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Guisborough is a historic market town at the foot of the Cleveland Hills, overlooked by the dramatic east arch of the twelfth-century Augustinian Priory. Hawthorn is particularly dense on the hedgebanks of the Cleveland Hills lanes above Guisborough Forest and Waterfall Park; sycamore lines the old market place and Church Street; and the heather and bilberry moorland of the Cleveland Hills — Highcliff Nab, Roseberry Topping, Urra Moor — is accessible from apiaries on the southern edge of town.

Oilseed rape on the flat arable plain between the Tees and the Cleveland escarpment produces a heavy April to May flow, particularly around Stokesley, Stillington and the fields east of Yarm. Hawthorn and blackthorn are thick in the suburban hedgerows of Stockton, Billingham and Guisborough. Lime trees line the Victorian residential streets of Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and Redcar and carry a reliable June flow. The defining feature of the landscape is the extent of ex-industrial grassland: former ICI works at Billingham and Wilton, steelworks sites at Redcar, and colliery reclamation ground throughout are dense with bramble, rosebay willowherb and white clover from June through August. Sea buckthorn and coastal meadow wildflowers on the North Tees marshes, Coatham Sands and Huntcliff provide a distinctive supplement near the shore. The Cleveland Hills rise sharply south of Guisborough, Skelton and Loftus and carry ling heather and bilberry from late July into September — within easy reach of apiaries on the urban fringe.