{"id":76,"date":"2015-02-13T14:09:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T14:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irara.org.uk\/?p=76"},"modified":"2015-02-22T18:04:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T18:04:46","slug":"exactly-how-rare-are-ancient-orchards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irara.org.uk\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Exactly how rare are ancient orchards?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irara.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_4073.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-80\" src=\"http:\/\/www.irara.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_4073.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4073\" width=\"945\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irara.org.uk\/httpdocs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_4073.jpg 945w, https:\/\/www.irara.org.uk\/httpdocs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_4073-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are very few ancient orchards around. As far as we know (through information gleaned from several sources including the Orchard Network which has a register of all urban orchards in England) There are 4 traditional urban orchards left in Essex. None of the others appear to be\u00a0ancient orchards, so the Irvine Road Orchard is probably unique.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no doubt that it is a special place and it would be a tragedy if it were lost simply to make a fast buck for some ruthless property developer.<\/p>\n<p>Let the Colchester Borough Council Planning Department know what you think, email them at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:planning.policy@colchester.gov.uk\">planning.policy@colchester.gov.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orchardnetwork.org.uk\">www.<b>orchardnetwork<\/b>.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are very few ancient orchards around. As far as we know (through information gleaned from several sources including the Orchard Network which has a register of all urban orchards in England) There are 4 traditional urban orchards left in Essex. None of the others appear to be\u00a0ancient orchards, so the Irvine Road Orchard is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irara.org.uk\/?p=76\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exactly how rare are ancient orchards?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.irara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/www.irara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}