King's Lynn is a Hanseatic port town on the Great Ouse at the south-western corner of the Wash, with a medieval merchants' quarter and the flat fenland of west Norfolk stretching inland. The Norfolk BKA covers the town, and the surrounding landscape — the oilseed rape and field beans of the west Norfolk arable plain, the dyke-side willowherb and loosestrife margins of the fen drains, the saltmarsh and glasswort habitats of the Wash shore and the old walled gardens of the Tuesday Market Place — gives local bees a distinctive fen-coast and agricultural season.
Collectors regularly attend swarms in the older garden remnants and lime trees of the Tuesday Market Place and King Street conservation areas, along the Great Ouse riverside willows and reed-bed margins at the Nar and Fisher Fleet, on the saltmarsh and sea-lavender margins of the Wash shore at Snettisham, and in the chimney stacks and eaves of the older medieval and Georgian town-centre properties.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
PE30 5DQ· approx. 0 km
Visit websitePE21 6NW· approx. 38 km
Visit websitePE7 3BN· 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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