Nuneaton is a market town in north Warwickshire, birthplace of George Eliot and set at the edge of the old Coventry coalfield with the Anker valley and the ancient parkland of Arbury Hall immediately to the west. The North Warwickshire BKA covers the town, and the surrounding landscape — the old parkland limes and walled gardens of Arbury Hall, the Anker riverside willows and reed-bed margins, the colliery reclamation grasslands of the Bermuda and Griff hollows fringe and the mixed farmland of the Nuneaton Arden — gives local bees a varied industrial and rural season.
Collectors regularly attend swarms in the older garden remnants and lime trees of the Market Place and Bond Gate conservation areas, along the Anker riverside willows and watermeadow margins at Riversley Park, in the old parkland and walled garden remnants of Arbury Hall, and in the chimney stacks and eaves of the older Victorian and Edwardian town-centre properties.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
CV11 5DN· approx. 1 km
Visit websiteCV3 4AQ· approx. 15 km
Visit websiteCV21 2JT· approx. 22 km
Visit websiteAssociation data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
Early flows come from blackthorn and cherry in the Arden hedgerows and oilseed rape on the lighter soils around Southam and Shipston. Hawthorn is abundant; sycamore and field maple fill the middle of May. Lime and sweet chestnut in the parkland around Warwick, Kenilworth and Stratford produce a strong June flow. Bramble and rosebay willowherb support July, and a solid ivy flow along the ironstone villages closes a long season.
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