International Cheese Awards

Le International Cheese Awards (ICA) est une exposition et une compétition de fromages tenue chaque année dans le domaine de Dorfold à Acton, près de Nantwich au Royaume-Uni. Il s'agit du principal évènement du Royaume-Uni centré sur le fromage et est l'un des principaux de ce genre au monde. Organisé depuis 1897, l'évènement s'agrandit chaque année et accueille environ 3 700 compétiteurs du monde entier dans près de 260 catégories. L'ICA dure deux jours. Le premier jour est celui des compétitions et des ventes et est ouvert principalement aux participants issus de l’industrie fromagère et de la presse, tandis que le deuxième jour coïncide avec le festival agricole de Nantwich et du sud du Cheshire (Nantwich and South Cheshire Agricultural Show), et attire près de 40 000 visiteurs qui peuvent goûter des fromages et assister à l'annonce des vainqueurs des compétitions de la veille. L’International Cheese Awards est une activité de la société agricole de Nantwich (Nantwich Agricultural Society), une association caritative britannique.

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International Cheese Awards

The International Cheese Awards is an annual cheese show and competition. Until 2019, it was held at Dorfold Park near Nantwich, England. Held since 1897, the show attracts entries from around the world. In Nantwich, day one of the two-day event was the judging and trade day, attended primarily by industry participants and press, while day two was scheduled to coincide with the Nantwich and South Cheshire Agricultural Show, and attracted about 40,000 visitors to sample the wares and hear the announcements of the winners. The International Cheese Awards is an activity of the Nantwich Agricultural Society, a UK registered charity. In 2021 it was announced the Awards would be moving to the Staffordshire Show Grounds and would no longer be part of the Nantwich Show event.

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Dorfold Hall

Dorfold Hall (SJ635524) is a Grade I listed Jacobean mansion in Acton, Cheshire, England, considered by Nikolaus Pevsner to be one of the two finest Jacobean houses in the county. The present owners are the Roundells.

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Henhull

Henhull is a former civil parish, now in the parishes of Burland and Acton and Nantwich, in the unitary authority area of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, which lies to the north west of Nantwich. For administrative purposes, it was combined with adjacent civil parishes of Acton and Edleston to form a total area of 765 hectares (1890 acres). The parish was predominantly rural with scattered farms and houses and no large settlements. In 2019 a 1,100-house development called Kingsbourne was being built in the east of the parish as an extension to the town of Nantwich. Henhull civil parish also included the hamlets of Basin End, Bluestone, Welshmen's Green and part of Burford. Nearby villages include Acton and Rease Heath. According to the 2001 census, Henhull had a population of 71. At the 2011 Census the population remained less than 100. In 2017, there were 26 households in the civil parish.

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Nantwich Aqueduct

Nantwich Aqueduct is a navigable aqueduct in Acton in Cheshire, England, which carries the Shropshire Union Canal over the Chester to Nantwich road. Designed by Thomas Telford, it dates from around 1826 and is listed at grade II*.

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Malbank School and Sixth Form College

Malbank School is a comprehensive secondary school and sixth form in Nantwich, Cheshire with pupils of both sexes aged from 11 to 18.

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