The Northumberland Cheese Company shop front at Blagdon, with its black awning and planters

About Northumberland Cheese Company

From our dairy at Blagdon, we've been crafting award-winning cheese the Northumbrian way for over 30 years.

Award winning cheeses

Café

Tours

Cheese wedding cakes

Cheese Box Club
Two Northumberland Cheese Company team members in branded black aprons beside a board of cheeses at a deli counter

Our Story

Northumberland Cheese Company began with a simple belief: that this landscape - its pastures, its farming traditions, its people - makes cheese worth celebrating.

For over three decades we've crafted cheese from our dairy at Blagdon, in the heart of Northumberland. What started as a small operation has grown into one of the Northeast's best-known artisan cheesemakers, but the way we work hasn't changed. We still make in small batches and still let the seasons shape what we produce.

Our Roots

Northumberland Cheese Company traces its roots to 1984, when sheep farmer Marc Robertson began making cheese by hand in his farmhouse kitchen at Soppit Farm in Elsdon, seeking to become less reliant on EU subsidies.

After learning his craft in Holland and refining his recipes, he launched the Redesdale Sheep Dairy in 1985, later expanding into cows' milk cheeses as the business grew. In 1996 the company moved to Blagdon and rebranded as the Northumberland Cheese Company, where today it produces around a tonne of cheese a week.
Founder Marc Robertson holding a whole truckle of Northumberland cheese in the farmyard
A cheesemaker in a white coat, green apron and blue gloves lifting fresh curd from a steel cheese vat at the dairy

Our Craft

Good cheese can't be rushed. We make in small batches, by hand, using traditional methods refined over years, paired with the modern standards you'd expect on quality, hygiene and care.

Because we work with the seasons, our range shifts through the year, and every cheese is made to be enjoyed at its best. From fresh and mild to rich and mature, there's a Northumberland cheese for every board, every recipe and every occasion.

Discover the Northumberland Cheese World

Cheese is where it starts - but there's a lot more to Northumberland Cheese Company.
Inside the Cheese Loft Cafe: beamed ceiling with fairy lights, bunting and customers at wooden tables

Cheese Loft Café

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A glass of red wine and a wedge of hard cheese in front of a chalkboard for a Cheese & Spanish Wine Night

Events and Dairy Tours

See what's on and book your place

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Four-tier cheese wedding cake dressed with daisies and a bride and groom topper, surrounded by grapes, strawberries and kiwi

Cheese Wedding Cakes

Our bespoke wedding cheese towers make an unforgettable centrepiece

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The deli counter in the Northumberland Cheese Company shop with the Cheese of the Month board

Trade

We supply cheese to shops, delis, restaurants and more

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Explore the range

From award-winning cheeses to the chutneys, crackers and drinks that go with them - everything you need for the perfect board.
A Bamburgh truckle in black wax between wedges of Oak Smoked and Nettle cheese on a log board

Cheeses