8 cheeses

Lancashire, England

Made by blending two or three days’ curd — a technique nobody else uses.

West Midlands, England

Britain’s best sheep’s-milk cheese, moulded in kitchen colanders.

Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire, England

England’s protected blue — and it cannot legally be made in Stilton.

Cornwall, England

Wrapped in nettles, and named after the Grays — backwards.

Leicestershire, England

Cheddar-adjacent, dyed with annatto since farmers wanted their milk to look richer.

Nottinghamshire, England

A raw-milk Stilton in all but name — the name is the one thing it cannot have.

Somerset, Dorset, Devon & Cornwall, England

The real thing: cloth-bound, cave-aged, and nothing like a plastic block.

North Yorkshire, England

Cistercian in origin, saved from closure in the 1990s by a cartoon.