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This is for apple cultivars that have originated in Great Britain or the United Kingdom, either if they are old natural cultivars or modern bred, which were developed in England or Britain. Pages in category "British apples"
A very old Russian variety, often planted at dachas. Apples are large, yellow-green and bracingly tart to eat out of hand, but superb for cooking, as they keep their shape. Width 55–70 mm (2.2–2.8 in), height 55–70 mm (2.2–2.8 in). Stalk 10 mm (0.39 in).
By the 1960s the Long Ashton Research Station could locate only "a few very old trees" of Old Foxwhelp in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire. [3] However, the Gloucestershire Apple Collection did manage to secure cuttings for propagation from an orchard in Gloucestershire , which had been used by Long Ashton as a source of Foxwhelp propagating ...
Whole Bramley apples, cored and filled with dried fruit, baked, and served with custard is an inexpensive and traditional British dessert. Bramleys are also used for apple sauce . Regardless of the dish, Bramley apples are generally cooked in the same basic way.
James Grieve apples on tree. James Grieve is an old variety of apple.It gets its name from its breeder, James Grieve, who raised the apple from pollination of a Pott's Seedling or a Cox's Orange Pippin apple (most likely both [1]) in Edinburgh, Scotland some time before 1893.
Cox's Orange Pippin, in Britain often referred to simply as Cox, is an apple cultivar first grown in 1825 [citation needed] or 1830 [1] at Colnbrook in Buckinghamshire, England, by the retired brewer and horticulturist Richard Cox.
The Cambrian Journal (Vol. 111, 1858) contains a list of names for about 200 Welsh apples, [1] the majority of which were from the Monmouth area. In 1999 a single apple tree was identified by Ian Sturrock on Bardsey Island (located at the end of the Llŷn Peninsula in North Wales ).
The Norfolk Biffin is an apple variety grown over some three hundred years, often for drying to make 'biffins' [3] (viz., "a baked apple flattened in the form of a cake"). [ 2 ] The estate records for Mannington , Norfolk , dating from 1698, of Robert Walpole (later the first Prime Minister of Great Britain ) mention Norfolk Biffin apples which ...