Edith Hiscox was born in 1903 in Somerset. She won a scholarship to a dairy college in Lancashire, where she learnt to make Cheddar and Caerphilly cheeses. Edith returned to Somerset and made cheese and butter on two farms in Pilton, a village near Glastonbury. She worked at Worthy Farm, Pilton, for a Mr Eavis. Worthy Farm is now the venue for Glastonbury Festival.
Somerset Voices: Edith Hiscox (b.1903)
March 31, 2009 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Somerset, Glastonbury, Edith Hiscox, Pilton, Eavis
