Bramley apple fans have been shocked to the core after the garden housing the original tree was sold.
Campaigners aimed to turn Bramley Cottage, which was owned by Nottingham Trent University since 2018, into a heritage site to honour the ancient tree.
But the garden in Southwell, Nottingham, has now been sold to owners of a neighbouring cottage, leaving fans of the very first Bramley apple tree ‘gobsmacked.’
The tree which is more than 200 years old, was planted by Mary Ann Brailsford in her parents’ garden on Church Street in the early 1800s.
Since then, millions of saplings have been grown from the
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