7. Hellens

11am – 5pm

Entry to Hellens site £2.50 (children free). 

A Feast of Apples – displays of apples, cider fruit and perry pears; tastings of dessert and culinary fruit.

Sales of less usual varieties of apples, apple juice and cider,  apple trees (Saturday);

Tools for Self Reliance Cymru; Herefordshire Wildlife Trust; Herefordshire Beekeepers, Willy’s ACV (Saturday).

Fun Big Apple competition (Sunday) – see below for details and entry form.

The National Fruit Show Education Team will be tickling taste buds with an apple challenge (including not only apples but other products made with fruit), amazing with apple facts and inspiring everyone to try five a day the British way.

Explore the gardens (https://hellensmanor.com/the-gardens/hellens-garden-map/).

Tours of Hellens Tudor Manor house bookable direct at https://hellensmanor.com/events/.

Refreshments available.

Big Apple Competition 2023Big Apple Competition

Take part in a fun competition for all ages.

You can create piece of artwork, cook or bake something using apples or design a table-top display featuring apples.

Entries will be judged and displayed on Sunday 15th October.

If you would like to enter, please download and print the entry form using the link below and return it to the address on the form by Friday 13th October.

Competition Entry form

 Well-behaved dogs on leads (outside areas only).

Toilets availableToilet facilities including accessible toilet.

Parking available Ample car parking

Entry Fee to Hellens


The entry to Hellens is £2.50 per day collected at the gate - keep your entry ticket for free re-admission for the rest of the day.  Children free.  We charge an entry fee to Hellens for two reasons:

1. The Big Apple Association directly organises many of the activities at Hellens so has the associated costs.

2. The fee also goes towards paying the costs of the entire Harvestime event. As collecting entry fees at all venues is impractical we hope you will see this as a pragmatic solution to covering our organisational costs.

Thank you for supporting The Big Apple Association.

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