Christmas Deliveries 2023

November 13, 2023

Christmas is coming and we have lots of lovely cheese waiting for you! Our delivery options for Christmas 2023 are: SEND ASAP (Normal Carrier Delivery) SEND CLOSER TO CHRISTMAS (We will despatch your order between 12 and 19 December and send you tracking) COLLECT AT THE MILK BAR (either Friday 15th OR Friday 22nd December) […]

New products for 2023

November 12, 2023

We have a number of new and updated products available for Christmas 2023…. Our Gift Hampers have a new style box – no need for wrapping! Our World Cheese Awards Hamper now includes 4 award-winning cheeses Cuddy’s Cave & Cranberry Biscuits – available online to buy separately for the first time NEW! Cheese & Biscuits […]

World Cheese Awards 2023

November 1, 2023

We are delighted that our Cuddy’s Cave cheese has been awarded a SILVER medal at the World Cheese Awards. The awards took place in Trondheim, Norway, where teams of three experts judged the cheeses on various characteristics – the rind and the body, the colour of the cheese and its texture and consistency, but most […]

Doddington wins three World Cheese Awards

November 8, 2022

At Doddington, we’ve won awards before… but it never gets any less exciting or humbling to be recognised for quality. Last week, our Dairy Manager James attended the World Cheese Awards, where we won THREE titles… Bronze (Admiral Collingwood) Silver (Doddington) Gold (Berwick Edge) The awards had 4,434 cheeses entered from 43 countries around the […]

We have a brand new cheese variety!

November 1, 2022

We’re delighted to announce the arrival of our EIGHTH variety of cheese. Hotspur – named after Sir Henry Percy – the eldest son of the 1st Earl of Northumberland – who was nicknamed Harry Hotspur. Harry was a Knight so fierce that it was thought that his spurs were on fire as he led his […]

Last orders Wednesday 9th December

December 7, 2020

Due to the overwhelming support of our our online cheese customers this year, our last order time will be 23:59 on Wednesday 9th December. Our cheese needs to be sent via our overnight carrier, and slots have filled up incredibly quickly. We’d like to thank everyone who has ordered and supported us during this very […]

Job Vacancy – Assistant Herdsperson

November 24, 2020

An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and conscientious assistant herdsperson to join the Doddington team to assist with the calf rearing and herd duties on our family run, progressive dairy unit in Northumberland. The herd of 340 cows are currently milked twice a day with plans in place to create a new infrastructure starting […]

Order your Christmas cheese NOW for delivery in December!

November 13, 2020

A little while ago we asked if our customers would like to order their cheese for Christmas in advance. The answer was YES! So, we’re delighted to announce that you can now order your cheese here on our website and choose any of the following options: Send by Carrier/Post ASAP Send by Carrier/Post after 16th […]

Isabelle Maxwell: Life on the farm during lockdown

June 13, 2020

My plan for this summer had been to finish my second-year university exams before coming home and working as a tour guide at Alnwick Castle. However, as we all know, this has been far from a normal summer. Instead of sitting my exams at university, they were taken from home.  And, at the same time […]

An Update from Doddington Dairy

May 27, 2020

The last few weeks have been very difficult for so many people.  We seem to be slowly moving out of lockdown, taking us away from what felt like the safer place of staying home. Yet that ‘safe place’ has caused huge difficulties for the economy and so many businesses, and probably will continue to do […]