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Cheshunt is a large town in the Lea Valley on the southern edge of Hertfordshire, where the Lee Valley Regional Park — reservoirs, reedbeds and riverside willows stretching south towards Waltham Abbey — provides the dominant forage corridor. The Turkey Brook valley and the former glasshouse nursery land, now greening over with willow scrub and bramble, add a rich late-season flow, and the residential lime-tree avenues and mature garden fruit trees of the older streets between Churchgate and the High Street sustain an active honey-bee population through the summer months.

The chalk uplands of the north — around Baldock, Royston and Letchworth — give oilseed rape, sainfoin and a solid hawthorn flow. The southern clay country leans on sycamore, horse chestnut and field maple, with the limes of Hertford, Harpenden and St Albans producing a classic June crop. Ashridge, Tring Park and the Chilterns edge add beech forage. Bramble on the commons and rosebay willowherb along the Lee Valley corridor carry midsummer. Ivy closes a long, productive year.