Rugby is a market town in north-east Warwickshire, famous for the sport that bears its name and set in the mixed farming and Lias clay country of the Avon valley headwaters. The North Warwickshire BKA covers the town, and the surrounding landscape — the Avon and Swift watermeadow willows, the old parkland limes of the school grounds, the rugby-town Victorian allotment fringe and the hedged Lias farmland of the Leamington Hastings and Dunchurch countryside — gives local bees a dependable mixed-agricultural season.
Collectors regularly attend swarms in the older garden remnants and lime trees of the High Street and Lawrence Sheriff Street conservation areas, along the Avon and Swift riverside willows and watermeadow margins at Newbold-on-Avon and Cosford, in the old allotment and kitchen garden plots of the Hillmorton and Bilton fringe, and in the chimney stacks and eaves of the older Victorian school-town properties.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
CV21 2JT· approx. 0 km
Visit websiteCV3 4AQ· approx. 15 km
Visit websiteCV32 4AA· approx. 21 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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