Stilton, a village of 650 inhabitants in the north of Huntingdonshire, 6 miles SW. of Peterborough. It gives name to the well-known Cheese (q.v., p. 142), most of which now is of course manufactured elsewhere.
Stilton
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 731
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