{"id":941759,"date":"2026-05-06T15:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/941759\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:05:15","slug":"group-hopes-to-raise-250000-to-save-original-bramley-apple-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/941759\/","title":{"rendered":"Group hopes to raise \u00a3250,000 to save original Bramley apple tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tree is believed to have been planted between 1809 and 1815 by Mary Ann Brailsford, who lived at the cottage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the apple&#8217;s unique character was not spotted for another 50 years until gardener Henry Merryweather took cuttings at a time the garden was owned by Matthew Bramley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As the seeds of an apple tree are not exact copies of the parent plant, all Bramleys are descendants of cuttings from this tree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Artist Dan Llywelyn-Hall, one of the founders of the MBF, said an effort had to be made to protect the tree, which had &#8220;endured two world wars, fed the nation and is the most famous apple in the world&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our ancient trees are not adequately protected in this country and the Bramley is testament to that &#8211; it does not have any tree protection whatsoever,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A new owner, whoever that may be, could come in and chop down the tree and face  no sanction and that would be the end of the story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And this is one of the top 50 trees in the country and we should be championing it and making it open access to the public.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tree is believed to have been planted between 1809 and 1815 by Mary Ann Brailsford, who lived&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-941759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116528252757082276","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}