Rather interesting Southwell facts
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Did you know Bramley apples were first produced here in Southwell - from a tree in the house of a Mr Bramley? Bramley was a butcher who bought a house there in 1846, its garden containing a tree grown by previous occupant Mary Brailsford. A nurseryman called Merryweather commercialised the variety from that single tree, naming it Bramley at the butcher’s insistence. Justice would have us call it the Brailsford.
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