Date: 6-9 October 2023
Organiser: Yorkshire Dales National Park
The Yorkshire Dales Cheese Festival is a food festival dedicated to celebrating the local cheese producers and their products – with local businesses throughout the National Park hosting their own special events, menus and tastings to mark the occasion.
The festival typically features a range of activities, including cheese tastings, workshops, cooking demonstrations, and guided tours of local cheese-making facilities.
Visitors have the opportunity to sample a wide variety of cheeses produced by local artisans and learn about the cheese-making process.
Be on the lookout for cheesey bites and themed dishes in local cafes and restaurants, demonstrations using local produce, cookery courses, dining experiences, Yorkshire gin and ales, specially crafted dairy ice creams and sorbets, jams, jellies, and chutneys, locally reared meat on menus, and the opportunity to meet the producers.
Businesses hosting Cheese Festival events in 2023
01 – Town End Farm Shop – Airton
02 – Courtyard Dairy – Saturday event Sunday event
03 – Stonebeck Cheese
04 – Curlew Dairy
05 – Wensleydale Creamery Visitor Centre
06 – Wensleydale Ice-cream Parlour
07 – Berry, Grape and Grain
08 – Posh Cheese
10 – Country Harvest
11 – Fairhurst at Berry’s
12 – The Yorkshire Dales Brewery
13 – Crina Bottom Kiosk
14 – Spirit of Swaledale
15 – Taplin & Mageean Gin at the Wensleydale Railway
16 – The Milking Parlour
17 – Howgill Fellside Ice-cream
18 – Swaledale Cheese Company
19 – Brymor Ice-cream
20 – Kennedy’s Chocolate Shop
21 – Owens Farm Shop and Sandwath Farm Experience
22 – Piper Hole Dairy Goat Farm
23 – The Cheese Press – Richmond
24 – Spirit of Masham
25 – Love Ewe Dairy
26 – Low Fields Farm
27 – Wensleydale Brewery
28 – Lamb Brewing Company
29 – Settle Brewery
30 – Masham Cider Press
31 – Kirkby Lonsdale Brewery
32 – Otterbeck Distillery
33 – Raydale Preserve
34 – Kings Head – Ravenstonedale
35 – Stump Cross Caverns
36 – The Black Bull
37 – Stone House Hotel
38 – The Wensleydale Hotel
39 – Kilnsey Park
40 – Two Dales Bakery
41 – The Falls Cafe – Aysgarth
42 – Ashes Farm Pop Up
43 – The Station Inn – Ribblehead
44 – Seasons Bakery Artisan School
45 – How Stean Gorge
46 – Lacey’s Cheese
47 – The Marton Arms – Ingleton
48 – Grassington House