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Evansdale Cheese

Cheese Factory and Shop

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ5415985 ↗
Source-derived summary

Evansdale Cheese Factory is a small New Zealand producer of handmade cheeses, located at Hawksbury in Otago, about 35 km north of Dunedin on State Highway 1. It takes its name from its original location at Evansdale, which lies 15 km north of Dunedin at the foot of the Kilmog.

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The public source identifies “Evansdale Cheese” as cheese Factory and Shop. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Evansdale, Cheese and Factory.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 50-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Evansdale, Cheese and Factory providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Evansdale Cheese”, the useful work is to connect “cheese Factory and Shop” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5415985. Authority coordinates are -45.617, 170.639. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Evansdale Cheese” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.