The Heritage Orchard Year: Book list and useful contacts

Books on Fruit Identification

The Book of Apples :
Joan Morgan and Alison Richards
ISBN 0 09 177759 3

Apples A Field Guide :
Michael Clark ISBN 1 873580 57 6

The Apple Book :
Rosanne Sanders ISBN 0 8022 2559 4
( Out of Print )

Apples A Guide to the Identification
of International Varieties :
John Bultitude
ISBN 0 295 96041 8 ( Out of Print )

A Somerset Pomona :
Liz Copas
The Dovecote Press (2001)

Books on Horticulture

The Grafter’s Handbook :
R.J. Garner ISBN 0 304 34274 2

The Apple Grower :
Michael Phillips ISBN 1 890132 04 7

Fruity Stories :
Joanna Readman ISBN 0 7522 1037 8

RHS Pruning :
Christopher Brickell ISBN 1 84000151 8

RHS Pruning & Training :
Christopher Brickell David Joyce
ISBN 0 7513 0207 4

Books on Cider and Juice

Cider and Juice Apples :
edited by R.R.Williams

Cider The Forgotten Miracle:
James Crowden ISBN 0 9537103 0 0

Real cidermaking on a small scale
Michael Pooley and John Lomax

Books on Research

Ordnance Survey Maps: A concise Guide
for Historians.
Richard Oliver. (Charles Close Soc. 1993)

The Historian's guide to Ordnance Survey Maps (London, 1964)
J.B. Harley and C.W. Phillip

Interpreting the Landscape
Michael Aston (1985 recently reprinted)

Doing Oral History : a practical guide
Donald A Ritchie OUP 2003

Dorset: A Photographic Atlas - CD ROM.
available from: The Environmental Services Directorate, Dorset County Council County Hall, Dorchester

Useful websites

Dorset Online Parish Clerk.
Census and records online
www.dorset-opc.com

www.local-history.co.uk
www.oldmaps.co.uk
www.familysearch.org
www.1837online.com

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Photographic credits:
Lujen Robins’s old cider shed, Shillingstone, © James and Roger Crowden

Tree Nurseries

Thornhayes
St Andrews Wood, Dulford, Cullompton,
Devon, EX15 2DF
Telephone: 01884 266746
www.thornhayes-nursery.co.uk

Scotts Nurseries,
Higher Street, Merriot, Somerset
TA16 5PL,
Telephone: 01460 72306

Cider Apple Trees Ltd
Kerian Corkscrew Lane,
Yeovil, Somerset BA22 7BP
Telephone: 01963441101

Equipment Suppliers

Vigo Limited
Dunkeswell Airfield
Dunkeswell, Honiton, Devon.
EX14 4LF
Telephone: 01404 890262
www.vigoltd.com

Research

Dorset History Centre
Bridport Road Dorchester
Tel: 01305 250550
www.dorset-cc.gov.uk/archives

Bridport Local History Centre
The Coach House Gundry Lane,
Bridport, Dorset
Telephone: 01308 458703

Somerset and Dorset Family History Soc.
West Dorset Branch:
2 Fairfax, Chideock, Dorset, DT6 6SB
Telephone; Colin Bowditch 01297 489567

Mill House Cider Museum.
Owermoigne Dorchester
Dorset DT2 8HZ.
Telephone Derek Whatmore :
01305 52220

Expert Advice

Brogdale Horticultural Trust
Brogdale Road, Faversham,Kent, ME13 8XZ
Email: info@brogdale.org

RHS Fruit Group: South West Secretary
S Harris, Holme Close, Western Road,
Holsworthy, Devon, EX22 6DH
www.rhs.org.uk

Orchard Links and
Dorset Community Orchards

National Orchard Forum
www.nat-orchard-forum.org.uk

Common Ground
Gold Hill House, 21 High Street,
Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7 8JE
Tel: 01747 850820
www.commonground.org.uk

Broad Oak Community Orchard
www.wildlifetrust.org.uk

Miller's Community Orchard
Charlton Down Community Orchard
Charminster.
Telephone: Mark Simons: 01305 224256

Burton's Community Orchard
Shillingstone.
Telephone: Jenny Whitelock:
01258 861229

The Donkey Field
Shaftesbury:
Telephone: Joe Hashman: 07731653711

Apple Project Teaching Orchard
Willy Tuck's Orchard Symondsbury
Telephone: Kim Squirrell 01308 420602

Dorset Roadside Fruit Trees in East Orchard, West Orchard, and Margaret Marsh

Funding

Leader+ CHALK and CHEESE is a funding initiative supporting sustainable development in Dorset's rural heartland. Projects must come from and involve the community that will benefit. Chalk and Cheese can approve projects up to the end of 2006, to focus on:
Local food
Arts and culture
Community
Tourism
Business support

www.chalkandcheese.org

Sarah Watson—Chalk and Cheese Programme Manager: Market Place, Sturminster House,
Sturminster Newton, Dorset, DT10 1AS
Telephone: 01258 474276

The Local Heritage Initiative is a national grant scheme that helps local groups to investigate, explain and care for their local landscape, landmarks, traditions and culture. If your group would like to create your own research project go to the LHI website to find out more.
www.lhi.org.uk

Stephanie Kruse—LHI Regional Adviser,
5th Floor, 1 Redcliff Street, Bristol,
BS1 6NP
Telephone: 0117 9102919
Fax: 0117 9102901

International Tree Council
Telephone: 08707744269
www.internationaltreefoundation.org

DEFRA Environmental Stewardship Scheme
Historic Landscapes
RESTORING OLD ORCHARDS
www.defra.gov.uk

FWAG Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group will give advice on DEFRA schemes.
Clare Buckerfield
Telephone: 01305 251742
Email dorset@fwag.org.uk