Grantham is a market town on the Witham in south Lincolnshire, birthplace of Margaret Thatcher and Isaac Newton and set at the foot of the Lincolnshire Edge limestone ridge. The Lincolnshire BKA covers the town, and the surrounding landscape — the limestone grassland of the Edge above Harlaxton and Londonthorpe, the Witham watermeadow willows, the old parkland of Belton House and the mixed arable farmland of the Kesteven plateau — gives local bees a classic limestone-ridge and vale season.
Collectors regularly attend swarms in the older garden remnants and lime trees of the Market Place and High Street conservation areas, on the limestone grassland and scrub margins of the Edge above Harlaxton, along the Witham and Mowbeck riverside willows and watermeadow margins, and in the chimney stacks and eaves of the older market-town and Georgian properties.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
NG318JS· approx. 3 km
Visit websiteNG34 7TW· approx. 18 km
Visit websitePE9 4HZ· approx. 27 km
Visit websiteAssociation data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
Oilseed rape is the defining early Lincolnshire flow, enormous in scale across the Fens and Wolds. Field beans, hawthorn and blackthorn carry the hedgerows. Lime and sweet chestnut line the Georgian streets of Lincoln, Stamford and Boston. Bramble is universal, and rosebay willowherb flushes disused airfields and dismantled rail corridors. The Lincolnshire Wolds, though not high, carry sainfoin and chalk grassland herbs. Coastal buckthorn at Gibraltar Point and ivy in the Wolds villages finish a long year.
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