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Image
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Region
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Description
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| Banbury cheese
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Banbury, Oxfordshire, England
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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.
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| Cheddar cheese
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Cheddar, Somerset
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The UK's most famous cheese, and one of the most popular.
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| Stilton Cheese
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Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire
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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.
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| Stinking Bishop Cheese
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Dymock, Gloucestershire
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Perhaps the UK's most notorious cheese, known for its distinctive odour.
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