Earlier this year, the Georgian walled kitchen garden at Wortley Hall, the ‘workers’ stately home’ near Barnsley, had reached a crossroads.
Heeley City Farm, which had managed the garden since 2004, was undergoing a restructure and the Sheffield-based charity decided it could no longer run the project. For the volunteers who had tended the fruit and vegetable crops and run courses for the community, the potential loss of productivity for a site that had been under-used grassland before the charity’s restoration efforts 20 years ago was disastrous – and they resolved to take on Wortley Hall Walled Garden themselves.
The kitchen gardens, which were supplying exotic fruit and vegetables to the estate, then owned by the Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie family, by the early 19th century, are home to 40 different types of apple, including varieties specific to Yorkshire, and the range is far wider than that available in shops. There are also pear trees that are more than a century old. Two Belgian specimens are the only examples of their kind to be found in the north of England.
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