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cheddar (n.)
type of cheese, 1660s (but the cheese presumably was made long before that), from
Cheddar
, village in Somerset, England, where it originally was made, from Old English
Ceodre
(c.880), probably from
ceodor
"ravine" (there is a gorge nearby).