Amersham is a historic market town in the Chess valley in south-east Buckinghamshire, with a beautiful medieval high street and the Chiltern Hills AONB surrounding it on all sides. The South Bucks BKA covers the town, and the surrounding landscape — the ancient beechwoods and chalk grassland of the Chilterns, the Chess riverside willows and watermeadow margins, the old walled gardens and orchard remnants of the town fringe and the mixed farmland of the Amersham and Chesham valley — gives local bees a classic Chiltern chalk-beechwood season.
Collectors regularly attend swarms in the older garden remnants and lime trees of the Market Square and High Street conservation areas, in the ancient beechwood and scrub margins of the Chilterns above Little Missenden and Coleshill, along the Chess riverside willows and watermeadow margins at Chenies and Sarratt, and in the chimney stacks and eaves of the older medieval and Georgian town-centre properties.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
HP9 2XG· approx. 6 km
Visit websiteWD3 1FA· approx. 10 km
Visit websiteHP11 1BJ· approx. 11 km
Visit websiteAssociation data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
The Chiltern beech hangers produce an unusual honeydew flow some years; lime, field maple and sweet chestnut are the more reliable June flows through Marlow, High Wycombe, Amersham and Chalfont. In the Vale, oilseed rape dominates the spring and field beans support early June. Bramble is dense on the commons; rosebay willowherb fills every beech-clearing on the scarp. A strong late ivy flow runs across the flint-walled villages and ancient churchyards of the scarp foot.
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