Amble is a small fishing port and coastal resort at the mouth of the Coquet — one of the quieter gems of the Northumberland coast, with a harbour, a lifeboat station and the dunes and sea-buckthorn scrub of Hauxley and Druridge Bay to the south. The Coquet estuary, the dune grassland and the mixed farmland behind the coast give bees a compact but productive season from hawthorn and sycamore through to late-summer bramble and sea-buckthorn.
Swarms settle on the quayside timber bollards and harbour-wall stone, in the cottage garden hedgerows of the old town near the Harbour Road, in the sea-buckthorn and bramble scrub of the Hauxley dune paths, and on the farmland hedgerows of the Coquet valley above the town. Collectors here cover the Coquet estuary and the mid-Northumberland coast.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
NE65 9QH· approx. 10 km
Visit websiteNE12 8EH· approx. 35 km
Visit websiteNE9 5AX· approx. 43 km
Visit websiteAssociation data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
The northern moors — Simonside, Redesdale, the Cheviots — carry some of the heaviest ling heather flows in England, with colonies migrated in from as far as the Tyne Valley and beyond. Bell heather opens the late-summer flow; ling finishes it. Sycamore and hawthorn are the dominant hedgerow spring flows. Coastal dune plants at Lindisfarne and Druridge add unusual seasoning. Rosebay willowherb flushes the post-industrial Tyne corridor, and ivy on dark sandstone walls closes the year.
More on beekeeping in NorthumberlandReport it in under a minute and a trained local beekeeper will arrange safe collection.
