Orchards, Trees & Orchard Produce

Some Yorkshire Fruit

Yorkshire Beauty

Dessert Apples
Acklam Russet from village of Acklam, recorded in 1768. Fillingham Pippin thought to have been raised by Mr Fillingham, who was a carter between Swanland and Hull. Popular in the East Riding in the 1940s, can be propogated from putting branches / cuttings in the ground. Ribston Pippin (left) boasts the highest vitamin C content of any apple, discovered in the gardens at Ribston Hall near Knaresborough, thought to have grown from a pip from Rouen and planted in about 1707. One of the most richly-flavoured apples, crisp, juicy and aromatic, olive-green, flushed with orange-brown & striped with scarlet. Sharleston Pippin from Sharleston village near Wakefield.

Cooking Apples
Cockpit recorded in 1831, cooks to a puree. Yorkshire Greening / Yorkshire Goosesauce recorded in 1803 though older, as listed in 1769 by nurseryman William Perfect in Pontefract, cooks to a sharp puree.

Other Apples
Flowery Town, Green Balsam, Hunt House, Nursery Asses. Syke House Russet / English Hospital Reinette rediscovered by the RHS Northern Fruit Group in the Millennium Survey for the Whitby area in 2000.

Pears
Hessle cooking pear.

Plums
Winesour, Wyedale.

This list was compiled using many sources including The New Book of Apples by Joan Morgan and Alison Richards (Ebury Press 2002).

The Northern Fruit Group have produced a list of varieties that they have found grow well in the North of England. Contact the Secretary, Simon Clark on scclark [at] santiago. u-net. com

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