Cheddar is a a pretty little market town with a fine old market cross (recently knocked down by a taxi driver who sneezed, but now restored) known chiefly for it’s cheese and gorge.
Real cheddar cheese, firm, grainy, strong with complex flavours and wonderful for eating or cooking, is very different from the slabs of soap which can be found in supermarkets. The best is aged for nine months or more, often stored in the cool caves of the Mendip Hills. Also made in Cheddar are the fine Cheddar Ales, produced in a fine micro-brewery and including Potholer Golden, Goats Leap, Gorge Best (a pun on George Best the footballer) and Totty Pot Dark Porter.
Cheddar Gorge is a limestone gorge 400 feet deep, with fabulous rocky crags and complex cave systems, first inhabited by people over 10,000 years ago! It’s a great tourist attraction but despite the crowds remains magnificent and breath-taking.
Cheddar Gorge is also home to Derrick’s Tea Room! On a recent visit to Derrick’s we noticed how green everywhere was in Cheddar, lush and vivid, because of all this summer’s rain.
http://www.derrickstearoom.co.uk/
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/cheddar-gorge/
http://www.cheddargorge.co.uk/
Lois Elsden 
“slabs of soap which can be found in supermarkets” Ain’t that the truth. I find that the not from deli cheese without wrappers taste a little better than plastic wrapped which have no flavor. And the price ! More now than a gallon of gas for some packs.
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Gosh Lo it brings back memories, must have 1974 that I was there, nice pictures
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Shucks I’d eat bad cheese in the lovely places of your pictures. I wonder if I have ever tasted real cheddar? Fortunately, some lovely cheeses are finding their way (whey?) outside of huge supermarkets.
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