Cox is highly regarded because of its excellent flavour, and often thought as the best-flavoured apple.
This English classic, the Cox's Orange Pippin was first raised in Slough, Buckinghamshire, by Richard Cox, a retired brewer, in about 1825.
With a best selling reputation and a wonderful complexity of flavours, farmers laboured to grow this high maintenance apple on a commercial basis.
Modern farming techniques rescued this variety from extinction in the 1920s, and it continues to occupy a special place in the heart of the British public.