

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2016)
A wedge of Bowland cheese
Derby cheese varieties include Sage Derby, shown with a wax coating.
Smoked Lincolnshire Poacher cheese
Shropshire Blue
  • Applewood cheese – Type of smoke-flavoured cheese
  • Ashdown Foresters – Type of cheese
  • Bath Blue
  • Bath Soft Cheese – Soft cheese made in Bath
  • Beacon Fell Traditional Lancashire Cheese – Protected designation of origin UK cheese
  • Beenleigh Blue cheese – Soft blue cheese
  • Berkswell – Type of British cheese
  • Blue Stilton – English type of cheesePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets[1]
  • Black Bomber
  • Bowland cheese
  • Brighton Blue – Blue cheese made in Sussex, England
  • Buxton Blue – British cheese
  • Cheddar – Type of relatively hard English cheese
  • Cheshire – Cheese from Cheshire, England
  • Chevington
  • Colwick – Village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England
  • Coquetdale – English type of cheese
  • Cornish Blue – British cheese
  • Cornish Brie – Type of British cheese from Cornwall, England
  • Cornish Yarg – Cornish semi-hard cheese
  • Coverdale, named after the valley of that name in the Yorkshire Dales
  • Croglin – village in Cumbria, England, UKPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
  • Davidstow Cheddar – Brand of Cheddar cheese
  • Derby
  • Dorset Blue Vinney – British blue cow's milk cheese
  • Dorset Drum
  • Dovedale cheese – British blue cheese from the Peak District
  • Duddleswell cheese
  • Fine Fettle Yorkshire – British cheese similar to feta
  • Gevrik
  • Gloucester – English semi-hard cheese
  • Harbourne Blue – Brand of British goat cheese
  • Hereford Hop – English cheese
  • Keltic Gold – Semi-hard cheese from Cornwall, UK
  • Lancashire – English cheesePages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback[2]
  • Lincolnshire Poacher cheese – English hard cheese
  • Little Derby – English cheese
  • Lymeswold cheese – A soft, blue English cheese that is no longer producedPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
  • Marble cheese – Cheese type characterized by streaks of different colors
  • Merry Wyfe (Bath)
  • Norbury Blue – English blue cheese made on Norbury Park farmPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
  • Old Winchester
  • Oxford Blue (cheese) – Blue cheese produced in Oxfordshire, England
  • Parlick Fell cheese – Sheep's milk cheese from Lancashire, England
  • Red Leicester – English hard cheese similar to Cheddar[2]
  • Red Windsor – Semi-hard English cheesePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
  • Renegade Monk – Artisan blue cheese made in England
  • Sage Derby – cheesePages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallbackPages displaying short descriptions with no spaces[2]
  • Shropshire Blue – Scottish cheese
  • Stichelton – Variety of Stilton cheese using unpasteurized milk
  • Stilton – English type of cheese
    • Blue Stilton
    • White Stilton
  • Stinking Bishop – English semi-soft cheesePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
  • St James Cheese
  • Suffolk Gold – Semi-soft cheese
  • Suffolk Bang – type of cheese produced from skimmed milk in Suffolk, England, UKPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
  • Sussex Slipcote
  • Swaledale – English hard cheese made in North Yorkshire
  • Tesyn – Cheeses made from goat milkPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
  • Waterloo cheese – English semi-soft cheese
  • Wensleydale – English cheese[1]
  • Wyfe of Bath (Bath)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Cury here means cooking, related to French cuire, to cook.

References

  1. ^ a b c d Fodor's Travel Publications, I.; Andrews, R.; Cannon, P.; Honnor, J.; Hughes, K.; Jewers, J. (2012). England 2013: With the Best of Wales. Fodor's England. Fodor's Travel Publications. p. 700. ISBN 978-0-307-92947-1.
  2. ^ a b c Harbutt, J. (2015). World Cheese Book. DK Publishing. pp. 182–205. ISBN 978-1-4654-4372-4. Retrieved February 2, 2016.

Further reading

  • Fraser, S. (1960). The Cheeses of Old England. Abelard-Schuman.
  • Squire, John, ed. (2018). Cheddar Gorge: A Book of English Cheeses (Reprint of 1937 ed.). London: HarperCollins. ISBN 9780008314293.

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