Errington make delicious farmhouse cheese in Lanarkshire.
The Errington family has been making cheese since the early 1980's from their own flock of Lacaune ewes.
In 2019 they bought some dairy goats and now make a selection of award-winning sheep and goats milk cheese including Corra Linn that won 'Best Scottish Cheese' at the World Cheese Awards in 2020, and their original Lanark Blue.
About Errington Cheese.
A small, family-run farm and cheese company started by Humphrey Errington in the early 1980’s.
They farm in Lanarkshire as extensively and naturally as possible, their sheep lamb early in the year and dry off at the end of August, they are fed on a grass based diet with the addition of parlour nuts during milking. The goats kid several times a year so they are able to produce goats milk cheese all year round.
When it all began.
The Erringtons moved from Dumfriesshire to Lanarkshire in 1981, running a mixed farming enterprise of beef cattle and sheep. Humphrey Errington started looking at ways of diversifying and became interested in sheep milking and ewes milk cheese because of the ancient tradition of this activity in the upper Clyde area, and because it offered the chance to add value to the farm product and be free of dependence on government subsidies.
Cheese making began in 1983 on a small scale and now the farming enterprise is geared to the need for ewes milk in order to keep up with the growing demand for the cheese. Because the sheep milking in the winter months is not a practical possibility in Scotland, in the late 1980s they began buying in cows milk to make cheese over the winter. This inaugurated the range of cows milk cheeses, still of traditional local types.