Cheddar Wood is one of only a few English stations for Starved Wood-sedge ( Carex depauperata ).

Canadian Cheddar cheese is produced mostly by a number of large companies in Ontario, though other provinces produce some and there are some smaller artisanal producers.

The diagnostic tools are trapezoidal backed blades called Cheddar points and variant forms known as Creswell points as well as smaller bladelets.

There is also a series of smaller Holly, Amy, and Carrie figures ; each of these figures arrives with a farm animal ( Holly has a dog named Doodles, Amy has a pig named Cheddar, and Carrie has a cat named Bonnett ).

The township also contains the smaller communities of Cheddar ( ghost town ), Cope Falls, Deer Lake, Dyno Estates, Essonville, Harcourt, Highland Grove, Hotspur, Ironsides, Maxwells, Pusey, South Wilberforce, Tory Hill, Upper Paudash, Ursa and Ward.

A ploughman's lunch ( often just called a ploughman's ) is a cold snack or meal originating in the United Kingdom, served in pubs, sometimes eaten in a sandwich form, composed of cheese ( usually a thick piece of Cheddar, Stilton or other local cheese ); often cooked ham slices, pickle ( often Branston pickle, or any similar relish or chutney ), apples, pickled onions, salad leaves, bread ( especially crusty bread, which may be a chunk from a loaf or a cob ); and butter.

Provel is a trademark for three cheeses fused to form one ( provolone, Swiss, and white Cheddar ), used instead of ( or, rarely, in addition to ) the mozzarella or provolone common to other styles of pizza.

The gorge is part of a Site of Special Scientific Interest now called Cheddar Complex.

There is evidence of occupation from the Neolithic period in Cheddar.

Cheddar was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Ceder, meaning " Shear Water ", from the Old English scear and Celtic dwr.

While Axbridge grew in importance as a centre for cloth manufacturing in the Tudor period and gained a charter from King John, Cheddar remained a more dispersed mining and dairy-farming village.

The reservoir is supplied with water taken from the Cheddar Yeo, which rises in Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge and is a tributary of the River Axe.

Batts Combe Quarry from the lookout tower above Cheddar Gorge

A First Somerset and Avon bus picks up passengers at the Market cross on service 126 from Weston-super-Mare to Wells, the principal bus service through Cheddar

Sections of the now-disused railway have been opened as the Strawberry Line Trail, which currently runs from Yatton to Cheddar.

Fairlands takes children moving up from Cheddar First School as well as other first schools in the Cheddar Valley.

The name " Cheddar cheese " is widely used and has no Protected Designation of Origin ( PDO ) within the European Union, but only Cheddar produced from local milk within four counties of South West England may use the name " West Country Farmhouse Cheddar.

The cheese originates from the village of Cheddar in Somerset, South West England.

The name " Cheddar " is not protected by the European Union, though the name " West Country Farmhouse Cheddar " has an EU Protected Designation of Origin, and may only be produced in Somerset, Devon, Dorset, and Cornwall, using milk sourced from those counties.

Cheddar cheese from Bravo Farms, Traver, California

The line was extended to Wells in 1862 and later connected to the Cheddar Valley line branch of the Bristol and Exeter Railway from Yatton to Wells via Cheddar.

During warmer periods the water flowed underground through the permeable limestone, creating the caves and leaving the gorge dry, so that today much of the gorge has no river until the underground Cheddar Yeo river emerges in the lower part from Gough's Cave.

View of Cheddar Village, Cheddar Reservoir | reservoir, Batts Combe quarry and gorge taken from the watchtower at the top of Jacob's Ladder

Schools ( those which are not independent ) in Sedgemoor are operated the Children & Young People's Directorate of Somerset County Council, although some such as The Kings of Wessex School in Cheddar have distanced themselves from the county council by opting for foundation status.

The first is ' the stone pit ' from the Celtic meyn and dyppa in reference to the collapsed cave systems of Cheddar.

Vermont has three creameries that produce what is regarded as first-class Cheddar: the Cabot Creamery, which produces the sixteen-month-old Private Stock Cheddar ; the Grafton Village Company ; and Shelburne Farms.

The chest tomb in the chancel is believed to contain the remains of Sir Thomas Cheddar and is dated 1442.

The next human remains found in Britain, of Cheddar Man, are much younger and separated by the period of the Ice Age.

Cheddar Man is the name given to the remains of a human male found in Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge.

* The remains of " Cheddar Man " are found within Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Britain ’ s oldest complete human skeleton, dating to approximately 7150 BCE.

Cheddar Man is the name given to the remains of a human male found in Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, England.

The death of Cheddar Man remains a mystery.

Cheddar Man was determined to have belonged to Haplogroup U5, a branch of mitochondrial haplogroup U, which has also been found in other Mesolithic human remains.

In 1999, he appeared in series 6, episode 4 of Time Team, an episode based on the excavation of a cave in the Cheddar Gorge, an area of England owned by Lord Bath.

It was granted a Royal Charter in 1202, when King John sold most of the royal manor of Cheddar to the Bishop of Bath and Wells.

There was a royal palace at Cheddar, which was used at times in the 10th century to host the Witenagemot, and there is likely to have been a " central place " at Somerton, Bath, Glastonbury and Frome since the kings visited them.

Tourism is a major source of employment along the coast, and in Bath and Cheddar for example.

Tyning is a name-element occurring commonly in north-east Somerset, England-most of all in the Bath area, though also as far as Cheddar in the south-west, and over the borders into Wiltshire and Gloucestershire.

Cheddar cheese traditionally had to be made within of Wells Cathedral.

There are also plans to build a new Junction ( 21A ) with the A38, which would give quicker access to Cheddar and Wells.

Other branches followed, to Cheddar / Wells ( 1869 )

*' Stoke Red ' is from Rodney Stoke, between Cheddar and Wells ;

Prior to the Beeching Axe, the railway ran from Witham to Wells, meeting both the Cheddar Valley line and Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway at the latter station.

In 1878, the GWR joined the East Somerset line with the Cheddar Valley line to Wells, which had been built by the Bristol and Exeter Railway, by obtaining running rights over a section of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway and running its trains through the S & DJR Wells station at Priory Road, though GWR trains did not stop at Priory Road until 1934.

The nearest railway station is in the nearby village of Yatton, although Congresbury once had its own railway station on the Cheddar Valley Line from Yatton to Wells.

This was the Cheddar Valley line, also known as The Strawberry Line, which ran from Yatton to Wells via Cheddar.