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Linton is a large south Cambridgeshire village on the River Granta, notable for its well-preserved medieval and Georgian high street and for Linton Zoo, which sits on a chalk ridge above the village, with the village church and the winding Granta valley below. The Cambridgeshire BKA covers the area, and the surrounding landscape — the River Granta riverside willows and watermeadows at Linton Mill and Hadstock, the chalk downland grassland with wild thyme, marjoram and knapweed on the Rivey Hill and Linton Heights escarpment above the village, the mixed arable farmland of the south Cambridgeshire chalk plateau with its oilseed rape and spring barley, the old orchard and kitchen-garden remnants of the larger village properties, and the dense blackthorn and hawthorn hedgerows of the Bartlow and Hadstock lanes — gives local bees both the rich chalk-grassland flora and the productive lowland agricultural sequence.

Oilseed rape is the dominant early flow across the Fens; field beans add to the picture in June. Hawthorn, blackthorn and cherry plum fill the farm hedges that still mark every drove road. The lime avenues of Cambridge, Ely and Huntingdon provide a concentrated urban flow, and willow, hemp agrimony and purple loosestrife along the Great Ouse and Cam sustain hives well into July. Late summer brings sainfoin on chalk field margins and a modest heather crop on Thetford Heath gravels on the county edge.