Once called “A Village in an Orchard”, Upton Snodsbury was famous for hundreds of years for it’s orchards. Apple, pear, damson and plum trees proliferated and supplied fruit, cider and produce for market as well as for home and the workers in the fields.

In 2006 it was decided to hold an Apple Fest in the village hall to help raise funds to build the Upton Snodsbury Parish Park on Cutts Roller Orchard. Although the field was named an orchard no fruit trees had grown there for a long time. Apple Fest was later renamed Apple Day to fit in with the Common Ground Apple Day celebrations around the country.

This celebration was a great success. People from the community joined in with the apple picking in the parish orchards in preparation for Apple Day which were found to be very enjoyable events in their own right.

On 14th Oct 2006 the Apple Day celebration was held in the Village Hall. Foxes Border Morris Dancers performed the "Upton Snodsbury Stick Dance" to great amusement. There was an “apple doctor” who identified strange apples and displayed over 20 local varieties. The apple refreshments were consumed in huge quantities, as were the hot pork and apple rolls, and Upton Snodsbury C of E First School supplied colourful apple art. The apple games helped everyone get sticky and wet (including apple bobbing, apple on a string, and longest peel) and the tremendous variety of apple based home produce was sold very quickly. The apple juice pressing was especially popular, with enthusiastic tasting of the juice from the various local apples.

The 2006 Apple Day was so successful that another Apple Day was held in 2007. 

Apple Day this year
17th October 2009