A cracking place for crumbly cheese

Breathe in the fresh air of the Yorkshire Dales. Dewy mornings, grazing sheep, miles and miles of dry stone walls and of course, the big cheese itself. Wallace & Gromit fans will be very familiar with this bit of the Dales, Wensleydale, and its cheese of the same name. The animated duo's famous affinity for the local delicacy - which Wallace likes because producers thought it made his face look 'nice and toothy' - helped boost interest in Wensleydale, which up until the early 1990s had seen a fall in sales. Upper Wensleydale’s main town, Hawes, is home to the Wensleydale Creamery, which makes about 4,000 tonnes of the famous cheese annually.
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