Translations:List of cheeses/73/en
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| Name | Image | Region | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banbury cheese | 
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Banbury, Oxfordshire, England | Once one of Banbury's most prestigious exports, and nationally famous, its production went into decline by the 18th-century, and eventually ceased. The cheese is best known today through an insult in Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor (1597). Pictured is a 15th/16th-century recipe for Banbury cheese. |
| Cheddar cheese | 
|
Cheddar, Somerset | The UK's most famous cheese, and one of the most popular. |
| Stilton Cheese | 
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Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire | Stilton is produced in two varieties: Blue, which has had Penicillium roqueforti added to generate a characteristic smell and taste, and White, which has not. |
| Stinking Bishop Cheese | 
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Dymock, Gloucestershire | Perhaps the UK's most notorious cheese, known for its distinctive odour. |