Coalville is a former colliery town on the north-western edge of Charnwood Forest — the old North West Leicestershire coalfield, now greening rapidly as spoil heaps, colliery sidings and worked-out surface sites convert to woodland, wildflower grassland and managed amenity. The Charnwood Forest behind the town adds ancient Precambrian rock heath, bracken and patches of sweet chestnut to the local forage mix.
Collectors regularly attend swarms in the bramble and rosebay willowherb of the ex-colliery brownfield margins, on the new amenity lime and sycamore planted on the Snibston Discovery Park site, in the older privet hedges and coal-brick chimney pots of the Victorian streets, and on the Charnwood Forest heathland edge.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
DE13 0BN· approx. 21 km
Visit websiteCV11 5DN· approx. 23 km
Visit websiteB74 2YT· approx. 36 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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