Beyond Newport: Caerphilly Cheese Festival
Say Cheese & Keep on Truckling! The Caerphilly Cheese Festival, also known historically as The Big Cheese Festival, began in 1998 and has been celebrating the town’s namesake cheese—traditionally made to nourish local coal miners—ever since Set in the dramatic backdrop of Caerphilly Castle, one of Britain’s largest, the weekend-long free event grew to draw up to 80,000 visitors at its peak in 2012 Highlights have included vibrant street food markets, cheese stalls, craft vendors, re‑enactments of medieval life, live […]