# The sweets named after places

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## Summary

Pontefract cakes, Everton mints, Kendal Mint Cake, Edinburgh rock, Hawick Balls and more: the British sweets named after the towns they come from.

## Description

Many of Britain's traditional sweets are named after the places that made them. Some are still made there, and some have become a badge of local pride, even for football clubs.
Yorkshire
Pontefract cakes. Small black liquorice discs from Pontefract, stamped with a castle. They began as medicine: see Pontefract cakes and the history of liquorice in PontefractHarrogate toffee. Created in the spa town in 1840 to take away the taste of the spa water, and still made by Farrah's of Harrogate: see Harrogate toffeeDoncaster butterscotch. The earliest records of butterscotch link it with Doncaster, and a tin was presented to Queen Victoria in 1851: see butterscotch
North west England
Everton toffee. Made in Everton village, now part of Liverpool, from the 18th century by Molly Bushell. It is why Everton Football Club are called the Toffees: see Everton toffeeEverton mints. Black and white striped mint humbugs from Liverpool, linked for over a century with the club and its Toffee Lady tradition: see Everton mintsBlackpool rock. Thick seaside rock with the town's name running through it: see Blackpool rockKendal Mint Cake. A peppermint sugar bar from Kendal in Cumbria, which went to the Antarctic and up Everest: see Kendal Mint Cake
The south of England
Brighton rock. The seaside rock of Brighton, which also gave its name to Graham Greene's 1938 novel: see Brighton rockDevon fudge. West Country fudge, often made with clotted cream: see Devon fudge
Scotland and the Borders
Edinburgh rock. A soft, crumbly stick sweet invented by Alexander Ferguson, known as Sweetie Sandy, and nothing like seaside rock: see Edinburgh rockHawick Balls. Minty, buttery boiled sweets from the Borders town of Hawick, linked with the rugby commentator Bill McLaren: see Hawick BallsJethart snails. Snail shaped peppermint sweets from Jedburgh, known locally as Jethart: see Jethart snailsMoffat toffee. A boiled sweet with a tangy centre, made in the town of Moffat: see Moffat toffeeBerwick cockles. White mints with red stripes, made since 1801 and named after Berwick upon Tweed, the English town on the Scottish border: see Berwick cockles
Named after somewhere further away
Some sweets carry the name of a country rather than a town. Turkish delight is one, and liquorice is still called Spanish in parts of northern England: see how sweets from abroad came to Britain and why is liquorice called Spanish?

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