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The most northerly productive commercial vineyard is LEVENTHORPE near LEEDS, although RYEDALE
and YORKSHIRE HEART are set to overtake it whhen they bring in their first crop- probably in 2009.
The most northerly productive vineyard (non-commercial in England is at CARNFORTH in Lancashire. There is a poly-tunnel vineyard north of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides.(See Details)
Strawberry Hill,(Gloucs) Worthenbury (Wrexham) and Beenleigh (Devon) grow commercial vines under glass or polytunnels
Parts of Mersea Island vineyard in Essex are below sea level
Ickworth (Essex) and Croft Castle (Herefordshire) are vineyards in National Trust properties
Denbies (Surrey) is the largest single site vineyard, although Nyetimber (several sites) appraoches
it in total hectareage.
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George Bowden at his Leventhorpe Winery near Leeds |
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Adgestone (Isle of Wight) is probably the oldest of the surviving commercial sites, having first been
planted in 1968
Chevelswarde (Leics) is the oldest organic winery. Sedlescombe(Sussex),Wernddu (Wales)
and Davenport (Sussex and Kent) are also organic
Lancashire,Cheshire,Durham and Cumbria have no commercial vineyards. Durham used
to have one at Whitworth Hall, and, although it still exists, it no longer produces wine.
Carden Park in Cheshire is being revived after being abandoned for many years.
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