Stilton Cheese: A History by Trevor Hickman

Author:Trevor Hickman [Hickman, Trevor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
Published: 2012-09-05T22:00:00+00:00

1792

Shuckburgh Ashby died; the factoring and producing Stilton cheese expanded with little or no controls, inferior cheese was marketed under the name of Stilton cheese and sold to the coaching trade in Stilton.

1797

Large parts of Huntingdonshire were not enclosed until 1797. The open fields and the drove road of parts of Ermine Street was fenced off. The sheep trade disappeared and drovers no longer grazed their cattle on the side of the unfenced road and on parts of the fen. Sheep no longer provided milk to produce cheese. There would be little or no sheep or cattle grazing in the fenced fields. A majority of income was obtained from horses. It is recorded that at least 300 horses were retained by The Angel and Blue Bell Inn. Hay was needed; some would be mown in the fenland to the east of Stilton. The coaching trade was big business. Frances Pawlett ceased trading in Stilton cheese. The Day family who lived at the manor house in Wymondham took over the Stilton cheese trade in East Leicestershire. Their main competitors in Wymondham were the Mann family.

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