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Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Loddington

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it¹:

Said to have been brought by a niece of Robert Stone from Bath to Loddington, near Maidstone, Kent in about 1820. It was distributed by Robert Stone. Received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1877. Fruits have soft, a little coarse textured, juicy flesh with a subacid flavour.

Family tree

Offspring in the atlas

Stonecrop Canada, by 1927
Stonehenge Canada, by 1927
Stonetosh × McIntosh; Canada, 1909

Where Loddington came from.

Sources

Loddington (accession 2000 - 058), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (late september); the other names.