Derbyshire has an exceptional dairy heritage. Hartington Creamery, tucked away near Pikehall, is the world's smallest Stilton producer, handmaking cheese using methods largely unchanged since the 1870s. The county sits within the PDO-protected zone for Stilton production, placing it alongside Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire as one of only three counties where this cheese can legally be made.
Beyond Stilton, Derbyshire's dairy scene includes artisan soft cheesemakers working beneath the gritstone edges of the Peak District, family cheese businesses with roots stretching back to the 1880s, and farm dairies producing luxury ice cream from their own herds. When your local cheesemaker is under 10 miles away and the supermarket average for dairy is over 350 miles, the choice makes itself.
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