Hedon is a small, ancient market town on the Holderness plain east of Hull — once a medieval port on the River Humber, now a quiet backwater of brick cottages, a magnificent parish church and the broad arable fields that stretch to the Humber estuary. The town's historic churchyard limes and the floodplain margin scrub along the Hull drains give foraging bees a good local base.
Swarms form on the churchyard lime and sycamore trees of St Augustine's, in the cavity walls and chimney pots of the old town, and along the drainage dyke margins where willow and elder scrub has established on the Holderness plain. Collectors here also cover the Hull eastern fringe suburbs.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
HU17 9BA· approx. 19 km
Visit websiteDN20 0JR· approx. 31 km
Visit websiteLN8 3TR· approx. 41 km
Visit websiteAssociation 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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