Lyburn Farmhouse Cheesemakers.
Lyburn farm makes a variety of different hand made cheeses, all of which are made from our own cows milk. Although they are pressed, these artisan cheeses are not that close to cheddar cheese. They are, in general, a softer and a more continental type of cheese, with the exeption of Old Winchester and Old Smales. The Lyburn Gold, is where we start and details of this cheese and all the others can be found on the next page headed 'Cheeses'.

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Hampshire Hampers

Mike and Judy Smales.

Vacancy at Lyburn Cheese

Spinnaker Tower and Lyburn Cheese

Newlyns Farm Shop open new cookery school

Old Winchester continues to impress

Tour dates for 2008

New Recipe Page

New Cheesemaker for Lyburn

The Cheese Box
Dawn what a star
SALSA accreditation
Certificate.
www.salsafood.co.uk

DEFRA
and the forces of dark and evil

More prizes at the British Cheese Awards
Bronze for Winchester and Bronze for Old Winchester and Gold in the export class.


Lyburn Cows not Guilty

Milk prices
set for a very sharp rise.

Lyburn Cheese Stolen.

Farm History.
Lyburn farm lies on the northern edge of the New Forest, straddling the small river Blackwater, and has been farmed by the Smales family and Mike and Judy in particular for the last 38 years. The river Blackwater rises on some of the high ground of the forest and as the heather and gorse gives way, to the old ancient oak forest, home of the fallow deer, the countryside falls away sharply towards the north. In the bottom of the valley you will find the Hamptworth estate, of which Lyburn farm is part. The name Lyburn, is in fact quite unique, it is derived from the Scottish, lye 'born', and burn 'river', 'borne by the river', and with the Blackwater on either side we certainly are.

Nantwhich Cheese Show
More prizes for Old Winchester.

Bath and West 2007
Old Winchester has taken Reserve Championship.

Sir Alan Sugar wants quality English cheese.

Lyburn Gold goes to Japan

So the Food Standards Agency
Thinks cheese is a junk food!!!!!!!

Bath and West 2007
Old Winchester takes the Rowcliffe prize for Best Cheese in the Specialist Cheese Makers Class and then goes on to take Reserve Champion.

Stolen on 29th March 2007.
Any one who has any information, regarding our milk tanker, please call 01794 390451

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Point of sale posters.
Now available in A2 &A5
Phone 01794 390451

Farm Shop.
Shop opening times are Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 11-00pm until 4-30pm.

Hampshire Farmers Market Dates

The New Forest
The New Forest, has no great history of cheese making, unlike the west country. Traditionally, in the last 100 years, the milk from Hampshire, has always travelled eastwards to the large conurbations of Southampton and London, to be sold as bottled milk. Historically records show that cheese, will have been made by the Cistercian Monks at Beaulieu and other Monasteries, back in the 1200's. Cheese will also have been made on the various farmsteads in the last 500years, particularly those farms that are named 'White House Farm' as they will certainly have had connections with cheese.

The manors of Winchester, of which this area was part, including Downton, indicate that cheese was made locally, but not in large commercial quantities. So for the valley of the Blackwater, and Lyburn Farm, cheese making is a relatively new venture set up to address the needs of a changing market pla

This link will take you to the news page.

To e-mail or phone the cheesemaker type in this address, m.smales@farmline.com then type Lyburn Farm in the subject box to get past our anti spam.

or 01794 390451