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The gooseberry is usually a fruit more suitable for cooking, needing considerable sweetening for palatability unless used as a savoury accompaniment to meat or fish. But Leveller is a variety raised by J. Greenhalgh in Ashton-under-Lyne (Lancashire) in 1851 that became an important dessert fruit. Roach (1995) remarks that it was, and still is, grown in the Chailey-Newick district of Sussex, ‘where the cultivation of large-sized Leveller berries for the dessert trade has reached a very high degree of perfection.’ The berries have been grown in this area for the London market since before World War II.