Pages tagged England
Lindisfarne
A North Sea oyster from beds the Lindisfarne monks stocked in 1381, restarted in 1989 and run by the Sutherland family at Ross Farm.
Poole Harbour
England's largest Pacific oyster area. Othniel Oysters grows over 2 million a year on the harbour bed, from French triploid seed nursed on a converted ferry.
Portland Royal
Pacific oysters from the Fleet Lagoon behind Chesil Beach, finished for 7 to 12 months in Australian-style baskets beside the café that serves them.
Porthilly
The Marshall family's rock oyster from the Camel Estuary at Rock, opposite Padstow. About 800,000 a year, grown from 6 mm seed in cages on frames.
Colchester Native
The Colne's flat oyster, held by the borough of Colchester since 1189, celebrated at an annual feast, and now at the heart of England's largest native oyster restoration.
Fal Oyster
A wild flat oyster from the Fal and Truro rivers, dredged by hand from sailing and rowing boats, as the fishery has been worked for centuries.
Whitstable, Kent
A short train ride from London, a harbor town built on oysters: a 1793 fishermen's company, a protected name and five-year native oysters from the Kentish flats.
Richard Haward's
A Mersea Island family business in its eighth generation, selling native and rock oysters from the Blackwater creeks and a stall at Borough Market.
Whitstable Native
Kent's flat oyster: a 1793 fishermen's company, 80 million oysters a year to London at its peak, near-collapse in the twentieth century, and a PGI since 1997.