Cheese Producers in South-East England
Recommended by Lesley
AbbeyGold
Cheese
abbeygold@aol.com
6 Winter Lane, West Hanney, Nr Wantage, Oxfordshire. OX12 0LF
Tel : 01235 868705
- Vegetarian, Sheep and cows milk cheese. Blue and natural hard cheese.
Leafield, Bull Dog Blue, Bless My Soul and Troo Bloo You.
Rodney’s cheeses are sold in local fine food shops and at local farmers
markets.
Lesley’s favourites : Leafield – rather like Manchego. Troo Bloo You – a
really creamy, delicious blue cheese.
Ashmore Cheese
Lime Tree Cottage, Ashmore,
Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP5 5AQ. Tel : 01747 812337
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Vegetarian, unpasteurised, cows milk cheese. Hard modern British : Ashmore
and Semi-soft : Ashmore Tillingbourne. Pat and David Doble used to make
these delicious cheeses in my part of the world (Surrey) before moving west
Basings
www.basings.co.uk
Lower Basing Farm, Cowden, Kent.
Tel: 01342 850251
- Vegetarian, goat milk cheese from a family run farm. Cheeses : Basings is
a Caerphilly type, unpasteurised cheese. Cottage cheese made from
pasteurised goats cheese.
Basings is a Caerphilly type goat cheese – delicious to cook with.
Crockham
Hill Cheese
VTAGG@POBOX.COM
Hurst Farm, Dairy Lane, Crockham Hill, Kent.TN8 6RA
Tel : 01732 866516
Fax : 0870 134 4238
Hand-made sheep milk cheese, Wensleydale style. Delicious to eat, but hard
to find as only a small amount is made. Contact Victoria for details of
outlets.
Greenacres Farm
Whitesmith, Lewes, East Sussex
Tel: 01825 872380
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vegetarian, goat milk cheese from a family run farm (unpast.) Cheeses :
Golden Cross , Flower Marie , Chabis , Laughton Log.
Alison and Kevin’s cheeses are well known and respected in the trade.
Unfortunately, demand often outstrips supply ! Look out for them in fine
food outlets.
Lesley’s favourite : Golden Cross. An example of a really fine goat cheese –
it cannot be faulted.
High
Weald Dairy
www.highwealddairy.co.uk
Tremains Farm, Horsted Keynes,
Haywards Heath, West Sussex. Tel. 01825 791636
- Hand Made vegetarian, Organic sheep and cows milk cheeses from a family
run farm (past.) Cheeses : Sussex Slipcote with Herbs and Garlic or Peppers,
Tremains, Ashdown Foresters, Duddleswell, Feta, Halloumi, Pecorino, Ricotta.
Mark and Sarah supply many fine food outlets and sell at local farmers
markets. Look out for their cheese in health food shops. Lesley’s favourites
: Pecorino, Slipcote and Feta.
Lyburn
Farmhouse Cheese
www.lyburncheese.co.uk
Lyburn Farm, Landford, Salisbury. SP5
2DN.
Tel: 01794 390451
- Hand made vegetarian, cows milk from a family run farm (past.) Cheeses :
Lyburn Gold, Nettle and Garlic, Mediterranean, Smoked, Cumin and Winchester.
Gouda shaped moulded cheese – great flavour. Mike and Judy supply many fine
food shops and sell at local farmers markets. Lesley’s favourites :
Winchester and Nettle with Garlic.
Norbury
Park Farm
Mickleham, Surrey.
Tel: 01372 377842
- Hand made vegetarian, blue veined semi soft cows milk cheese,
unpasteurised , called Norbury Blue.
Michaela started making her blue cheese in 2002 and it has since gained a
very good reputation. The cheese is sold in fine food shops and at local
farmers markets.
Lesley recommends this to all blue cheese lovers. It has a good creamy
texture, lovely flavour, and Michaela now manages to make them all
blue-veined (a bit of a problem to start with!)
Nut Knowle Farm
lj@nutknowlefarm.com
Jenny Jenner, Worlds End, Gun
Hill,Horam, East Sussex. TN21 OLA
Tel : 01825 872214 Fax : 01825 873055
- Hand made vegetarian, goat milk cheese from a family run farm (past)
Cheeses : St George, Sussex Yeoman, Little Garlic, Wealdway, Gun Hill, Ash
Pyramid, and Wealden.
Lyn and Jenny supply fine food outlets and sell at local farmers markets.
Lesley’s favourites : Little Garlic (great for cooking with – a little
cheese with big ideas!) and Wealdway with Chillies.
Old Plaw Hatch Farm
oldplawhatchfarm@hotmail.com
Sharpthorne, West Sussex
Tel: 01342
810652
- Hand made organic,vegetarian cows cheese from a biodynamic farm (unpast.)
Cheeses : Sussex Dewpond , Sussex Cheddar + soft fresh cheeses with herbs.
Mark Hardy (High Weald Dairy) does distribute some of these delicious
cheeses, but you really need to visit their farm shop at the farm. It is
open seven days a week and has a brilliant range of organic vegetables, meat
and dairy products. You can also see the animals and chat to well informed
enthusiastic staff about their farming methods.
Lesley’s favourites : Mature cheddar and Sussex Dewpond with green peppers.
Rosary Goats Cheese.
chris-moody@supanet.com
The Rosary, Landford, Wiltshire, SP5 2BB Tel.01794
322196
- Hand made vegetarian, fresh goats cheese (pasteurised). Plain or with
herbs/ash/peppers
Tenterden
Cheese Makers
www.tenterdencheese.co.uk
Forstal Farm,Tenterden,Kent.
Tel: 01580 765111 Fax : 01580 76584
- Vegetarian, Guernsey cows milk cheese from a family run farm .
Helen and Bruce are developing totally new cheeses, so watch this space !
Traditional Cheese Dairy
clifforddyball@traditionalcheesedairy.freeserve.co.uk
Cliff and Julie Dyball, The Old Factory
Buildings, Stonegate, East Sussex. TN5 7DU
Tel: 01580 201610 Fax : 01580
201530
- Hand made vegetarian, sheep, goat and cows milk cheeses (unpast.)
Cheeses : Lord of the Hundreds , Old Sussex , Goodwood , Scrumpy Sussex ,
Stonegate.
Julie and Cliff’s cheeses are to be found in fine food outlets and some
Waitrose stores.
Lesley’s favourites : Old Sussex (a very old favourite, with its
well-rounded flavour) and Stonegate(a really fresh contrast to Old Sussex)
Twineham
Grange Farms Ltd
rob@tgfonline.co.uk &
www.tgfonline.com
Bob Lane, Twineham, Nr Haywards Heath,
West Sussex. RH17 5NH
Tel : 01444 881394 Fax : 01444 881976
- Hand made Italian style, unpast. Vegetarian, cows milk cheese.
This delicious cheese can be bought in fine food shops, at farmers markets
and in some Sainsbury outlets.
Lesley thoroughly recommends this one !
Two Hoots Farmhouse Cheese
twohoots.fc@btinternet.com
Feathercot School Road,
Barkham, Nr Wokingham, Berkshire. RG41 4TP Tel : 01189 760401
- Hand
made vegetarian, pasteurised blue cheeses.
Sandy Rose produces delicious, award winning
hand made soft blue cheeses : Barkham Blue, Barkham Chase and Loddon Blewe.
Village Maid
Village.maid@ntlworld.com
The
Cottage, Basingstoke Road, Risely, Reading, Berkshire. RG7 1QD Tel : 01189
884564
- Hand
made vegetarian, unpasteurised cheeses.
Anne Wigmore makes three different cheeses.
Waterloo is a soft white cows cheese, made using the coulommiers method.
Spenwood is a hard, sheeps cheese, while although Wigmore is also a sheeps
milk cheese, it is semi-soft.
