Also known as Peewit Orchard. A plum orchard with mainly Yellow Egg and Victorias, and some Czar, Purple, Prolific, Monarch and one Black Prince. It is planted within an old and very wide ridge and furrow, trees planted at 5 x 5 yards.
Along Peewit Road, where the orchard is, are many market garden, once a very common site around the Vale. There are many other orchards down in this area, and most of them are known to be home to the rare beetle, the Noble Chafer.
Spotted and Bee orchids are known to be there. Slopes to the East. A wildlife hedge has been planted within the 9th row, on the south side.
It is leased by VLHT under the Evesham Custom. This is a system of transferring tenant’s rights on leased land. The tenant leaving the land has the right to nominate their successor. The new tenant pays the outgoing tenant a premium to cover the costs incurred by them – things like trees, or other perennial crops. The landlord is informed of the change, and if they want to take the land back, they would
