This week is British Pie Week and chefs across the country have been competing for the prestigious title of Pub Pie Champion.

Sponsored by the ready made pastry company Jus Rol this years winner was Craig Hennessey at The Queen’s Head Inn, Cumbria with his spectacular Cumberland Tattie Pot.

Already an established favourite with pub customers the pie delighted the judges with its use of fresh ingredients sourced from local suppliers.

Herdwick Hogget, black pudding and Maris Piper potatoes combined under melt-in-the-mouth Jus Rol Shortcrust pastry made this pie an absolute winner.

Most of the canal side pubs you will discover on your Canal Boat Holiday serve food and it is more than likely that there will be pie on the menu.

There are many regional areas in the UK that are infamous for their cuisine such as the Melton Mowbray pork pie from the town with the same name in Leicestershire.

An Ingredient in pies served in Worcester may well be the counties famous Worcestershire sauce and a dash of this in the gravy is sure to add flavour.

Banbury is not only famous for the nursery rhyme Ride a cock horse to Banbury cross it is also renowned for the Banbury cakes a tea time treat made from fruit and pastry.

Cheshire cheese is said to acquired its flavour from the salt marshes throughout the county and this crumbly nutty cheese is a favourite ingredient for cheese pies.

More like a cake than a pie but worthy of a mention is the Eccles cake from the town of Eccles near Manchester.

First made commercially in 1793 by James Birch in his bakers shop in Eccles the recipe was probably based on one by Mrs Elizabeth Raffald in her cookery book of 1769.