West Yorkshire has cheese producers with genuinely distinctive stories. Yorkshire Dama Cheese in Sowerby Bridge makes award-winning halloumi-style cheese from 100% British cow milk using traditional Mediterranean methods. It is an inspirational tale of two cultures and has won Great Taste Awards. Yorkshire Fine Cheese in Shelley near Huddersfield is a small independent manufacturer specialising in soft mould-ripened cheese, using milk from their own pure bred Meuse-Rhine-Issel cattle at Bark House Farm.
When your local cheesemaker is under 10 miles away and the supermarket average for dairy is over 350 miles, the quality difference is clear. Browse the dairy and egg producers below to find what is near you.