page_title: List of British cheeses
section_title: Hard cheeses
hierarchical_section_title: List of British cheeses / Hard cheeses
caption_attribution_description: English: Swaledale cows milk cheese made in Swaledale, Yorkshire, England and has been awarded Protected Designation of Origin (PDO).
context_page_description: This is a list of cheeses from the United Kingdom. The British Cheese Board states that "there are over 1800 named British cheeses produced in the UK." British cheese has become an important export.
context_section_description: Granular cheese, or hard cheese, refers to a wide variety of cheeses produced by repeatedly stirring and draining a mixture of curd and whey. Some hard cheeses are aged for years.
  Ashdown Foresters –  cow's milk hard cheese made in England with a sweet, nutty flavour.
  Caerphilly –  light-coloured (almost white), crumbly cheese made from cow's milk, with a fat content around 48%. It has a mild taste, accented with slightly sour tang.
  Cheddar –  relatively hard, pale yellow to off-white (unless coloured with additives), and sometimes sharp-tasting. Originating in the English village of Cheddar in Somerset, cheeses of this style are produced in many countries around the world.
  Pilgrims Choice
  Cathedral City Cheddar
  Davidstow Cheddar
  Dorset Drum
  West Country Farmhouse Cheddar (Protected Designation of Origin)
  Applewood
  Cheshire –  dense and crumbly cheese produced in the English county of Cheshire and four neighbouring counties, two in Wales (Denbighshire and Flintshire) and two in England (Shropshire and Staffordshire).
  Appleby Cheshire.
  Cheshire Cheese Company in Macclesfield produces a range of blended Cheshire Cheese since 2010
  Duddleswell –  hard creamy cheese with a nutty flavor.
  Dunlop cheese –  mild 'sweet-milk cheese' from Dunlop in East Ayrshire, Scotland, resembling a soft Cheddar cheese in texture.
  Hereford Hop –  firm cheese with a rind of toasted hops.
  Lancashire –  cow's-milk cheese from the county of Lancashire, in three distinct varieties: young Creamy Lancashire and mature Tasty Lancashire are produced by a traditional method, whereas Crumbly Lancashire (locally known as Lancashire Crumbly ) is a more recent creation suitable for mass production.
  Beacon Fell Traditional Lancashire Cheese (Protected Designation of Origin)
  Lincolnshire Poacher –  hard unpasteurised cow's milk cheese generally made in cylinders, with a rind resembling granite. It is made on Ulceby Farm, in Lincolnshire, England, by craft cheesemaker Richard Tagg.
  Red Leicester –  English cheese made in a similar manner to Cheddar cheese, although it is crumblier. Since the 18th century, it has been coloured orange by adding annatto extract during manufacture.
  Rothbury Red
  Staffordshire (Protected Designation of Origin) –  crumbly white cheese from the county of Staffordshire.
  Sussex Charmer  –  Hard cheese ideal as a Parmesan substitute.
  Swaledale (Protected Designation of Origin) –  full fat hard cheese produced in the town of Richmond in Swaledale, North Yorkshire, England.
  Teviotdale (Protected Geographical Indication) –  produced from the milk of Jersey cattle, although there are no known current producers of this cheese. It is a full fat, hard cheese produced in the area of Teviotdale on the border lands between Scotland and England, within 90 km from the summit of Peel Fell in the Cheviot Hills.
  Y Fenni –  variety of Welsh cheese, consisting of Cheddar cheese blended with mustard seed and ale. It has a firm texture.
  Red Dragon is Y Fenni cheese coated in red wax.
caption: Swaledale cheese
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