Brewood is a handsome South Staffordshire village with a medieval street plan, a Georgian market place and one of the finest parish churches in the county at St Mary and St Chad. The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal passes within a mile of the village, and the surrounding estate farmland, including the ancient parkland of Chillington Hall with its ornamental lake, cedar avenues and veteran oaks, provides outstanding forage from spring through autumn. Staffordshire South Beekeepers covers this area. The Chillington estate lime avenues carry a substantial midsummer lime flow, and the hedged lane network around Brewood is rich in hawthorn, blackthorn and elder.
Swarms around Brewood are reported from the veteran oaks and cedar avenue of Chillington Hall park, from the churchyard limes and yews at St Mary and St Chad, in the walled gardens of the older properties along Dean Street and Market Place, and on the canal-side hawthorn and elder along the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal towards Cross Green.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
ST17 0UP· approx. 13 km
Visit websiteB74 2YT· approx. 27 km
Visit websiteDY9 7PU· approx. 27 km
Visit websiteAssociation data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
Oilseed rape leads the early flow across the arable belt. Cannock Chase contributes a significant late heather crop — bell first, then ling — on its extensive sandy commons. The Staffordshire Moorlands add bilberry and small ling patches; lime in Stafford, Lichfield, Burton and Stoke-on-Trent fills the June streets. Bramble and rosebay willowherb are everywhere in the former colliery and brickworks land. Ivy carries hives into autumn on old red-brick terraces and the greenbelt villages.
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