Blaby is a district centre and large village south of Leicester in Blaby District, set between the city's expanding southern fringe and the gentle pastoral landscape of the River Sence valley. The Sence riverside meadows and willows at Cosby and Countesthorpe, the ridge-and-furrow pasture remnants around Glen Parva, the white clover of the improved Blaby farmland margins and the mature garden and street trees of the older village core and newer estates give local bees a productive lowland season balanced between suburban convenience and genuine countryside access.
Collectors in Blaby regularly attend swarms in the riverside willows and flood-plain margins of the River Sence towards Cosby, in the older garden fruit trees and privet hedges of the Lutterworth Road and Leicester Road conservation areas, in the elder and hawthorn scrub on the field margins of the Countesthorpe and Cosby fringe, and in chimney stacks and eaves of the older village terrace and inter-war properties.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
CV11 5DN· approx. 21 km
Visit websiteCV21 2JT· approx. 23 km
Visit websiteCV3 4AQ· approx. 29 km
Visit websiteAssociation data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
Oilseed rape and field beans drive the arable flow. Sycamore and horse chestnut in the market towns build the mid-May crop; lime dominates June in Leicester, Loughborough and Market Harborough. Charnwood brings sweet chestnut, bracken and patches of bilberry; Bradgate and Belvoir parks add ancient lime and oak. Bramble is universal; rosebay willowherb fills ex-quarry ground around Mountsorrel. Ivy on the red-brick farmhouses and old pub gardens closes the season strongly.
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