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21/10/2019
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Yorkshire Post Rural Awards 2019 Winners

We’re absolutely thrilled to announce we are the winners of The Yorkshire Post’s Rural High Street and Rural Retailer Award & Rural Tourist Attraction Award for 2019! The Yorkshire Post Rural Awards is a celebration of the vital role the rural and agricultural community play across the county. In Yorkshire, we’re blessed with some of the best countryside and the awards recognise the dedicated individuals, organisations and businesses who are the beating heart of Yorkshire’s proud countryside. These awards are the benchmark of perfection across Yorkshire’s rural community – they... Read More

16/08/2019
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Creamery Growth and Modernisation Project

Work will be commencing in September 2019 to aid with the modernisation of the Wensleydale Creamery at Hawes to include milk standardisation, curd handling improvements, cheese smoking plant and water recycling plant. It is part-funded by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development.

15/07/2019

A tribute to long-serving North Yorkshire councillor John Blackie from Managing Director, David Hartley.

On behalf of myself and Wensleydale Creamery, it is with great sadness that we learned of John Blackie’s passing this weekend. I first met John in 1992 around the time of the closure of Wensleydale Creamery and John became a local leader in the ‘Save the Creamery’ campaign. He lobbied media, MP’s, Local Government and together with colleagues, supporters and the Community, raised the profile of a small business closure in a ‘deeply rural environment’, to national status. The pressure and momentum gained through this campaign did indeed contribute significantly... Read More

17/06/2019
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Producing Energy From Cheese

We’re thrilled to share this exciting story with you which we’re very proud to be involved in. Our passion for cheese-making is now helping to heat homes in the area thanks to the conversion of our leftover whey (which is a fantastically versatile by-product of cheese-making) and love of our environment & landscape that has brought about an exciting renewable-energy initiative! Read the news story below! We recently Iona Capital, the specialist environmental fund manager, has secured a deal with the Wensleydale Creamery to produce over 10,000 MWh of energy... Read More

29/05/2019
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We’re celebrating 25 years at our Visitor Centre!

We’re marking the 25th Anniversary of our popular Visitor Centre with the launch of our brand-new interactive Demonstration Room, the latest development in an ongoing investment programme which has seen over £5million invested across the whole cheese-making business in the last 5 years. We have continually invested in our Visitor Experience since it first opened in 1994. The new Demonstration Room is the most recent addition, complete with a fully equipped kitchen and tasting area, with technology for streaming demonstration footage, film and audio clips. Visitors are taken on a... Read More

22/05/2019
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We’re proud to support The Dales Festival of Food and Drink 2019 for a fourth year!

We’re excited to be supporting and joining The Dales Festival of Food and Drink on June 15th – 16th and can’t wait for a weekend of celebrating local produce, sampling our cheese and celebrating all Yorkshire has to offer! We’ll be selling and sampling our award-winning cheese as well hosting cheese-making demonstations! Join one of our cheese-experts as they turn eight pints of Wensleydale milk into a 500g Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese and learn all about our 1000 year history! Enjoy Cookery Demonstrations by Top Dales Chefs, amazing live music from... Read More

17/05/2019
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Our Cheese Road Show

We love to get out and about and sample our award-winning cheese! With a few dates in the pipeline, we thought we’d share our activity so you can keep up to date with our whereabouts…and plan your very own cheese road show (if you wish!) Saturday 15th June – Sunday 16th June – Dales Festival of Food and Drink, Leyburn Tuesday 9th – Thursday 11th July – The Cheese & Dairy Hall, The Great Yorkshire Show, Harrogate Wednesday 31st July – The Nantwich Show, Dorfold Hall, Nantwich Saturday 14th September... Read More

27/02/2019

5 ways to beat SAD season with cheese!

We’re firm believers that nothing can comfort you, cheer you up or distract you from the woes of the world the way cheese can. We don’t mind the long dark nights on the run up to Christmas…because we’ve got Chris Rea singing ‘Driving home for Christmas’ blasting in the car and we know it’s acceptable to have a hot toddy every night after work! However, the wind-down is difficult. January to March are a hard few months…dark mornings & dark nights…counting down the days until the clocks ‘Spring’ forward and... Read More

20/12/2018
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We’ve had a ‘grate’ 2018

There’s no denying that we have enjoyed every second of 2018. From launching fantastic new products such as Yorkshire Brie and Yorkshire Cheddar, to being part of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and seeing the Welcome To Yorkshire ‘Wensleydale Garden’ win Gold, to becoming the star of the show on BBC2 and Channel 5 programmes. 2018 has been a great year for the Wensleydale Creamery. Not forgetting to mention the successful year of awards, with a tally of nearly 90 for our cheese, butter and yogurt in national and international... Read More

05/12/2018
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Yorkshire’s Own Wensleydale on TV Screens Nationwide

The Wensleydale Creamery, located in the market town of Hawes in Wensleydale, in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales, is to feature on BBC TWO programme ‘Made in Great Britain’ on Friday, 7th December at 9pm. Hosted by Steph McGovern, the episode arrives in Wensleydale, home of the much-loved Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese, to discover its historic story. The ‘makers’ are guided through the ages, to discover how Wensleydale cheese-making has changed since the monastic times, through to modern day cheese-making at the Wensleydale Creamery. As the ‘makers’ have a go... Read More