Community Orchard

The community chose the fruit trees carefully to reflect the heritage of the area.

Bryanston Gage (Dessert Apple)

Use: Dessert Apple
Flavour: Excellent gage flavour
Origin: Blandford, Dorset, 1800
Flower Period: 3
Picking Season: Mid September

Morgan Sweet (Eating)

Use: Cider/dessert
Flavour: Sweet
Origin: Somerset 18th C
Flower Period: 3
Picking Season: Early
Storage: N/a
Disease Resistance: Very resistant to scab

Warrior (Cooking Apple)

Use: Dessert/Culinary
Flavour: Sweet
Origin: Dorset 18th or 19th C
Flower Period: Early to mid
Picking Season: Early/second early
Storage: No
Disease Resistance: Very resistant to scab

Ashmeads Kernel (Eating)

Use: Eating
Flavour: Peardrop
Origin: Dorset 1700
Flower Period: Early to mid
Picking Season: Early/second early
Disease Resistance: Very resistant to scab

Old Somerset Russet (Eating Apple)

Use: Dessert
Flavour: Brisk with good pineapple flavour
Origin: Somerset 19th Century or Berks 1949
Flower Period: 5
Picking Season: Late/very late
Storage: To Dec/Jan
Disease Resistance: Scab resistant

Nine Square

Use: Dessert/Culinary
Flavour: Sweet
Origin: West of England before 1824 OR Hereford
Flower Period: 4
Picking Season: Mid to late
Storage: To Dec
Disease Resistance: Very resistant to scab

Clapps Favorite Pear

Use: Eating pear
Flavour: Sweet
Origin: Early 1800
Flower Period: Early
Picking Season: Mid

Profit (Cooking Apple)

Use: Cooking Apple
Flavour: Sweet
Origin: Early 1800
Flower Period: Early
Picking Season: Mid

Conference Pear

Use: Eating pear
Flavour: Sweet
Origin: Sawbridgeworth Early 1884
Flower Period: Early

Picking Season: Mid

Victoria Plum (Willis Clove)

Merryweather Damson

Use: Damson / Plum
Flavour: Sweet
Origin: Southwell 1907
Flower Period: Mid season

Cobnut Kent Cob

Use: Cultivated Nut
Flavour: Sweet
Origin: 1830
Flower Period: Early

Picking Season: Mid

Cobnut Cosford Cob

Use: Cultivated Nut
Flavour: Sweet
Origin: 1830
Flower Period: Early

Picking Season: Mid