Wigginton is a village north of York between Haxby and the Skelton Beck corridor, significantly expanded since the 1970s but retaining orchard remnants and hawthorn-rich field-hedges on the old farm edges. The Skelton Beck margins carry elder and hawthorn scrub on the water meadows north of the village, providing a consistent forage corridor from late April through June. York and District Beekeepers serve YO32 with collector coverage across both the older village core and the newer residential areas.
Collectors attend swarms in the Skelton Beck hawthorn and elder scrub on the water meadow margins north of the village, in the orchard remnants and elder of the older residential gardens on Wigginton Road and Carr Lane, in the rooftop cavities and chimney stacks of the 1970s and 1990s housing estates, and in the lime and sycamore of the churchyard at St Andrew's.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
YO19 5UF· approx. 8 km
Visit websiteYO61 3AG· approx. 14 km
LS25 6HH· approx. 24 km
Visit websiteAssociation 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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