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Extract from the Hawes Travel Guides:
HAWES
- from the Anglo-Saxon
haus
, a mountain pass - is head of Wensleydale in all respects: it is its chief town, main hiking centre, and home to its tourism, cheese and rope-making industries. The cheese trail invariably leads to the
Wensleydale Creamery
on Gayle Lane (Mon-Sat 9.30am-5pm, Sun 10am-4.30pm; 2), a few hundred yards (signposted) south of the centre. The first cheese in Wensleydale was made by medieval Cistercian monks from ewes' milk, and after the Dissolution local farmers made a version from cows' milk which, by the 1840s, was being marketed as "Wensleydale" cheese. The Creamer...
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