'Sturmer Pippin' is recorded as being presented to the Horticultural Society (later Royal Horticultural Society) by Ezekiel Dillistone in 1827.

[2] The apple takes its name from the village of Sturmer, Essex.

This apple is medium-sized, and has a bright green skin becoming greenish to yellow and flushed red.

A good picking time is mid-November to late November .

One of the best English keeping apples, 'Sturmer Pippin' became widely grown and exported from Tasmania and New Zealand from the 1890s.