PUMPKIN GROWERS

The New Forest, has no great history of cheese making, unlike the West Country. Traditionally, in the last 100 years, the milk from Hampshire, has always travelled eastwards to the large conurbations of Southampton and London, to be sold as bottled milk. Historically records show that cheese, will have been made by the Cistercian Monks at Beaulieu and other Monasteries, back in the 1200's. Cheese will also have been made on the various farmsteads in the last 500 years, particularly those farms that are named ‘White House Farm' as they will certainly have had connections with cheese. The manors of Winchester, of which this area was part, including Downton, indicate that cheese was made locally, but not in large commercial quantities. For the valley of the Blackwater, and Lyburn Farm, cheese making is a relatively new venture set up to address the needs of a changing market place... In 1952 our family bought and moved to a small 50 acre farm called Little Buckholt, close to the village..

Primary location: Salisbury United Kingdom