Sigh...

I wish people would get their facts right when it comes to these important topics:-)

There has been a creamery at Hartington for over 130 years, producing the highest quality British Cheese. Indeed Hartington is the site of one of only very few creameries in the world which can legally produce the King of Cheeses: Stilton.

Stilton carries the equivalent of 'appellation controlee' and can be made only in the shires of Leicester, Nottingham and Derby.

A cheese-making dairy was originally opened on the site of the present Creamery in 1876 by the Duke of Devonshire. It struggled as a business venture and closed in 1895. But in 1900 Thomas Nuttall of Beeby in Leicestershire bought the building to start making Stilton cheese.

So Stilton IS made in Derbyshire!

For this and other facinationg cheese facts check out this site.

Cheers (or is it cheese?)

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