Bingham is a market town in the Vale of Belvoir, east of Nottingham on the Smite brook, surrounded by the open arable plain and old pasture of the Nottinghamshire–Leicestershire border. The Nottinghamshire BKA covers the town, and the surrounding landscape — the hedged arable Vale of Belvoir farmland stretching east to Bottesford, the Smite brook and Grantham Canal watermeadow margins, the old lime-tree avenues and parkland remnants of Radcliffe-on-Trent and Bingham market square, and the mixed hedgerow oaks and bramble of the Fosse Way corridor — gives local bees a classic English vale season.
Collectors regularly attend swarms in the older garden remnants and lime trees of the Market Place and Church Street conservation areas, along the Smite brook and Grantham Canal watermeadow margins at Car Colston and Scarrington, in the old parkland and orchard remnants of the Radcliffe-on-Trent and Shelford lanes, and in the chimney stacks and eaves of the older Vale of Belvoir market-town properties.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
NG318JS· approx. 19 km
Visit websiteNG15 9GA· approx. 20 km
Visit websiteDE55 7LX· approx. 36 km
Visit websiteAssociation data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
Oilseed rape dominates the spring flow on the light sandy soils between Newark and Retford. Sycamore and horse chestnut carry May; lime lights the streets of Nottingham, West Bridgford, Mansfield and Worksop. Sherwood Forest gives a strong sweet-chestnut and oak-honeydew contribution in June. Rosebay willowherb is exceptionally heavy on the ex-colliery spoil heaps — a genuinely distinctive Nottinghamshire flow — and bramble fills every disused rail corridor. Ivy on old cottage walls closes a productive year.
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