About Us

The shop was commissioned in the 1800s by local cheddar cheese merchants the Small family… Built at the foot of beautiful cliffs in the heart of the renowned Cheddar gorge and Mendip caves, with the river Yeo’s clear icy waters running directly underneath, the most ideal place to store the very finest genuine Farmhouse mature cheddar cheese.

Down on our westcountry farms we have been perfecting the art of traditional cheese making for hundreds of years, in fact we believe it is the hard work and dedication to theses time honoured traditions along with our lush green pastures, produce our unique pure rich milk that allow us to create our cheddar cheese the finest available today.