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Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Lord Derby Spur Type

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

Originated at the Hilltop Fruit Farm, Ledbury, Herefordshire on trees planted in 1968. Trees are of a spur type habit. Fruits are rather coarse-textured, somewhat dry and with a subacid flavour. Cooks well.

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

Lord Derby Spur Type United Kingdom
- Sport of Catshead United Kingdom, 1600s
  - Parent Keswick Codlin United Kingdom, by 1793
  - Parent Hawthornden United Kingdom, by 1780

Where Lord Derby Spur Type came from.

Sources

Lord Derby Spur Type (accession 1969 - 041), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (late september).