Ashmore - Hand-made Kentish Cheese from Lamberhurst Farm - Faversham Dargate http://www.cheesemakersofcanterbury.co.uk
As a silver accredited member of the Green Tourism Business Scheme (GBTS), Walk Awhile walking holidays http://www.walkawhile.co.uk has been using a locally produced whole milk hard cheese for our walkers lunches. This superb mature cheese has really gone down very well with our customers who come from all over the world to walk in the Kent Down's Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AON
. The cheese is made using a rennet suitable for vegetarians.
Having had great feedback from a couple of walkers from Cornwall about Ashmore cheese who had taken a Pilgrims' Way holiday two weeks ago , I decided to visit the old dairy at Lamberhurst Farm myself. The old dairy is just a couple of miles from the Walk Awhile office. At Lamberhurst Farm I met Teresa (and Jack an extremely friendly collie dog) who explained the story of how we now have our own local cheese makers so close to Canterbury. The dairy also produce a smoked cheese and a blue veined cheese. The dairy can be contacted on 01227 751741 or mobile 07970 681617 and they have a web-site at http://www.cheesemakersofcanterbury.co.uk. They will deliver in the Kent area and the cheese is absolutely outstanding and very reasonably priced for such a good quality product.
We have just visited Margate and Ramsgate to visit a friend who took us to The Butcher's Arms pub in Herne where we bought the 3 types of cheese made by you. We loved them all but especially the smoked cheese. We were so pleased to find the cheeses made with vegetarian rennet. We brought some back but are nearly out. Do you send it out to Essex? Would really love to buy some more because it is of such high quality.
Yours Maura Oram.