Stilton

All good stuff, except that Stilton is in Cambridgeshire (and used to be in Huntingdonshire when it was a county).

Archive 2008-12-01 2008

All good stuff, except that Stilton is in Cambridgeshire (and used to be in Huntingdonshire when it was a county).

A visit to pork pie country 2008

[Stilton] is created from cow's milk from a restricted list of creameries in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, but gets its name from the Cambridgeshire town, 80 miles north of London on the A1 where it was traditionally sold to resting travellers.

Leicestershire food: Now the bad news 2005

[Stilton] is created from cow's milk from a restricted list of creameries in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, but gets its name from the Cambridgeshire town, 80 miles north of London on the A1 where it was traditionally sold to resting travellers.

Archive 2005-12-01 2005

Incidentally, the place with the best claim to being the birthplace of Stilton is Quenby Hall in, of course, Leicestershire.

Archive 2005-12-01 2005

Incidentally, the place with the best claim to being the birthplace of Stilton is Quenby Hall in, of course, Leicestershire.

Leicestershire food: Now the bad news 2005

The name Stilton has been associated with cheese since at least the early 18th century and today over one million Stiltons are produced every year.

unknown title 2009

Consider the cheese of Stilton, which is not made there, and of Cheddar, which is.

First and Last Hilaire Belloc 1911

"It will be ready – Mr. Stilton is getting it ready."

Melbourne House 1907

In the palmy days of coaching the "Angel" had stabling for three hundred horses, and it was kept by Mistress Worthington, at whose door the famous cheeses were sold and hence called Stilton, though they were made in distant farmsteads and villages.

Vanishing England 1892