The Creswellian is a British Upper Palaeolithic culture named after the type site of Creswell Crags in Derbyshire by Dorothy Garrod in 1926.

Garrod suggested that the British variant of the Magdalenian industry is different enough to create a specific name:[7] "I propose tentatively "Creswellian", since Creswell Crags is the station in which it is found in greatest abundance and variety."

Twenty eight sites producing Cheddar points are known in England and Wales though none have so far been found in Scotland or Ireland, regions which it is thought were not colonised by humans until later.

Some of the flint at Gough's Cave came from the Vale of Pewsey [citation needed] in Wiltshire whilst non-local seashells and amber from the North Sea coast also indicate a highly mobile population.

This matches evidence from the Magdelanian cultures elsewhere in Europe and may suggest that exchange of goods and the sending out of specialised expeditions seeking raw materials may have been practised.

[citation needed] Food species eaten by Creswellian hunters focused on the wild horse (Equus ferus) or the red deer (Cervus elaphus), probably depending on the season, although the Arctic hare, reindeer, mammoth, Saiga antelope, wild cow, brown bear, lynx, Arctic fox and wolf were also exploited.