Lanchester Fruits Ltd.

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fruits

In broad terms, a fruit is a structure of a plant that contains its seeds.

The term has different meanings dependent on context. In non-technical usage, such as food preparation, fruit normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of certain plants that are sweet and edible in the raw state, such as apples, oranges, grapes, strawberries, juniper berries and bananas. Seed-associated structures that do not fit these informal criteria are usually called by other names, such as vegetables, pods, nut, ears and cones.

In biology (botany), a "fruit" is a part of a flowering plant that derives from specific tissues of the flower, mainly one or more ovaries. Taken strictly, this definition excludes many structures that are "fruits" in the common sense of the term, such as those produced by non-flowering plants (like juniper berries, which are the seed-containing female cones of conifers), and fleshy fruit-like growths that develop from other plant tissues close to the fruit (accessory fruit, or more rarely false fruit or pseudocarp), such as cashew fruits. Often the botanical fruit is only part of the common fruit, or is merely adjacent to it. On the other hand, the botanical sense includes many structures that are not commonly called "fruits", such as bean pods, corn kernels, wheat grains, tomatoes, and many more. However, there are several variants of the biological definition of fruit that emphasize different aspects of the enormous variety that is found among plant fruits.

lanchester

Lanchester is a village and civil parish in County Durham, England, and was in the former district of Derwentside . It is 8 miles to the west of the city of Durham and 5 miles from the former steel town of Consett, and has a population of slightly over 4,000 people.
Although there was a small drift mine on the edge of the village which closed in the 1970s, Lanchester''s economy was mainly based on agriculture. It is now a residential village in which a number of housing estates have been developed since the late 1960s. The village centre now has three pubs and a small shopping centre. Recently, thanks to the Lanchester Partnership, a cycle track was opened on the 25 April 2009.
Longovicium was a Roman fort situated about 0.5 miles southwest of Lanchester. The fort guarded the Roman road Dere Street, between York and the large supply base at Coria just south of Hadrian''s Wall. The fort dates to AD140, covers almost 6 acres and held around 1000 foot soldiers and cavalry. The fort foundations are well preserved, but there has only been minor excavation work carried out in 1937. Stone from the fort was used in the construction of All Saints Church, which has a Roman altar which was found near the fort in 1893 in its porch.
The schools at Lanchester include St Bede''s Roman Catholic School and Derwentside College''s Sixth Form Centre. There are also two primary schools: Lanchester All Saints'' RC Primary School and Lanchester Endowed Parochial This latter has since relocated about 50 yards to new premises and the old school is now the village hall. The school has a nursery, an infant department and a junior department