Designations of origin in United Kingdom
United Kingdom has 23 designations of origin protected in the EU: 6 wines (4 PDO and 2 PGI) and 17 cheeses (10 PDO and 7 PGI). This page lists them with their type, the year of protection and the legal text of each in the European Commission’s eAmbrosia register.
In brief
The oldest on the list is “Swaledale ewes' cheese” (protected since 1994). 9 designations have been protected since 2010. For 23 of them the country’s interactive profile draws the production area on a map; PGI areas and some PDO areas are at the level of administrative units and may be larger than the real area.
PDO: closest link to the area (cheese: the whole process; wine: all the grapes). PGI: looser link (cheese: at least one stage; wine: at least 85% of the grapes).
Wines (6)
| Designation | Type | Protected since | Legal text |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darnibole | PDO | 2012 | Legal text |
| English | PDO | 2011 | Legal text |
| English Regional | PGI | 2011 | Legal text |
| Sussex | PDO | 2017 | – |
| Welsh | PDO | 2011 | Legal text |
| Welsh Regional | PGI | 2011 | Legal text |
Cheeses (17)
| Designation | Type | Protected since | Legal text |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beacon Fell traditional Lancashire cheese | PDO | 1996 | Legal text |
| Bonchester cheese | PDO | 1996 | Legal text |
| Buxton blue | PDO | 1996 | Legal text |
| Dorset Blue Cheese | PGI | 1995 | Legal text |
| Dovedale cheese | PDO | 1996 | Legal text |
| Exmoor Blue Cheese | PGI | 1995 | Legal text |
| Orkney Scottish Island Cheddar | PGI | 2011 | Legal text |
| Single Gloucester | PDO | 1996 | Legal text |
| Staffordshire Cheese | PDO | 2006 | Legal text |
| Swaledale cheese | PDO | 1996 | Legal text |
| Swaledale ewes' cheese | PDO | 1994 | Legal text |
| Teviotdale Cheese | PGI | 1998 | Legal text |
| Traditional Ayrshire Dunlop | PGI | 2011 | Legal text |
| Traditional Welsh Caerphilly / Traditional Welsh Caerffili | PGI | 2015 | Legal text |
| West Country farmhouse Cheddar cheese | PDO | 1996 | Legal text |
| White Stilton cheese / Blue Stilton cheese | PDO | 1996 | Legal text |
| Yorkshire Wensleydale | PGI | 2007 | Legal text |
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Source: European Commission, eAmbrosia (EU geographical indications register) · Licence: CC BY 4.0, © European Union · Register data as of 2026-11-02. Only what the register publishes; nothing is added. Methodology
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