The Cheese & Cracker
Opened in Late August 2025, by Amber Ryan, The Cheese and Cracker aims to provide high-quality, British-made goods to the people of Much Wenlock. Having scoured England and Wales for some of the most unique and delicious cheeses, the selection here is sure to have something to enhance every cheese board. With a prime focus on natural and sustainable ingredients, Amber has also sourced some amazing accompaniments such as Chutneys, Jams, Fresh Bread and more!
CHEESES
As one of the first cheeses we originally sold, The Dairy Door is a part of a small, Family-run farm in Wyke, which is just a little over three miles from the shop.
@ £3.00 per 100g
St Bartie’s – Brie Style Cheese
The Wedge – Gouda Style Cheese
Harley Halloumi
The Ledge – White Stilton
Based in the heart of Shropshire, Belton Farm Cheese produce quality cheese using locally sourced ingredients. Their milk comes from a dedicated group of local dairy farmers, and their salt is sourced at the historic Cheshire Salt Mines.
Sage Derby- Smooth and creamy marbled with sage @ £3.00 each
Double Glouster with onion and chive @ £3.00 each
Red Fox -16 month aged Red Leicester @ £3.00 each
Based in Whitchurch, Shropshire, Westry Roberts are a specialist in cheese, dairy and fine food wholesale.
Wensleydale – Crumbly and delicate with mellow notes of honey @ 2.10 per 100g
Caerphilly – Crumbly, delicate and moist with a milky flavour @ 2.10 per 100g
Wensleydale & Cranberry – Crumbly and delicate with juicy cranberries throughout @ 2.10 per 100g
Shropshire Blue – a semi-firm, cow’s milk cheese with a creamy, savoury flavour @ 2.50 per 100g
Monkland Cheese is a Herefordshire based Dairy producing Hand-made Cheese using Raw Milk and Vegetarian Rennet. Working in small-scale Batches, Dean and his team work diligently to produce and develop their unique cheeses.
@ £2.80 per 100g
Little Hereford- Full Flavoured, Hard Cheese, Matured for 4 months Minimum
Hereford Sage – Fresh sage, Mellow and Creamy
Monkland – Light and Crumbly, Creamy yet acidic
Monkland with Garlic and Chives – “Unashamedly Garlickly”
Blue Monk – Soft and Creamy Blue, becoming Softer and Creamier with age
Oak-Smoked Little Hereford – Little Hereford Cheese Smoked by Black Mountain Smokery
Neal’s Yard Creamery started in the 1970s as a collection of food businesses, who all shared the same goal, to bring simple, quality dairy products to British families. They began as a small shop stocking yogurt, crème fraiche and cheese. Today they work with about 40 cheesemakers from Britain and Ireland.
Goat’s Cheese-
Ragstone – Matured, Soft with a densely fudgy texture @ £7.50 each
Dorstone – Turret-shaped, light, fluffy texture with thin mould rind @ £7.25 each
Plain Perroche – Fresh, young with a lovely lactic tang @ £5.50 each
Finn – Double Cream Cheese @ £5.75 each
Caws Cenarth a cheesemaker based in West Wales. Their Golden Cenarth is Semi-soft organic cheese, which is washed in cider. It has a nutty yet unique savoury taste. You can enjoy it as it comes or warm it for about 20 minutes at 200 °C and it becomes perfect for dipping in bread, excellent for a Winter’s Night In. We also offer their Perl Las.
Perl Las – Creamy Blue @ £6.85 each
Cheshire Cheese Co and Joseph Heler both Cheese Markers operate from the Laurels Farm in Nantwich, where Cheshire Cheese has been produced by hand since 1957. Using the very best of British, and honouring family recipes, they make a Unique range of traditional and blended cheese combinations. Their wax coated truckles offer lots of exciting flavours that make a great accompaniment to any cheese board.
@200g Cheshire Cheese Co Wax Truckles £5.50 each
Black Bob – Extra Mature
Traditional – Creamy Cheshire Cheese
Vintage- Special – Aged Mature Cheddar
Reserva Cheddar Cheese – Caramelised Onion& Roja
Jerk Spice- Jamaican Jerk Chilli & Garlic
Charcoal – Mature Cheddar Blended with Active Charcoal
Smokewood – Smoked and Aged Red Leicester
@ 200g Joseph Heler Blocks £2.50 each
Cheshire
Mature Cheddar
Mild Cheddar
Double Glouster
Blackstone Cheddar
Simon Weaver Organic pride themselves on long-lasting, sustainable farming methods to support the welfare of their herd and of the land. The Weaver family have been farming in the Cotswolds for the past three generations and in the southwest of England since before 1570. They turned their hand to award winning cheese in 2005 and have not looked back since.
Cotswold Blue Veined – Organic, soft & creamy texture, white moulded, with a Roquefort blue mould @ £4.00 each
Cotswold Smoked Brie @ £4.60 each
Long Clawson Dairy has been a producer of Traditional British cheese for over one hundred years.
@ £5.25 each
Long Clawson Stilton – Creamy, Crumbly with Savoury blue veining
Bath Soft Cheese Co is run by Hugh Padfield, the fourth generation to continue their legacy of ensuring that every cheese made at Park Farm is not just food, but a taste of history, heritage, and the rich Somerset pastures. Wyfe of Bath is a traditional English farmhouse cheese, matured for 4–6 months to develop a rich, layered character.
@ £7.75 each
Wyfe of Bath – Buttery, Nutty, Elegant, Bath’s answer to Dutch Gouda
We think that Fen Farm Dairy’s slogan wonderfully encompasses their ethos ‘Farm within your means. Within your community. Be as responsible as you can’. Their Baron Bigod is the finest traditional Brie-de-Meaux style cheese produced in the UK and one of only a handful of its type in the world to be made by the farmer on the farm.
Baron Bigod – Brie Style Soft Cheese @ £10.00 per 250g wheel in a Cheese box
Village Maid Cheese was created by Anne Wigmore in 1986, who dedicated her life to developing new recipes and beautiful handmade cheeses. They have won a plethora of awards over the years, and their Wigmore Cheese was 1 of just 100 cheeses awarded Super Gold at the 2023/24 World Cheese Awards!
Wigmore – Delicate & creamy ewes’ milk cheese with a gentle flavour @ £8.50 each
One of our newest cheesemakers, Burt’s Cheese, started out in early 2009 in Altrincham, Cheshire. However, after just one year, Claire Burt won gold at the International Cheese Show in Nantwich for Burt’s Blue!
Burt’s Blue- a soft mould ripened cheese @ £7.60 each
Butler’s Cheese are an independent 4th Generation family cheesemaker, based in rural Lancashire, hand making farmhouse hard, soft and blue cheese for all to enjoy.
Beacon Blue – a creamy, fresh on the tongue blue goats’ cheese with a peppery tang @ £5.75 each
Founded in 2001 by brothers John and Richard, the Snowdonia Cheese Company has become a must on many British Cheeseboards. Their classic Black Bomber is probably our most popular cheese and rightly so – it is crafted using the same original recipe. Its intense flavour yet creamy texture is demandingly moreish.
Black bomber – Extra Mature Cheddar @ £5.50 each
Rockstar – Vintage Cave-aged Cheddar @ £6.00 each
Red Storm – Vintage Red Leicester @ £5.50 each
Truffle Trove – Cheddar with Italian Truffles @ £6.00 each
Ruby Mist – Cheddar with Port & Brandy @ £5.50 each
Pickle Power – Pickled Onion Cheddar @ £5.50 each
Bouncing Berry – Cheddar with Cranberries @ £5.50 each
Amber Mist – Cheddar with Single Malt Whiskey @ £5.50 each
The Hampshire Cheese Company are an award-winning, artisan cheesemaker. Tunworth is a very British Camembert – a soft, white-rinded cheese, with a rich and earthy mushroom fragrance, and a long-lasting sweet and nutty flavour.
Tunworth Camembert @ £10.00 each
Longley Farm is an independent dairy working in Yorkshire for more than 50 years. Their full fat cream cheese works brilliantly in sweet or savoury dishes. Its thick, creamy and delicious – what’s more it only contains two pure ingredients, milk and salt, no added colours or preservatives.
Cream Cheese @1.80 per 200g tub
INTERNATIONAL CHEESE
We also offer some international cheeses, which are great for topping pizzas, salads or adding a something different to your Cheeseboard.
Parmesan @ £3.70 per 100g
Mozzarella @ £1.60 each
Cambozola @ £2.35 per 100g
Greek Feta @ 4.00 each
YOGURT
The Estate Dairy produce non-homogenised whole milk Greek style yogurt, with an excellent fruit compote base.
@ £1.25 per 125g glass jar
Strawberry & Rhubarb
Lemon Curd
Passion Fruit
Cherry
Along with their great selection of goats’ cheeses we also stock other Neal’s Yard Creamery dairy products including their traditionally made live yogurt and lightly soured Crème Fraiche.
Greek Style Yogurt strained @ £3.20 per 340g tub
Organic Crème Fraiche @ £2.80 per 140g tub
Fen Farm Dairy’s Skyr-style yogurt is thick, entirely natural and packed with protein. It’s made on the farm, where no thickeners, stabilisers or milk powders are added – just live cultures and their own skimmed milk.
Natural Yoghurt @ £3.60 per 400g tub
Blackcurrant Yoghurt @ £3.80 per 400g tub
Honey Yoghurt @ £3.80 per 400g tub
Strawberry Yoghurt @ £3.80 per 400g tub
BUTTER
Welsh Shirgar Salted Butter @ £2.95
MILK
We became Stockists of Proper Good Dairy’s Organic Whole Milk in November 2024; their Milk quickly became extremely popular and is now a staple in most Wenlock fridges. Their Milk is bottled on site at their Family-Run Farm in South Shropshire. It is pasteurised but unhomogenised, meaning the cream is left to rise to the top.
Whole Milk £2.70
With a Bottle Return £1.70
BREAD DIPPERS & OILS
Charlie & Ivy’s are a Family-owned business, who aim to create artisan products that are easy to use so people can enjoy simple, delicious food every day. They are based in the Yorkshire Wolds; the Palmer Family and their team produce their products from their farm. They use their own cold pressed Yorkshire rapeseed oil, giving the Great Taste Award flavour they have become known for.
@ £6 each
BlackBerry, Thyme and Balsamic
Chilli, Garlic and Ginger
Garlic, Oregano & Balsamic
Rosemary, Thyme and Lemon
Cold Pressed Rapeseed Oil @ £4.50 per 250ml bottle
Carefully handmade on the island of Crete, Olive Branch’s 100% natural extra virgin olive oil is cold pressed to give a fruity and intense flavour.
Extra Virgin Olive Oil @10.50 per 500ml bottle
CRACKERS
Set up in 2015, Popti is based just under 4 miles from Bude, Cornwall. They wanted to produce biscuits and crackers that were not mass produced but rather produced by hand. They are also Vegan and Palm Oil free.
@ £2.95 a box
Muiltiseed Cracker
Sea Salt – Thins
Parmesan – Thins
Garden Thyme – Thins
Fragrant Rosemary – Thins
As a part of the Popti brand, Fionagh’s was developed by and named after one of the founders at the Norton Barton Farm.
@ £2.95 a box
Original Sourdough
Buttermilk
We also offer the Mini Oatcakes from Findlater’s, which are perfect for canapes or snacking.
@ £2.80 a box
Artisan biscuits are a long-standing family run bakery in the Derbyshire Peak District. They started over 100 years ago and are still using the same bronze rollers and biscuit moulding method. They also offer a gluten-free range.
Millers Toast @ £4.95 a box
Cranberry & Raisin
Fig & Sultana
Plum & Date
Millers Elements @ £2.95 a box
Ale
Fire
Millers Harvest @ £3.30 a box
Three Fruit – Apple, Sultanas & Date
Three Seed – Linseed, Sesame & Poppy Seeds
Three Nut – Walnut, Almond & Hazelnut
Millers Damsel @ £3.05 a box
Charcoal
Gluten Free Crackers @ £3.55 a box
Millers Toast Cranberry & raisin
Millers Damsel Charcoal
We are delighted to offer some gluten free alternatives as well from Bath’s Fine Cheese Cheese Co.
Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Sea Salt GF@ £3.90 per box
The Heritage Range – No Wheat Rounds GF@ £4.70 per box
DRESSINGS, MAYONNAISE & SAUCES
A great way to enhance any dish, Potts’s sauces bring flavour to mid-week meals with ease! They also offer a classic French Dressing.
Pour-over sauces @ £3.45 each
Bearnaise
Dianne
Mushroom with White Wine and Garlic
Hollandaise
Parsley
Mornay Cheese
Three Peppercorn & Brandy
Cooking sauces @ £4 each
Beef Bourguignon
Bolognese
Carbonara
Chasseur
Coq Au Vin
Fish Pie
Stroganoff
Moules Marinieres
French Dressing @ 4.00 per bottle
Charlie & Ivy’s expansive range also include many different Dressings and Mayonnaises. They can be used to spice up any Barbecue or Charcuterie board or simply add a bit of excitement to your salad.
@ £4 each
Honey & Mustard
Lemon & Poppyseed
Smoked Chilli
Mango & Chilli
@ £4 each
Lemon and Dill Mayonnaise
Chilli & Lime Mayonnaise
Made with the same Just Oil’s cold pressed extra virgin Rapeseed Oil. Try drizzling their dressings on poultry or on top of vegetables before roasting for extra flavour.
@ £4 per 250ml bottle
Honey & Mustard Dressing
A Family business through and through, From Dorset with Love began in a home Kitchen in 2010. It has since expanded to a converted stable just outside Milton Abbas though it still retains its open pan cooking method and uses as many locally sourced ingredients as possible.
@ £3.25 per bottle
Brown Sauce
Tomato Ketchup
Smoky BBQ Sauce
Sweet Chilli
Vegan Worcester Sauce
Dorsetshire Sauce @ £6.00 per bottle
Calon Lân also offer a mayonnaise, while seemingly plain it adds flavour and depth to anything it is paired with. It is made from cold-pressed Welsh Rapeseed oil.
Blodyn Aur Mayonnaise @ £4.50 each
DROITWICH SALT
Droitwich Salt is harvested by hand at Churchfields Saltworks, one of the oldest and purest brine springs in the world.
@ £3.50 each
Ultra Fine
Sprinkling and Grinding
OLIVES
Based in St Austell, The Cornish Olive Stall is a family run business that hand-prepare their olives in small batches. Their Olives are not pasteurised, nor are they soaking in a salty brine or oil. Then packaged in their pouches, the oxygen is removed, keeping them fresh without using preservatives.
@ £5.20 per 200g Pouch
Pitted Green Olives
Kalamata Olives
The Mix Olives
STOCK AND GRAVY
Coming in 100% fully recyclable cans, both Potts’s stock and gravy cans are rich with flavour and ready to add to your next Sunday dinner or Stew.
Stock
@ £2.90 per 500g can
Vegetable
Fish
Beef
Chicken
Gravy
@ £3.30 per 330g can
Beef & Red Wine
Chicken, White Wine and Thyme
Caramelised Onion
Turkey with Maderia & Sage
STUFFING & BREAD SAUCE
A must for many people’s roast dinner, Shropshire Spice Co. produce a range of stuffings and a spooning bread sauce.
Stuffings
Parsley Thyme & Lemon @ £2.60
Wild Sage & Roast Onion @ £2.60
Roasted Chestnut @ £2.60
Cranberry, Orange & Chestnut @ £2.60
Bread Sauce @ £2.60
Gluten Free Range
@ £2.80
Parsley & Thyme GF
Wild Sage & Red Onion GF
@ £2.80
Bread Sauce GF
JAMS, CHUTNEYS & SPREADS
Calon Lân make their chutneys using recipes in Pwllheli on the Llŷn Peninsula in north Wales. Their condiments make a companion to your Sunday Roast, Cheeseboard or even as a dip for your favourite crisps.
@ £3.25 each
Horseradish Sauce
Redcurrant Jelly
Scotch Bonnet Chilli Jam
English Mustard
Mint Sauce
Bramley Apple Sauce
Cranberry Sauce
Based in North Shropshire, Petton Preserves was started with the leftover fruit from trees in a Historic Victorian Walled Garden. Since then, it has grown into a producer of Jams, Chutneys and Marmalades.
@ £3.50 per 8oz Jar – Jams
Apple Pie
Damson & Spice
Gooseberry & Ginger
Simply Raspberry
Sparlingberry
Summerberry & Vanilla
Blackcurrant & Lavender
@ £3.50 per 8oz Jar
Seville Orange, Gin & Ginger Marmalade
@ £3.50 per 8oz Jar – Chuntneys
Beetroot, Apple & Garlic
Carrot with a Kick
Petton Pickle
Tangy Towerberry
Spicy Tomonion
Our Wonderfully crunchy Piccalilli From Dorset with Love is packed with Chunky Vegetables.
Piccalilli @ £4.00 each
The Ludlow Nut Company’s high-oleic, meaning lower in saturated fat, Peanut Butter is milled in Ludlow with gently roasted peanuts to make their creamy smooth and their crunchy peanut butter. A pinch of pink Himalayan salt is added to bring out the flavour – and that’s it!
@ £3.99 each per 250g jar
Smooth Peanut Butter
Crunchy Peanut Butter
COFFEE
Based less than fifteen miles away in Shrewsbury, Darwin Coffee is a speciality coffee roaster. Sourced as green beans from small, sustainable farms across the world, they are then roasted to suit each type to enhance their flavour.
Beans or ground coffee pouches are available
@125g £5.00 per pouch OR @250g £9.70 per pouch
Ethiopian Sidama Mirado Coffee
Colombian Finca Buenos Aires Coffee
Brazilian Paraiso Coffee
@125g £5.50 per pouch OR @250g £10.50 per pouch
Mexican Grapos Decaffeinated Coffee
CEREALS
The Ludlow Nut Company also offer Granola, Porridge and Muesli.
Made with four different seeds, puffed rice, coconut, oats and a spoon full of Canadian maple syrup, their granola is a way to start your day.
Granola @ £5.50 per pack
Luxury Granola
Gluten Free Luxury Granola
With no fruit and no nuts, just UK-grown jumbo and rolled oats their porridge can be enjoyed simply as it is or with your own toppings.
Porridge @ £3.99 per pack
Luxury Porridge Jumbo Oat Blend
A mix of oats and toasted cereals and fruits, nuts and seeds this Muesli is as delicious as it is nutritious.
Luxury Muesli – Fruit, Nut & Seed @ £4.99 per pack
Luxury Muesli – Blueberries @ £4.99 per pack
Gluten Free Muesli @ £5.25 per pack
ICE-CREAM
Using the milk from their own herd, Laura’s Delicious Dairy churn out a variety of ice-cream whilst using only natural colourings and flavourings.
@ £2.20 per 125ml tub OR £5.50 per 500ml tub
Very Vanilla
Summer Strawberry
Double Chocolate
Lemon Curd
Coffee
Salted Caramel
FINDLATER’S FINE FOODS
Findlater’s began as a Restaurant and Delicatessen back in 2004, selling Dips, Pates and Coleslaw. They have gone on to win awards, including a three-star Great Taste Award in 2020 for their classic Chicken Liver Pate. All the Pates are served in individual tubs at 120g each.
@ £3.75 each
Duck Liver with Apricot poached in Cointreau
Chicken Liver Finished with Brandy & Port
Stilton & Pear with a Touch of Honey
Roast Salmon with Cracked Black Pepper, Lemon & Lime
Keeping it simple Findlater’s use onion, red cabbage and carrots smothered in their mayonnaise to create their Coleslaw.
Coleslaw 250g @ £3.50 each
CRISPS
Made with their own home-grown potato crop and cold pressed rapeseed oil, Just Crisps produce crisps with a difference.
@ £2.50 per 150g bag
Sea Salt
Mature Cheddar & Red Onion
Sea Salt & Apple Balsamic Vinegar
Sweet Chilli
Sea Salt & Black Pepper
Jalapeno
Taste of Game @ £2.50 per 150g bag
Wild Duck & Plum Sauce
Smoked Pheasant & Wild Mushroom
Wild Boar & Apple
Grouse & Whinberry
FRESH FISH
RG Seafoods is a Husband and Wife run business based in Southeast Cornwall. Their fish fillets usually range from 100g to 400g depending on the season. Their fresh fish is delivered throughout the week.
Salmon fillet @ £25.00kg
Sea bass fillet @ £31.50kg
Scallops @ £42.00kg
Cod fillet @ £26.50kg
Plaice fillet @ £21.50kg
Smoked Haddock @ 24.30kg
Tuna Loin Steaks @ 30.50kg
Prawns @10.95kg
Hake @ 25.50kg
Samphire @ £2.10 per 100g
Using Norwegian techniques, Macneils Smokehouse produce a selection of smoked fish.
Smoked Salmon @ £8.30 per 100g pack
Smoked Haddock @ £8.99 per fillet
Smoked Mackerel @ £5.30 per pack
Smoked Garlic @ £0.95 each
TINNED FISH
Utilising the coasts around Britain, Rockfish, a Brixham- based seafood company, catch and tin their fish at peak freshness. Their zero-waste supply chain and MSC certification show their commitment to sustainable fishing.
British Mackerel @ £6.95 a 120g tin
Cantabrian Tuna in Olive Oil @ £6.95 a 120g tin
Mount Bay Sardines @ £5.95 a 120g tin
PETER COOKS BREAD
Delivered fresh everyday (except Mondays), we offer bread from Peter Cooks Bread.
Loaves Tin Shape
Small £2.95 Large £3.95
Ledbury Loaf
Malthouse Granary
Stoneground Wholemeal
Ryeful Loaf
Small £3.50
Sourdough
Malvern Sour
Small £3.50 Large £4.50
Demi Baguettes
£3.00 each
Ledbury
Malthouse Granary
Rolls
£0.90 each
Soft White Rolls 90g
Soft Hot Dog Rolls 90g
Focaccia
£3.95 Per Slice
Rosemary & Sea Salt
Red Onion & Cheddar
Sweet Bread
Sunshine Tea Loaf £4.50 each
Chelsea Buns £2.20 each
Pastries
Crossaint £2.95 each
Almond Crossaint £3.95 each
Pain Au Chocolat £3.10 each
CHARCUTERIE
Shropshire Salumi began as a hobby for Will Macken, producing handmade Salami. Will and now his brother Finn continue to create salami and cured meat.
Air dried Salami @ £8.50 per 180g pack
Classic Salami
Rosemary and garlic Salami
Fennel Salami
Chilli and Ale Salami
Hunter’s Salami
Chipotle & Stout Salami
Chorizo
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