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ERRINGTON CHEESE
FARMHOUSE CHEESE DIRECT FROM THE FARM
Home of Scottish artisanal cheese.
Founded in 1984, Errington Cheese are a multi-generational farmhouse cheese producer. Specialists in ewe and goat dairy. Handcrafting iconic styles including Lanark Blue, Corra Linn, & Blackmount.
Steeped in tradition, the flavors and subtleties of their award-winning cheeses are deeply tied to the picturesque upper Clyde valley in which they are produced.
Cheese Shop & Cafe: open Wednesday - Sunday 11-3.30.
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ABOUT US
We are a small, family-run farm and cheese company started by Humphrey Errington in the early 1980’s.
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We farm as extensively and naturally as possible, our sheep lamb early in the year and dry off at the end of August, they are fed on a grass based diet with the addition of parlour nuts during milking. The Goats kid several times a year so we are able to produce goats milk cheese all year round.
OUR HISTORY
We moved from Dumfriesshire to Lanarkshire in 1981, running as a mixed farming enterprise of beef cattle and sheep. My Father Humphrey Errington started looking at ways of diversifying and became interested in sheep milking and ewes milk cheese because of the ancient tradition of this activity in the upper Clyde area, and because it offered the chance to add value to the farm product and be free of dependence on government subsidies.
Cheese making began in 1983 on a small scale and now the farming enterprise is geared to the need for ewes’ milk in order to keep up with the growing demand for the cheese. Because the sheep milking in the winter months is not a practical possibility in Scotland, in the late 1980’s we began buying in cows’ milk to keep us busy in the winter. This inaugurated the range of cows’ milk cheeses, still of traditional local types.
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