There are also churches for Roman Catholic, Methodist and other denominations, including Cheddar Valley Community Church, who not only meet at The Kings of Wessex School on Sunday, but also have their own site on Tweentown for meeting during the week.

Cheddar is usually a deep to pale yellow ( off-white ) colour, but food colourings are sometimes used in industrial varieties of Cheddar style cheeses.

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.

Cheddar cheese is one of several products used by the United States Department of Agriculture to track the dairy industry ; reports are issued weekly detailing prices and production quantities.

Some cheeses called Cheddar are actually flavoured processed cheeses or cheese food, and often bear little resemblance to the original cheese.

Cheese fries are also served in many diners in the American Southwest ; in Texas, for example, they usually include at least one variety of grated Cheddar cheese, and are commonly served with ranch dressing and, sometimes, bacon, jalapenos and chives, whereas in New Mexico, the fries are typically served with green chili and cheese, creating a dish that combines two Southwest favorites, french fries and chile con queso.

However, it is not quite as suitable for toasting as are certain other cheeses, such as Cheddar.

There are about 350 officially graded rock climbing routes on the 27 cliffs that make up Cheddar Gorge, which are generally open to climbers between 1 October and 15 March each year.

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

Ritz Crackers in Canada are available in varieties such as Original, Low Salt, Reduced Fat, 100 % Whole Grain, and Cheddar.

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.

Some of the most popular cheeses are Cheddar and Wensleydale.

Other items that are special to Sonic's menu include Breakfast Toaster sandwiches ( made with Texas toast instead of the typical bun ), Cheddar Peppers, and new Flatmelts.

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

The frozen varieties are sometimes served casserole-style with a mixture of chopped ham, onions, peppers and Cheddar cheese or with an Italian-style mixture of ground beef, onions and tomato sauce.

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

Twenty eight sites producing Cheddar points are known in England and Wales though none have so far been found in Scotland or Ireland, regions which it is thought were not colonised by humans until later.

* In Philadelphia, pizza fries are topped with melted mozzarella and served with pizza sauce on the side, while " Mega Fries " are topped with Cheddar ( or sometimes Cheez Whiz ) and mozzarella cheese and bacon.

Cheddar, made in the classical way, tends to have a sharp, pungent flavour, often slightly earthy.

Its texture is firm, with farmhouse traditional Cheddar being slightly crumbly ; it should also, if mature, contain large crystals of calcium lactate – often precipitated when matured for times longer than six months.

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.

The term is often used by extension as a generic name for all semi-hard yellow cheeses such as the Swiss Emmental cheese, the Dutch Gouda and the British Cheddar, or anything that looks similar to the cașcaval.

In the past, it was made from a blend of cheeses, most often Colby and Cheddar.

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.

Cheddar Wood and the smaller Macall's Wood form a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest from what remains of the wood of the Bishops of Bath and Wells in the 13th century and of King Edmund the Magnificent's wood in the 10th.

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

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

The village gave its name to Cheddar cheese and has been a centre for strawberry growing, with the crop being transported on the Cheddar Valley line, which closed in the late 1960s but is now a cycle path.

The village gave its name to Cheddar cheese, which is the most popular type of cheese in the United Kingdom.

Cheddar cheese is a relatively hard, pale yellow to off-white ( unless artificially coloured ), and sometimes sharp-tasting, cheese.

Cheddar Gorge on the edge of the village contains a number of caves, which provided the ideal humidity and constant temperature for maturing the cheese.

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

Central to the modernisation and standardisation of Cheddar cheese was the nineteenth century Somerset dairyman Joseph Harding.

For his technical developments, promotion of dairy hygiene and unremunerated propagation of modern cheese-making techniques he has been described as the father of Cheddar cheese.

Harding stated that Cheddar cheese is " not made in the field, nor in the byre, nor even in the cow, it is made in the dairy ".

Joseph Harding's son, Henry Harding, was responsible for introducing Cheddar cheese production to Australia.

During World War II, and for nearly a decade after the war, most milk in Britain was used for the making of one single kind of cheese nicknamed " Government Cheddar " as part of war economies and rationing.

As with other hard cheese varieties produced worldwide, caves provide an ideal environment for maturing cheese ; still, today, some Cheddar cheese is matured in the caves at Wookey Hole and Cheddar Gorge.

Cheddar cheese maturing in the caves at Cheddar Gorge