Burry Port — Porth Tywyn — is a small harbour town on the Burry Inlet west of Llanelli, best known as the place where Amelia Earhart's transatlantic flight first touched down in 1928. The harbour and its dune system carry coastal forage of sea-lavender, thrift and marram; the town's allotment gardens and hedged residential areas provide bramble and white clover; the estuary margins contribute meadowsweet and hemp agrimony through the summer. The Carmarthen BKA serves this coastal area.
Collectors cover swarms in the older walled and hedged gardens of the harbour-side streets, along the dune and scrub edge above the beach, in the allotment gardens of the town fringe, and in the eaves and roof spaces of the older Victorian and Edwardian properties of New Road and Stepney Road.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
SA4 4PE· approx. 14 km
SA4 9DH· approx. 18 km
SA31 2JG· approx. 20 km
Association data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
Blackthorn and hawthorn in the Tywi and Teifi valleys open the year. Sycamore is everywhere; white clover in the hay meadows still matters. Lime in Carmarthen, Llanelli, Llandeilo and Ammanford gives a strong June flow. The Black Mountain contributes bell and ling heather in August. Bilberry on the Brechfa oakwoods supplements; bramble is dense; ivy on whitewashed farmhouses closes a long dairy-country season.
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