Armthorpe is a large village and former coal-mining settlement in Doncaster borough, set on the flat arable plain east of Doncaster between the River Don and the Isle of Axholme. The surrounding agricultural land carries extensive oilseed rape in spring and a strong white clover flow through June, with the field-margin hawthorn hedgerows of the former Hatfield Chase providing a distinct lowland pastoral forage; the Thorne and Hatfield Moors peat bogs to the north-east — among the largest lowland raised bogs in England — carry heather, cotton grass and cross-leaved heath for colonies venturing to the moor edge.
Collectors attend swarms on the field-margin hawthorn hedgerows of the Hatfield Chase plain, on the eaves and chimney pots of the older Armthorpe village streets around Church Street and New Street, in the mature garden sycamores and elder of the residential areas off Tranmoor Lane, and in the scrub and willowherb margins of the Markham Main colliery reclamation land to the west.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
DN3 3AG· approx. 1 km
Visit websiteS60 5PA· approx. 25 km
Visit websiteYO8 9AN· approx. 26 km
Visit websiteAssociation data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
The Don Valley arable belt contributes oilseed rape to the early flow. Sycamore and horse chestnut fill May in Sheffield parks — Norfolk Park, Endcliffe, Graves; the lime avenues of Broomhill and Doncaster carry June. Sheffield's western edge opens onto the Dark Peak moors, with ling heather on Stanage, Burbage and Big Moor — a crop Sheffield beekeepers migrate to regularly. Rosebay willowherb is dense on former steelworks land; ivy closes a long season in the blackened-stone suburbs.
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