Waringstown is a planned village in the drumlin country between Lurgan and Portadown, developed by the Waring family in the seventeenth century as a linen-industry settlement and still characterised by its broad main street and Georgian and Victorian houses set in large gardens. The gardens of the older properties around the village centre carry mature lime, sycamore and apple, and the surrounding farmland is among the most productive orchard and soft-fruit ground in County Armagh. The Bramley apple belt of north Armagh lies a short distance to the south-west, and white clover on the improved pasture and vegetable-growing ground around the village provides a reliable mid-summer flow. Hawthorn hedges on the drumlin lanes toward Dromore and Banbridge fill May with blossom.
Collectors attend swarms in the mature lime and sycamore gardens of the older properties on the main street, in the hawthorn and elder hedgerows on the drumlin farm lanes toward Magheralin and Dromore, and in the stone outbuildings and older buildings on the edge of the village.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
BT26 6NH· approx. 18 km
CA24 3HZ· approx. 175 km
Visit websiteLL77 7NX· approx. 179 km
Association data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
Apple blossom in the Loughgall, Portadown and Richhill orchards gives one of the most concentrated early pollination flows in the British Isles. Hawthorn and sycamore follow. Lime lines the Georgian streets of Armagh city. Bramble is dense on the small-field landscape; clover still matters on pasture. The Ring of Gullion and the Sperrins edge contribute bilberry and late ling heather. Ivy on whitewashed cottage walls closes a long, hedge-rich season.
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