Davidstow Cheddar is a brand of

Cheddar cheese Cheddar cheese (or simply cheddar) is a natural cheese that is relatively hard, off-white (or orange if colourings such as annatto are added), and sometimes sharp-tasting. It originates from the English village of Cheddar, Somerset, Cheddar in ...

manufactured by

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, at the

Davidstow Creamery The Davidstow Creamery is a manufacturing plant in Cornwall. It is the largest cheese factory in the UK, and the largest mature cheddar plant in the world. It is the main manufacturing facility for the Cathedral City Cheddar cheese brand. 50% of al ...

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, England, United Kingdom, alongside

Cathedral City Cheddar Cathedral City is a brand of Cheddar cheese which is manufactured by Saputo Dairy UK in Cornwall in the United Kingdom. Cathedral City's brand and logo is based on Wells Cathedral in Somerset. History The original owners of the brand, Mendip F ...

Production

Cheddar cheese has been produced at

Davidstow Davidstow ( (village) or (parish)) is a civil parish and village in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is north of Bodmin Moor straddling the A395 road about north of Camelford. The hamlets of Hallworthy, Hendraburnick, ...

for over 70 years; the plant was set up there in 1951 by

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. Milk is supplied by 300 farms in Cornwall and

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, all within a 50-mile (80 km) radius. The Davidstow plant is the largest in Britain, having been upgraded in 2004, and has the capacity to produce 1,000 tonnes of Davidstow and Cathedral City cheese per week.

Awards

Davidstow won Gold trophies at the International Cheese Awards in Nantwich in 2010 and 2011.

References

External links

Davidstow Cheddar website
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