Market Rasen is a small market town on the River Rase in the west Lincolnshire Wolds, known for its racecourse and its position at the edge of the chalk Wolds looking west over the Trent vale. The Lincolnshire BKA covers the town, and the surrounding landscape — the sainfoin and chalk grassland and hawthorn scrub of the Wolds above Normanby le Wold and Tealby, the Rase and Ancholme riverside willows and watermeadow margins, the old walled gardens and lime-tree avenues of the King Street and Union Street conservation area, and the mixed arable farmland of the Trent vale stretching west — gives local bees a varied chalk-edge and river-vale season.
Collectors regularly attend swarms in the older garden remnants and lime trees of the Queen Street and King Street conservation areas, on the chalk grassland and hawthorn scrub of the Wolds above Tealby and Walesby, along the Rase and Ancholme riverside willows and watermeadow margins at Bishopbridge and Faldingworth, and in the chimney stacks and eaves of the older Georgian market-town and Victorian properties.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
LN8 3TR· approx. 2 km
Visit websiteLN1 2DS· approx. 22 km
LN11 0GN· approx. 23 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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