Louth is a Georgian market town at the foot of the Lincolnshire Wolds, with the highest parish church spire in England and a position at the edge of the chalk Wolds looking east over the coastal marshes. The Lincolnshire BKA covers the town, and the surrounding landscape — the sainfoin and wild thyme chalk grassland and hawthorn scrub of the Wolds above Hubbard's Hills, the Lud riverside willows and watermeadow margins at Hubbard's Hills, the old parkland limes and walled gardens of the Westgate and Eastgate conservation areas, and the arable and coastal marsh farmland stretching east to the Lincolnshire coast — gives local bees a classic chalk-Wolds season of exceptional botanical variety.
Collectors regularly attend swarms in the lime trees and old walled gardens of the Mercer Row and Westgate conservation areas, on the chalk grassland and hawthorn scrub of the Wolds above Hubbard's Hills and Ruckland, along the Lud riverside willows and watermeadow margins at Hubbard's Hills, and in the chimney stacks and eaves of the older Georgian market-town and terraced properties.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
LN11 0GN· approx. 1 km
Visit websiteLN8 3TR· approx. 24 km
Visit websiteLN10 6PY· 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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