Acomb is a suburb on the western side of York, retaining a historic village centre around the Green that is surrounded by inter-war and post-war residential streets. The Knavesmire racecourse to the south-east carries extensive hawthorn on its field-hedge margins, and the allotment gardens and park plantings of the older residential streets hold elder, sycamore and fruit trees that provide bees with forage from March through to autumn. York and District Beekeepers cover this YO24 area with experienced collectors.
Collectors attend swarms on the Knavesmire hawthorn and lime on the racecourse margins, on the inter-war residential garden fences and chimney pots on Front Street and Cornlands Road, in the Green lane-side elder and sycamore in the village centre, and in the rooftop cavities of the post-war housing estates in Westfield.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
YO19 5UF· approx. 7 km
Visit websiteLS25 6HH· approx. 17 km
Visit websiteYO61 3AG· approx. 19 km
Association data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
Oilseed rape on the Vale of York arable fields around Dunnington, Poppleton and Skelton opens the season from early April. Hawthorn is dense on the field-boundary hedgerows all around the city fringe. York city centre is defined by its lime flow in June — Museum Gardens, Dean's Park, the Knavesmire lime avenue and the Victorian residential streets of Bishopthorpe Road and Bootham all contribute. Bramble is prolific on the railway embankment and Strensall Common edges; willowherb and himalayan balsam follow on the Ouse riverside. Bell heather on Strensall Common gives a modest but genuine late-July supplement. Ivy on the City Walls, churchyard walls and older suburban gardens closes the year.
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