Farnham (Hop) was a traditional English hop that is no longer grown today. Originally known as Farnham Whitebine, it is named after the farming town of Farnham in the County of Surrey, some 65 km (40 miles) from London. The town became first known as a notorious coaching stopover on the road to Winchester. Hops were first cultivated there in 1597 and became the area’s most important crop, even before wheat, in the mid-1700s, when Farnham hops were regarded as of the highest quality in all of England. The hop is widely mentioned in connection with early India pale ales and was almost certainly a very close relative of the Canterbury Whitebine and Mathon Whitebine, so named because of their very pale green bines and leaves. The boom for Farnhams lasted until roughly the early 1880s, after which East Kent Golding and Fuggle, most of it sold at the Hop Exchange at Southwark in London, began to replace it. But in its heyday, Farnham hops even made it to the New World, where it is known to have been grown in Philadelphia in 1790. This would indicate that Farnham was the likely source of flavor and aroma in the American porters that slaked the thirst of such eminent imbibers as George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, America’s first three presidents.