Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses

The Butler family has been making Lancashire cheese for commercial purposes at Wilson Fields Farm in Inglewhite since 1932 when it was first used for bartering goods at the local market.

As the business has been handed down through the generations, both growth and change has come about, but milk has always been sourced exclusively from the family’s farms or neighbouring dairy farmers, the common factor being that the herds all graze the rolling green hills of Lancashire’s Beacon Fell.

The cheeses are handmade by a select group of cheese makers passionate about their craft; using traditional farmhouse cheese making methods and time honoured recipes.

Still family owned, the company produces a range of territorial hard cheeses and more recently has moved into Blue cheeses and Goat milk cheeses with great success.

Some Awards won so far in 2006 (Tesco stocked cheeses only)

World Cheese Awards: Nantwich Cheese Show:

Gold (x2) – Blacksticks Blue                                   Bronze – Goulds Cheddar
Gold – Goulds Cheddar                                          Bronze – Tasty Lancashire
Gold – Double Gloucester                                      Gold – Blacksticks Blue
Gold – Creamy Lancashire
Gold – Tasty Lancashire

British Cheese Awards

Silver - Farmhouse Vintage Lancashire
Gold - Farmhouse Creamy Lancashire
Bronze - Farmhouse Crumbly Lancashire
Silver - Farmhouse Wensleydale
Silver - Beacon Blue (Goats blue cheese)
Bronze - Blacksticks Blue
Bronze - Blacksticks Blue for export
Bronze - Creamy Lancashire with Apricots
Bronze - Double Gloucester with Peppadews
Gold - Spreadable cheddar and spring onions