Wensleydale Creamery
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Tuesday: 10:00 - 16:00
Wednesday: 10:00 - 16:00
Thursday: 10:00 - 16:00
Friday: 10:00 - 16:00
Saturday: 10:00 - 16:30
Sunday: 10:00 - 16:30
About Wensleydale Creamery
Home to Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese, Yorkshire Cheddar, Yorkshire Butter & Yorkshire Yogurt, as well as a fantastic Visitor Centre!
Wensleydale Creamery Description
The Wensleydale Creamery in Hawes is the home of Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese. It uses traditional methods to handcraft cheese to time-honoured recipes, using milk from local farms as well as being innovative with the development of new recipes. The business supplies a broad range of customers including major multiple retailers, exporters, wholesalers and the food service sector.
Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese is now protected! The Wensleydale Creamery has been successful in achieving Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) by the European Commission for it's Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese. Achieving PGI status means ensures no other cheese-maker outside of the designated area can produce a cheese and call it Yorkshire Wensleydale.
Yorkshire Wensleydale has a historic pedigree with it first being made in the Yorkshire Dales in 1150 by Cistercian monks.
In 1995 The Wensleydale Creamery was the first to launch Yorkshire Wensleydale & Cranberries, which has now become one of its best sellers and has firmly become established as a ‘core’ cheese in the blended cheese category.
Reviews
Did you know we make fudge at the Creamery now with our own Yorkshire Butter?! Melt in the mouth yumminess. Have you tried some yet? 💛 #yorkshire #fudge #yorkshirebutter #wensleydalecreamery #creamery #fudgemaking #homemadefudge #artisan #yummy #dales #yorkshire #tasteofyorkshire #godsowncountry #treat #sunday 🍰 @ Wensleydale Creamery
A match made in heaven!! We partnered up with @rosebudpreserves who created the most amazing chutney to go with our Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese! Handcrafted and hand made goodness! Buy the gift box now in our Visitor Centre 🧀🎁🤤👀 #yorkshire #yorkshirewensleydale #rosebudpreserves #chutneyandcheese #cheese #cheeseboard #cheese #chutney #handmade #giftbox #notjustforchristmas
Want to cook like Yorkshire Chef, Stephanie Moon? Follow this link for exclusive Yorkshire Cheddar recipes designed by Steph! https://1.shortstack.com/TVthJF
When you think your Friday night chippy tea couldn’t get any better! 🧀🍟🐟 #chippytea #friday #fishandchips #dales #yorkshirewensleydale #deepfriedcheese #deepfried #cheese #hawes #localproduce #tasty #delicious #cheeseboard #cheeselover #wensleydale #wensleydalecreamery #yorkshiredales #yorkshire #localdelicacy @ The Chippie Hawes
Some shots from yesterday’s sampling at the England v India One Day International 🏏 we had such a great day and loved all of the great feedback of our Yorkshire Cheddar 🧀
We’re at the @yorkshireccc sampling our new #yorkshirecheddar! #EngVInd #cricket #testmatch #testmatchcricket #cricket #england #india #wensleydalecreamery #cheese #cheddar #new #taster @ Headingley Carnegie Cricket Ground
Breaking news! Water is falling from the sky! Great news for our farmers, cows and cheese-making! 🧀🐮🌿💦
Such a fabulous competition prize (If we do say so ourselves!) and great for raising awareness and celebrating our stunning countryside! Enter to win! 🍀
Thank you to @gillybee_1 for the fabulous photo! We have new Summer menus available, showcasing our award-winning cheese! #visitorcenter #wensleydalecreamery #yorkshirewensleydale #cheese #cheeseontoast #perfection #champions #yorkshire #dales #tasteofyorkshire #placestovisit #cheeselover #yum #fentimans #friday #yorkshirecheddar #yorkshirerarebit #yorkshirebutter 🤪🧀
The Wensleydale Cup! So proud to announce that it’s coming home! 🧀🏆
We’ll be live on our Facebook page very soon and will be giving you an insight into the best auction around. The Great Yorkshire Cheese Auction. Watch our Yorkshire Cheddar and Yorkshire Wensleydale be auctioned off - all proceeds go to the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. 🧀🏆👋💸💷
It wasn’t a dream! We’re still so thrilled that Yorkshire’s Own Cheddar won the big Cheese at the 160th Great Yorkshire Show! Hoorah for Yorkshire Cheddar 🏆🧀
Wow! What a year. We are so proud of our Cheese and of our team!
Our brand new Yorkshire Cheddar has well and truly impressed the judges! We have won Supreme Champion Cheese and Best Yorkshire Product with it!
Our famous Yorkshire Wensleydale won the Wensleydale Cup, Supreme Reserve.
... Our Yorkshire Yogurts wowed everybody too.
What a day 🏆🧀!
Well done to everybody who won and who entered. A great year for Cheese and Dairy!
#yorkshirecheddar #godsowncountry #cheeseboard #yorkshirewensleydale #yorkshirebrie #dales #gys #greatyorkshireshow #awards #champions #winner #winnerwinnerchickendinner #cheese #cheddar #brie #yogurt #yorkshireyogurt #cheeseboard @ Great Yorkshire Show
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LIVE AT THE GREAT YORKSHIRE CHEESE AND DAIRY SHOW AWARDS 🏆🧀
How amazing are these trophies?! Tune in at 11am for LIVE broadcast from the Cheese and Dairy Results Show at GYS18! Good Luck everybody! 🏆🧀
We officially declare The Great Yorkshire Show as the year of Yorkshire Cheddar. Have a great show everybody....come see us for a cheeky taster or two #delicious #yorkshirewensleydale #wensleydalecreamery #yorkshirebrie #yorkshirecheddar #yorkshirebutter #greatyorkshireshow #thegreatyorkshireshow #samples #stall #foodie #cheeseboard #cheese #cheeselover #yorkshiredales #dales #godsowncountry #showtime @ Great Yorkshire Show
We officially declare The Great Yorkshire Show as the year of Yorkshire Cheddar. Have a great show everybody....come see us for a cheeky taster or two #delicious #yorkshirewensleydale #wensleydalecreamery #yorkshirebrie #yorkshirecheddar #yorkshirebutter #greatyorkshireshow #thegreatyorkshireshow #samples #stall #foodie #cheeseboard #cheese #cheeselover #yorkshiredales #dales #godsowncountry #showtime @ Great Yorkshire Show
Mouthwatering apple pie with a slice of Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese! A match made in heaven! Thanks to @rachael_l_hogg for the fabulous photo 🧀🍏🥧 get a real taste of Yorkshire in our 1897 Coffee Shop and Calvert's Restaurant!
A creamy, buttery-textured cheese, full of flavour with citrusy, lemon notes! Perfect for this Summer weather!
we always make a detour to Hawes so that we can pick up our cheese fix. Love most of the cheeses but our favorites are Onion and chives and blue wensleydale. The blue as a more supple taste and isnt as strong as stilton(which I dont like). Theres a very well stocked shop were you can purchase almost anything thats made in Yorkshire, from tea bags to beer. Theres a very nice cafe that servers only things that are locally sourced. So its not just a factory its a place you can spend time in and taste cheese,.
Wonderfully insightful and educative tour, great fun for the little one, incredibly innovative business, best cheese tasting selection on the planet!
We had a fabulous time at the Wensleydale experience. So much to see and do at a very small cost. The cheese tasting was outstanding. ��
Visited last week. Excellent cafe, superb coffee and got chocolate with fresh whipped cream and marsh mallows. Cheese emporium is cheese heaven spend a fortune. Then the shop......
The food served in the restaurant is fabulous! I’m Coeliac and the dishes I had were so good. Lovely shop, tasty cheese, but I didn’t do the tour so can’t comment on that. Nice clean facilities too �
The creamery is amazing the self guided tour was fantastic, learned lots of interesting cheesy facts and as it is a working factory you get to see it made. Then to top it off you have the gift shop for everything you could ever want. The cheese shop inside the gift shop is amazing, as you get to taste so many cheeses. This is good for all the family.
Stopped for coffee and cake - excellent as always. Also took the opportunity to stock up on cheese including one with Black Sheep ale!
Recently sampled new yogurt range, wow very nice and tasty a real serious yogurt with proper creamy yogurt taste, only one slight mark for improvement on the pot bottoms as they are a bit fragile and I lost one because it dropped out of fridge and split open, not big drop either only about two feet. Will purchase again as best yogurt I've tasted in ages, just needs care in handling during transportation and fridgeing
Love it. Enjoyed everything's there yesterday worth it. Lovely shop, interested history's the things, lovely restaurants very cleaning. Thanks booked interpreter for the deaf people really enjoyed themselves & myself. Enjoyed different kind of taste of cheeses yummy.
If you are a cheese lover this is the place to go. The cheese tasting area is a must and introduces you to a variety of different cheeses which otherwise you might not have considered buying.
Great place to go. Cheeses are the best. Would recommend a visit
Great cheese testing and had to bring plenty home plus some beers as well. Enjoyable experience
Full of such great food ����� scones massive with cream, butter and jam. Oh the cheese tasting mmmmm delightful spent nearly a hundred pounds between the shopping list I had from The Crown at lofthouse my daughter and me ,hot chili cheese , pineapple Wensleydale , caramelized onion , apricot cheese , the list is endless well worth the drive xxx
Fantastic place to visit got to be on everyone's must see list
Fantastic place to visit and the staff demonstrations were just great. Very knowledgeable and with a good dose of Yorkshire humour. Lots of info and great tasting and shopping opportunities. Loved it!
Cheese Louise what a gorgeous village tour and shop / large coffee shop
Well worth the visit, very informative you get to see the cheese being made & to finish it off there is a cracking restaurant with delicious food great service or a coffee shop & not to mention the cheese sampling room great job
Some interesting historical cheesemaking equipment and a very informative (and humorous) lady giving a practical display. As we were there on a Sunday, the creamery was not in production, but film and touch screen helped understand the industrial process.
The (free) cheese tasting is excellent with numerous interesting combinations to try - we did!!!! Prices are reasonable and I believe cheaper than those in supermarkets.
The restauarant was also good value and the food excellent.
Worth the detour 👍🏽👍🏽
New cafe - always enjoyed my wensleydale cheese and fruit cake in front of the log fire but that’s now a restaurant. Still quality!
More about Wensleydale Creamery
Tuesday: 10:00 - 16:00
Wednesday: 10:00 - 16:00
Thursday: 10:00 - 16:00
Friday: 10:00 - 16:00
Saturday: 10:00 - 16:30
Sunday: 10:00 - 16:30