Alex Ritson

When you think of olives, you might be forgiven for assuming they've been grown in countries like Spain or Italy.

But just under 2,000 kilometres away from the warm climate of Sicily, the small oval fruit is now being produced in the English countryside.

Due to the warming effects of climate change, olive oil is now being made in Lincolnshire.

The BBC's Paul Murphy has taken a trip to the farm in eastern England.

The windswept Lincolnshire fens have little in common with the sun-kissed villages of Tuscany.

But you know what?

The olives don't seem to mind.

David Hoyles mostly grows conventional crops like spuds and wheat.

So this is actually one of our early maturing varieties.

But rising temperatures have brought new possibilities.

We're farmers, we're growers at heart, so we really like that challenge of trying to produce good quality food.

We were seeing climate change coming in and making it more of a struggle to grow our conventional crops.

So then I was thinking what crops would work well with higher temperatures.

Grapes didn't suit our soil type, so olives was a bit of an extreme choice, but one we've gone for.

There's many, many challenges with it, but we're trying to use different techniques, precision farming and things I've picked up from overseas growers.

Walking through these olive groves feels like a bit of a surreal experience.

These are trees that you normally see when you're on holiday in Spain or France or Italy under the baking sun.

But here in the Lincolnshire fens, well, they appear to be doing OK.

Specialised machinery is used to crush the olives and extract the oil so it can be bottled and sold.

There's even a technique for tasting it.