Colston Bassett Blue Stilton
About Colston Bassett Creamery ....
Colston Bassett & District Dairy Limited was built in 1913, funded by a group of local milk producers, and other local people. It was built specifically to make Stilton Cheese, a local speciality made in farmhouses in the area. The only breaks in production were in wartime, a little cheddar was made in WWII.
The dairy was set up as a farmers co-operative and registered with the Registrar of Friendly Societies, and remains so to this day.
Baby Truckles of Colston Bassett
Although over the years the number of milk producers has fallen from around 18 to only 4 today, this has been in the main due to consolidation of farms. In fact today the local pasturised whole cows milk is largely produced from the same pastures as it was in the beginning. These 4 farms now make more milk than the original 18.
Colston Basset Sampling!
