Iver is a village and civil parish in south Buckinghamshire on the River Colne, at the eastern edge of the county where the Colne valley separates Buckinghamshire from Middlesex. The Colne Valley Regional Park — a chain of gravel-pit lakes, riverside meadows and scrub woodland running north from Iver toward Denham — gives local bees an excellent late-spring and summer forage of waterside willows, hawthorn, bramble and waterside herbs. The older village centre around the church of St Peter has mature churchyard limes, and the surrounding mixed landscape of market garden, orchard and suburban garden provides a productive and varied season. Chalfonts Beekeepers' Society and other local associations cover this part of south Bucks.
Collectors here attend swarms along the Colne Valley riverside willows and gravel-pit scrub margins between Iver and Denham, in the mature churchyard limes and garden trees of St Peter's and the older village cottages on the High Street and Church Road, in the hawthorn and bramble hedgerows of the old market-garden lanes east toward Thorney Mill, and in the roof voids and eaves of the 1930s and post-war housing in Iver Village and Richings Park.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
HA4 7JT· approx. 8 km
Visit websiteSL4 3AX· approx. 9 km
Visit websiteUB6 8TJ· approx. 12 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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