Lancashire Cheese Lovers 1 Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 9/25/2010
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

We love Lancashire cheese, well all cheese really! This is the first in a series of caches we are setting on footpaths near Lancashire cheese makers. This cache is close to Mrs Kirkham’s, a family farm which produces a traditional hand-crafted Lancashire cheese, and has been set within a ‘whey’ marked walking trail, named after the tasty variety of Lancashire cheese. Please note that the footpath near this cache can get very muddy!

You can download a map for the Tasty Lancashire Cheese walking trail at: (visit link)

Brief history of Lancashire Cheese:

There has been a long history of cheese making in Lancashire. As far back as the 12th century a Royal Charter was granted to Preston by King John to host an annual cheese fair. However, it wasn’t until the late 18th century that the cheese-making process started to produce a product that resembles the Lancashire cheese we know and love today. The method which gives Lancashire its distinctive flavour involves breaking up the curd and mixing it with curds from the previous day’s milking. Originally these blended curds were pressed using a stone cheese press, turned, clothed and salted to make a cheese. Many of the stone cheese presses still exist today and can often be seen situated close to the farm where they were once used. There are also three distinct varieties of Lancashire cheese: creamy, tasty and crumbly with crumbly being the newest recipe and the only one made outside the county of Lancashire.

Today there are ten Lancashire cheese makers all situated within a 10 mile radius of rich grassland on the edge of the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and all continuing to prepare Lancashire cheese in the traditional way from Lancashire milk. Indeed the word ‘Bowland’ itself derives from the Norse 'Bu land' meaning cattle land.

Other caches in this series:

Lancashire Cheese Lovers 2: (visit link)

Lancashire Cheese Lovers 3: (visit link)

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(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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