Community Orchards

Broombriggs Farm & Windmill Hill

Beacon Hill, Woodhouse Eaves LE12 8SR
https://www.leicscountryparks.org.uk/broombriggs-farm-windmill-hill/

Community Orchard partnership.  Villages of Woodhouse and Woodhouse Eaves. 40 trees - apples, pears, plums, damsoms & cherries. Planting started 2014. 2015 & 2016 adverts for apple pressing days (including take your own apples to press) Runs with volunteers, open to visit as part of the site, car parking charges.

Castle Hill Country Park

Cropston Road, Anstey LE7 7BQ
c/o Astill Lodge Road, Leicester LE4 1ED
0116 454 1003

Historic orchard could date back to 1250, likely to have been mixed fruit - apples, pears, cherries, damsons, medlars, quince, vines, nuts. New orchard started 2005 as partnership betweek Parks Services and Leicester Swadhyay Pariwar. Community planting - cherries, variety of apples, quince, medlars, plum and hazel.

Fruit Routes

University Lodge, University Road, Loughborough LE11 3UQ
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/services/sustainability/campaigns/fruit-routes/

Fruit Routes is a unique project and art installation made up of over 150 trees providing an enriched habitat for people, plants, insects and animals, as well as a location for cultural activities and outdoor learning. The project has become a great example of a Living Lab project with partnerships in the Design School, School of the Arts and Architecture Schools.

Manor Farm

Bagworth, Coalville LE67 1DN
https://www.nationalforest.org/visit/activities/manor-farm-bagworth

Community Orchard in the western section of the farm - apples, pears, filberts and two walnut trees.

Nanpantan Victorian Walled Garden

Nanpantan Hall, Loughborough

Practical volunteer days and history group - HLF funding for research.

Ratby Community Orchard

The National Forest

A community project in the National Forest.

Shuttlewood Clarke

Ulverscroft Grange, Whitwick Road, Copt Oak LE67 9QB
01530 244914
https://www.shuttlewood-clarke.org

'Grow with Us' Project - volunteers and young people. Have allotment plots, greenhouse and enhance the original orchards.