Pembridge is a black-and-white market village in north-west Herefordshire on the River Arrow, known for its detached medieval market hall and its position at the heart of the Black and White Village Trail. The Herefordshire BKA covers the village, and the surrounding landscape — the hop yards and cider-apple orchards of the Arrow valley towards Kington and Eardisland, the ancient hedged pasture and hay meadows of the Pembridge and Shobdon farmland, the Arrow riverside willows and watermeadow margins, and the bilberry and heather moorland of the Radnor Forest fringe on the near Welsh border — gives local bees a genuinely outstanding Marches border season of orchard, hop and moorland forage.
Collectors regularly attend swarms in the older garden and orchard remnants of the Bridge Street and High Street conservation areas, in the hop yards and cider-apple orchards of the Arrow valley lanes towards Eardisland and Shobdon, along the Arrow riverside willows and watermeadow margins, and in the chimney stacks and eaves of the older black-and-white timber-framed village properties.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
HR29PA· approx. 18 km
Visit websiteHR1 2NG· approx. 23 km
Visit websiteSY8 1FD· approx. 27 km
Visit websiteAssociation data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
The season opens on tens of thousands of tonnes of orchard blossom — cider apple, culinary apple and traditional perry pear — across the Leominster and Hereford belt. Hawthorn on deep double-hedges follows; hop gardens provide a quieter supplementary forage. Lime and sweet chestnut dot the market towns. The Black Mountain foothills add bilberry, heather and gorse to hives on the county edge, and bramble is dense throughout. A long, strong ivy flow on red-sandstone churches and orchard windbreaks carries the year out.
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