Lutterworth is a compact market town in south Leicestershire, close to the M1 and M6 interchange but surrounded by rolling pastoral farmland of the Swift valley. Its church was the living of John Wycliffe in the fourteenth century, and the quiet market streets are ringed by mixed farmland hedgerows, sycamore avenues and the Swift meadows, which give local bees a traditional pastoral season.
Swarms settle on the churchyard lime and sycamore, in the garden hedgerows of the Market Street and Bank Street area, along the Swift riverside willows and elder scrub, and on the eaves of the older brick farmsteads on the edge of town. Collectors here cover the Swift Valley and the south Leicestershire arable plain.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
CV21 2JT· approx. 10 km
Visit websiteCV11 5DN· approx. 20 km
Visit websiteCV3 4AQ· approx. 21 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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