In partnership with Peter’s Yard petersyard.com - Wensleydale is one of Britain’s famous territorial cheeses – made and eaten in Yorkshire for centuries. However, it’s had a troubled history and come close to extinction a number of times. Excitingly, though, recent years have seen a new farmhouse Wensleydales being made in the Yorkshire Dales. To learn about the story of Wensleydale, we talk to Andy Swinscoe of The Courtyard Dairy in Yorkshire, David Lockwood, Managing Director of Neal’s Yard Dairy and Ben Spence of the Curlew Dairy, who together with his wife Sam, is making a farmhouse Wensleydale called Yoredale in the town of Wensley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices