British Pie Week takes place every year on the first full week of March and was started back in 2007 by Jus-Rol.

If you want to swat up on your pie history here's a couple of facts from the British Pie Awards website

1. Our earliest reference to pies goes back to the Middle Ages. The poet Chaucer wrote a recipe for an apple pie in 1381 in old English.

2. In the hierarchical society of the Middle Ages, the lord of the manor seated at the top table would be served the prime cuts of meat such as venison.  The extremely lower orders or serfs seated on benches right at the back of the room would be served the entrails of the deer cooked with vegetables in a pie.  The offal of a deer is known as umble hence the term to eat ‘humble pie’, the word humble often erroneously replacing…