Cheddar cheese · per kg · 1869 Estimated
This figure may be significantly off. It is projected back 45 years from the first recorded price, using general inflation. Items do not track inflation evenly — groceries in particular were far more expensive relative to other goods before modern agriculture, so a figure this old can understate the real price by two-fold or more. Use it for a sense of scale, not as a historical price.
7.8pin June 1869 — about £13.42 in today's money.
- Price in 18697.8p
- Same money today£13.42
- Estimated price today · projected from January 2025£9.05
- Change since 1869+11556%
Price history
Record & method
No price was recorded for 1869. This figure is estimated: we took the earliest observed price (January 1914) and moved it back along the category inflation curve — a back-cast of 45 years. The further back it reaches, the less it should be trusted. Treat it as an approximation, not a historical fact.
- Source
- Office for National Statistics (ONS), dataset MM23. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Series title
- RPI: Ave price - Cheese: cheddar type, per Kg
- Series
- CZNW
- Estimated for
- June 1869
- Coverage
- January 1914 – January 2025
- Adjusted by
- CDKO · 9.5 → 1643.1 (June 2026)
- Back-cast
- 45 years before the first record · very low confidence
- License
- Open Government Licence v3.0