Jane Bowyer
Founder and cheesemaker
Established Cheesemakers of Canterbury in 2007 after more than 20 years in the dairy business.
Cheesemakers of Canterbury
Cheesemakers of Canterbury is an artisan creamery at Lamberhurst Farm in Dargate, Kent, making Ashmore Farmhouse and other cheeses by hand from unpasteurised local Friesian and goat milk.
Cheesemakers of Canterbury is a small artisan creamery at Lamberhurst Farm in Dargate, near Faversham in Kent.
Jane Bowyer founded the business in 2007 after more than twenty years in the dairy trade, refurbishing the old dairy at the farm and making the first Ashmore Farmhouse cheddars that May. The recipe came from a retiring cheesemaking couple in Wiltshire, and every batch is still made by hand in the traditional way.
The Ashmore cheeses are made from the unpasteurised milk of British Friesian cows, collected in the dairy's own tanker from nearby Debden Farm in Petham, and Kelly's Canterbury Goat is a hard goat's cheese made with local milk from Ellie's Dairy in Wychling. A growing range of soft cow's, goat's and sheep's cheeses sits alongside them. The cheeses are sold through the online shop, at The Goods Shed in Canterbury, and at open days held at the Dargate dairy.
What they sell
- Raw milk cheese
- Ashmore cheddar
- Goat cheese
- Sheep cheese
- Soft cheeses
Plan your visit
- You can visit in person
- Delivers locally
Meet the farm team
From the community
5.0
From 8 Google reviews
9 October 2025
Lovely people, 👍👍
18 August 2025
Great cheeses - better camembert than the imported French ones, industrial and bland. They do nice goaty cheeses, and a cowslip butter (bit of an acquired taste that). All sold at BLEAN FARM SHOP if you prefer to stay north of Canterbury.
28 February 2025
Very nice little working cheese makers with a range of local produce. Also sells sausages, preserves but mainly... Cheese!
