Can you identify this apple?

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Grows in my garden, its a sweetish eating apple, anyone know the variety?

Does it keep for long once picked?

Kind of looks like a Cox apple to me?

Yes, they keep for ages.

You lucky thing, that looks like Cox's to me. My favourite apple. Just got some from Ocado, first of the season for me!

Yes just googled and that might be it, the tree literally groans with the weight of them, end up with bags and bags of them.

Coxes are known for being difficult to grow in a garden situation, prone to disease. There's many hundreds of apple varieties, so it's not necessarily a variety that you are familiar with. Does yours have the typical Cox flavour - which is more complex than "sweetish"?

You might be lucky and be able to catch an "apple day" event in your area at which they're offering an identification service. Alternatively, the national Fruit Collections at Brogdale offer an identification service for £25 www.brogdalecollections.org/fruit-identification/

Then it definitely isn't a James grieve! It looks like it could be a Katy, if not a cox- good for cider!