Wensleydale Creamery

General information

The Wensleydale Creamery in Hawes is the home of Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese. It uses traditional methods to handcraft cheese to time-honoured recipes, using milk from local farms as well as being innovative with the development of new recipes. The business supplies a broad range of customers including major multiple retailers, exporters, wholesalers and the food service sector.

Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese is now protected! The Wensleydale Creamery has been successful in achieving Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) by the European Commission for it's Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese. Achieving PGI status means ensures no other cheese-maker outside of the designated area can produce a cheese and call it Yorkshire Wensleydale.

Yorkshire Wensleydale has a historic pedigree with it first being made in the Yorkshire Dales in 1150 by Cistercian monks.

In 1995 The Wensleydale Creamery was the first to launch Yorkshire Wensleydale & Cranberries, which has now become one of its best sellers and has firmly become established as a ‘core’ cheese in the blended cheese category.