Bramley orchard in Wisbech
The first large scale commercial plantings of Bramley’s Seedling apple trees took place in the 1890s on a farm at Loddington, outside Maidstone in Kent, a time when the foundations of our modern fruit industry were being laid. Thousands of apple trees were planted all over the country, old orchards rejuvenated and areas that had previously not grown fruit to any extent invested in orchards. These included East Anglia and the Wisbech area where Bramley apple trees planted around the early 1900s continue to crop. Now monuments to Bramley’s long popularity, Bob Lever has given us an account of these giants and the particular way in which the trees are pruned on our main web-site. You can also read about the Wisbech orchards in an account by Mark Shirley on his Rockingham Forest Cider blog: here
We would love to have news of veteran Bramley’s still fruiting around the country; there must be hundreds?
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