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Cheshire cheese

cheese from Cheshire, England
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Cheshire cheese

Summary

Cheshire cheese ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (232 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Cheshire cheese is in the country of United Kingdom[2].
  • Cheshire is named after Cheshire cheese[3].
  • Cheshire cheese is made of cow's milk[4].
  • Cheshire cheese is a type of cow's-milk cheese[5].
  • Cheshire cheese is a type of British cheese[6].
  • Cheshire cheese's Commons category is recorded as Cheshire cheese[7].
  • Cheshire cheese's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[8].
  • Cheshire cheese's location of creation is recorded as Cheshire[9].
  • Cheshire cheese's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[10].
  • Cheshire cheese's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Cheshire Cheese'}[11].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include cow's-milk cheese[5] and British cheese[6].

Origins

Cheshire is named after Cheshire cheese[3].

Why It Matters

Cheshire cheese ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (232 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12]

Related Entities

United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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