Skegness is the principal coastal resort of Lincolnshire, set on the sandy North Sea coast south of the Lincolnshire Wolds and flanked by Gibraltar Point National Nature Reserve to the south. The Lincolnshire BKA covers the town, and the surrounding landscape — the sea-buckthorn, marram and coastal scrub of Gibraltar Point and the Skegness dunes, the inland arable Fenland belt of rape and beans stretching west towards Burgh le Marsh and Wainfleet, the old orchard and garden remnants of the Victorian seafront and hinterland, and the roadside bramble and ivy of the Wolds edge lanes — gives local bees a distinctive coastal-dune and Fenland Fen-edge season.
Collectors regularly attend swarms in the older garden remnants and lime trees of the Drummond Road and Scarborough Avenue conservation areas, on the sea-buckthorn and marram scrub of Gibraltar Point National Nature Reserve and the Skegness dune system, along the Haven and Burgh le Marsh waterway willows and fen-drain margins, and in the chimney stacks and eaves of the older Victorian seafront and resort properties.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
PE21 6NW· approx. 30 km
Visit websiteLN11 0GN· approx. 33 km
Visit websiteLN10 6PY· approx. 36 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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