Wensleydale Creamery

The Yorkshire Dales Cheese Festival returns from 9 to 18 October 2026, with creamery demonstrations, farm-shop tastings and a cheeseboard served 40ft above a limestone gorge. Fancy a cheeseboard 40ft above a gorge? That is...

French Cistercian monks brought a cheese recipe to Wensleydale in the 12th century. Nearly 900 years later, it's still made in the same dale, and the abbey that started it is a ruin nobody...