Stapleford is a large industrial and residential town in the Broxtowe district, sitting on the Nottinghamshire side of the Erewash valley bordering Derbyshire, between Beeston and the Erewash itself. The Erewash riverside willows and watermeadow margins at Stapleford Meadows nature reserve, the scrubby mixed woodland of Stapleford Hill, the mature garden and park trees of the residential suburbs and the hawthorn hedgerows of the surrounding farmland fringe give local bees a varied mixed-landscape season spanning sycamore and hawthorn in spring through bramble and field maple to ivy in autumn.
Collectors in Stapleford regularly attend swarms in the riverside willows and watermeadow margins of the Erewash at Stapleford Meadows, in the mature garden limes and cherry trees of the Toton Lane and Manor Avenue residential areas, in the scrubby boundary hedgerows and elder of Stapleford Hill recreation ground, and in chimney stacks and eaves of the older terrace and inter-war properties near Church Street.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
NG15 9GA· approx. 18 km
Visit websiteDE55 7LX· approx. 22 km
Visit websiteDE13 0BN· approx. 26 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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