Easingwold is a quiet market town in the Vale of York between York and Thirsk, its Georgian and Victorian market place surrounded by the flat, hedged arable farmland of one of England's most productive honey-producing lowlands. The Howardian Hills rise gently to the east, and the town is within easy flight of the broad River Foss corridor, whose willowherb, bramble and hawthorn scrub provide a sustained forage sequence from May through September. Oilseed rape sets the spring calendar across the vale, followed by white clover on the improved pastures and meadow wildflowers on the road verges and churchyard grassland.
Collectors are regularly called to swarms in the lime and horse chestnut trees of the market place and Church Hill, in the older chimney pots and roof eaves of the Georgian properties on Long Street and Chapel Street, along the hawthorn and elder hedges of the Foss riverside footpaths east of the town, and on the fruit trees and garden hedges of the residential streets between Thirsk Road and Stillington Road.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
YO61 3AG· approx. 0 km
YO62 7SE· approx. 20 km
Visit websiteYO19 5UF· approx. 22 km
Visit websiteAssociation data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
The Vale opens on oilseed rape, hawthorn and sycamore; the Dales add hedgerow bramble and lime around Ripon, Harrogate and Skipton; but North Yorkshire is defined by its heather. The North York Moors and the eastern Dales give long, reliable ling flows from late July into September — still commercially worked, still producing some of the finest heather honey in the UK. Bilberry on high pasture adds a quiet early-summer supplement, and rosebay willowherb flushes every managed forestry clearing.
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