Pick-Your-Own and Apple Scrumping Day at West Bradley Orchards

For a chance to see the Best Cider Orchard in the South West (Bath & West Society Award 2013) do come to West Bradley (BA6 8LT) on weekends in September, when the orchards will be open for Pick-Your-Own apples and pears.                 

Many of the varieties are unavailable in supermarkets, such as Charles Ross, Egremont Russet, Jonagold, Ashmead’s Kernel, Orleans Reinette, Kidd’s Orange, Worcester Pearmain as well as Bramley and Cox.

The orchards will be open for PYO on weekends only from Friday 6 Sept through to Sunday 29 Sept and on Sunday 15 Sept for Apple Scrumping Day when you can pick apples and make your own juice from them.

If the weather is good bring a picnic!

Biggest walnut harvest ever at West Bradley

You may not know it but West Bradley Orchards is the only commercial producer of walnuts for pickling in the country. Most pickled walnuts - a Christmas delicacy - are harvested in mainland Europe.

Yet another feather in the cap of these prize-winning and innovative orchards owned by 

Edward Clifton-Brown. Thanks go to the gallant team of young pickers who have worked tirelessly through the heatwave to bring in a bumper crop accelerated by the warm weather.

The fruits are picked green, before the nuts inside have a chance to develop, and then brined and packaged ready for Christmas.