Holt is a handsome Georgian market town in North Norfolk, rebuilt in brick after a fire in 1708 and now the gateway town for visitors to Blakeney Point and the North Norfolk coast. The town sits within the heathland landscape of Holt Country Park and the Glaven Valley — home to the North Norfolk Railway — where heather, gorse, bracken and the mature sessile oak of Holt Lowes NWT reserve provide an exceptionally rich forage mosaic for a small market town.
Collectors are called to swarms in the heather and gorse of Holt Lowes and Holt Country Park, in the old garden walls and flint-faced buildings around the Market Place and High Street, and in the mature orchard and garden trees of the larger properties on the New Holt Road and Letheringsett Lane edges.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
NR8 6ND· approx. 26 km
Visit websiteNR12 0SH· approx. 34 km
Visit websitePE30 5DQ· approx. 49 km
Visit websiteAssociation data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
Spring is carried on oilseed rape — vast sheets of it — across the light Brecks soils and the heavy clays of central Norfolk. Lime and sweet chestnut provide an important June flow in the parkland of the Holkham, Sandringham and Blickling estates. Bramble is ubiquitous; heather on the Brecks sandy heaths adds a distinctive late crop. The Broads themselves bring long flows from purple loosestrife, hemp agrimony and balsam along the staithes, and the coastal sea-buckthorn at Holme and Holkham is a known autumn supplement before the ivy.
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