"BNPS.co.uk (01202 558833)<br /> Pic: PhilYeomans/BNPS<br /> <br /> Village sign.<br /> <br /> Cheesemakers from the village which gave world-famous Stilton its name have renewed hope of overturning a law which bans them from naming their product 'Stilton'.<br /> <br /> Villagers from Stilton in Cambridgeshire were cheesed off when in 1996 it was ruled that the  product could only be made in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.<br /> <br /> After years of kicking up a stink over the ""farcical"" decision an application was made to Defra to get the protected designation of origin (PDO) extended to Stilton village.<br /> <br /> It was promptly dismissed despite evidence purporting to show that cheese was made in the village as far back as Roman times.<br /> <br /> But now campaigners are mounting another attempt at convincing the grand fromages in Whitehall that their cheese deserves recognition under the Stilton name.<br /> <br /> They are taking their fight to Defra minister George Eustice in the hope that their efforts have not all been in vein.<br /> <br /> Local historian Richard Landy, who for five years has spearheaded the campaign, says new evidence proves it was produced in Stilton village.<br /> <br /> Mr Landy dug up a Roman cheese mould buried in a field in the village in 2006 and has since discovered network of underground cellars thought to have been used to mature cheese.<br /> <br /> A cheese recipe was also found in letter printed in a 1726 edition of General Treatise of Husbandry and Gardening adding further weight to his plight."
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