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Published 2014
Good Cheshire must (unlike cheddar) be made in its region of origin; this is around Chester, the county town of Cheshire. The flavour of the cheese depends on the salty marl and sandstone grazing land along the River Dee and its tributaries, as well, no doubt, on the cattle; those same cattle which, in Charles Kingsley’s sad poem, Mary was invited to call home across the sands of Dee.