Now the largest company, with a staff of 224 (spring 2018) and visited by 250,000 people each year, the Wensleydale Creamery Centre closed down in 1992; at that time, it was owned by Dairy Crest. Within six months, the former management team acquired the creamery and reopened it. The operation moved to its current location in 2015 and still handcrafts the eponymous cheese using traditional recipes following those first done by French monks in the 12th century. (Cheese has been made in this village since about 1150.) Wensleydale Creamery has won many prestigious cheese awards, including "Supreme Champion" in 2018 for its new Yorkshire Cheddar at The Great Yorkshire Show’s Cheese and Dairy Show. Yorkshire Wensleydale took the "Reserve Supreme" Cheese title. The company also received ten other trophies.