Fruit growers and preservers since 1885

Tiptree, As it should be

We’ve been proudly making jam in the heart of Essex since Arthur Charles Wilkin and his wife Mary Ann Wilkin began creating their finest Strawberry Conserve in 1885, and the family has been farming there for even longer.

Over 140 years later, Wilkin & Sons is still making jam using fruit from our own English farm.

Learn More about Wilkin & Sons and Tiptree

Our History

The ‘Tiptree’ story begins around the early 1700s with Trewlands, the farm that was later to become the main site for jam-making in the Essex village of Tiptree. Today, there are some 11,000 inhabitants in what may well be the largest village in the country.

The Tiptree Museum

A lifetime ago, Mr John Wilkin began collecting the paraphernalia of preserve making and Essex village life. He carefully stored away pictures, documents and redundant machines in quiet corners of the preserve factory and as the business approached its Centenary celebrations he asked for room to display some of his hoard.

Celebrating 140 Years

In 2025 we celebrated our 140th year of Jam making at our factory in Tiptree, Essex. Learn more about key moments in our company history.

WHERE TO FIND US

We have a growing estate of quintessentially English Tea Rooms, and visitors to Tiptree can experience a little of our heritage in our Museum of Jam Making.

More recently, we have worked with like-minded businesses to develop products in partnership, such as our Fruit Gin Liqueurs and Fine English Spirits.

Visit our Tea Rooms

Life at the Tiptree Farm

April on the Farm

April really is a beautiful month on the Tiptree farm. We feel privileged to have all this wonderful colour right on our doorstep, and to be part of maintaining it not just for our jam-making business, but also for future generations to enjoy.

March on the Farm

It’s been a long, cold and wet winter – but finally it looks like spring is here, and things are starting to come to life on the Tiptree farm!

And just because most of the crops haven’t yet arrived, doesn’t mean we haven’t been busy.

FRUIT

Today, we have a plentiful supply of a huge range of fruits, sometimes in many different varieties too. Yet it wasn’t always that way and thousands of years ago, the very first preserves were created in order to store that goodness for year-round use.

Wilkin & Sons presently holds the Royal Warrant as purveyors of Tiptree Products to His Majesty, King Charles III.
An Honour we have held continually since 1911.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II made a private visit to Wilkin & Sons Ltd to mark 125 years of jam making at Tiptree.