Bridlington is the East Riding's main seaside town — chalk cliffs, holiday amusements and the sheltered old town behind the priory. Its bees work a coastal season of sea-buckthorn dune scrub, hedgerow bramble and the lime trees of the Victorian streets above the bay.
Collectors attend swarms on the priory churchyard walls, on the terraced eaves of the old town off High Street, and on the scrub-hedge boundaries of the Cardigan Road allotments. Coastal call-outs onto the chalk clifftop above North Beach are not uncommon.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
YO11 3PE· approx. 19 km
Visit websiteHU17 9BA· approx. 31 km
Visit websiteYO17 7HD· approx. 39 km
Association data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
Oilseed rape is the defining early flow across the Wolds and Holderness plain. Hawthorn and field maple line the hedgerows. Lime lights the streets of Beverley, Driffield, Hull (Kingston-upon-Hull) and Bridlington. The Wolds chalk grasslands carry thyme, knapweed and sainfoin; bramble and rosebay willowherb are universal. Coastal sea-buckthorn at Spurn adds a distinctive late-summer flow, and a strong ivy flow on the East Riding's pantile villages closes the year.
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