[4] After the formation of Unigate in 1959, further afield there were creameries in Dorrington, Shropshire, Great Torrington in north-west Devon, and St Erth (former United Dairies) in west Cornwall.

The site competed at the Royal Dairy Show in London, and the International Cheese Awards at Acton, Cheshire.

[5] Under Dairy Crest Foods, other creameries were at Sturminster Newton, which closed in 2000; and at Cannington, Somerset, which now makes yoghurt for Yeo Valley; Aspatria Creamery, which now makes Lake District Cheddar, by First Milk; and a site at Ellesmere, Shropshire, which made Cheshire cheese until 1987; the area around North Shropshire is also a main dairy industry supplier, with St Ivel making cheese at Whitchurch, Shropshire.

By the late 1980s Dairy Crest Foods made a quarter of all the cheese eaten in the UK.

[6] The site was bought by the Milk Marketing Board in 1979; in 1980 the processing division was divested as the new company Dairy Crest.

In 1993 Dairy Crest decided to make Davidstow its main cheese manufacturing site, and invest £6m.

[14] The cheese is taken from Davidstow to the national distribution centre at Nuneaton in north-east Warwickshire, where it is stored for 12 months to mature.