Newark-on-Trent is a historic market town on the Trent in east Nottinghamshire, with a ruined castle above the river and the open fenland of the Trent vale stretching east. The Nottinghamshire BKA covers the town, and the surrounding landscape — the Trent riverside willows and watermeadow margins, the old walled gardens of the castle precinct and Market Place, the lime avenue of Barnby Road and the mixed farmland of the Newark fringe with its oilseed rape and clover — gives local bees a productive Trent-valley season.
Collectors regularly attend swarms in the older lime trees and walled gardens of the Market Place and Castle Gate conservation areas, along the Trent riverside willows and watermeadow margins at Farndon and Winthorpe, in the old orchard and kitchen garden remnants of the town fringe, and in the chimney stacks and eaves of the older market-town Georgian and Victorian properties.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
NG318JS· approx. 19 km
Visit websiteNG15 9GA· approx. 23 km
Visit websiteLN1 2DS· approx. 28 km
Association 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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