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JULY 2018
F L I G H T D E TA I L S
Flybe has flights to Durham from
Jersey. Flybe’s franchise partner
Eastern Airways has flights to
Durham fromAberdeen. Flybe
has flights to Leeds Bradford
fromBelfast City, Düsseldorf and
Newquay. Flybe’s franchise partner
Eastern Airways has flights to
Leeds Bradford fromAberdeen
and Southampton. Flybe has
flights to Newcastle fromExeter,
Newquay and Southampton. Flybe
has flights to Newcastle from
Paris CDG, operated by Air France.
Flybe’s franchise partner Eastern
Airways has flights to Newcastle
fromAberdeen, Belfast City,
Cardiff and Isle of Man.
RHUBARB
Yorkshire is so famous for its rhubarb
production that a nine-square-mile
area of the county between Wakefield,
Leeds and Rothwell is known as the
Rhubarb Triangle. “If you listen carefully
enough you can actually hear the rhubarb
growing,” says seventh-generation
farmer Simon Dobson, who grows
and sells Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb at
Green End Farm and Rhubarb Triangle
Farm Shop in the village of Carlton near
Rothwell. “It became a feature in the area
in the early 1900s and forced rhubarb was
started in the 1920s. We still grow 170
acres of it and have four acres of forced
rhubarb in the forcing sheds.”
When rhubarb production was at
its peak just before the Second World
War, there were as many as 200
growers within the Rhubarb Triangle
who sent their crop by train to London
markets. Today, there are only a dozen
or so producers. Being a native plant
of Siberia, rhubarb thrives in West
Yorkshire’s cold, damp loamy soil.
Grown in the dark in forcing sheds to
keep the stems blanched and straight,
February is the main cropping season
when pickers traditionally pull the stalks
by candlelight as exposure to strong
light hinders their growth. The rhubarb
plant’s stems are boiled in sugar and
used for everything from crumbles and
jams to pies and compôtes.
In 2010, Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb
was awarded the status of ‘Protected
Designation Origin’ by the EU, placing it
alongside the likes of Melton Mowbray
pork pies, Parma ham and Champagne.
The Festival of Food, Drink & Rhubarb,
held in Wakefield city centre every
February, celebrates the area’s famous
rhubarb heritage and helps promote
the surviving rhubarb industry, with
stalls selling Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb
and rhubarb-related products such as
liqueurs, chutneys and preserves.
RHUBARB ,
RHUBARB . . .
You can actually
hear
FORCED
RHUBARB
growing
– the buds make
a
POPPING
sound
as they open,
and there is said
to be a constant
CREAKING
during
the growing
season