Stourbridge sits at the south-western corner of the West Midlands conurbation where the Black Country gives way to the Worcestershire countryside. The town is famous for its glassmaking heritage and for the green corridor of the Stour Valley, where hay meadows, orchards and the River Stour itself carry honey bees from the town gardens out into the Clent Hills forage range.
Local collectors are called to swarms in the mature garden trees of Mary Stevens Park, in the orchard hedgerows along the Stour Valley walking route, on the older stone and brick properties of the town centre conservation area, and along the gorse and scrub margins where the urban edge meets Clent Hills Country Park to the south.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
DY9 7PU· approx. 1 km
Visit websiteDY10 4PY· approx. 11 km
Visit websiteDY11 6TL· approx. 11 km
Visit websiteAssociation data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
Spring is carried on blossoming garden cherry, blackthorn and horse chestnut in parks like Sutton, Lickey Hills and Cannon Hill. Urban limes — both small-leaved and hybrid — dominate the June flow, especially along the old tram and canal routes. Bramble is universal on allotments and towpaths, and rosebay willowherb flushes the brownfield and rail corridors through July. The Clent and Waseley Hills give a useful edge of hill forage to colonies in the southern fringe, and ivy closes a long urban season.
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