Arundel is a small cathedral town dominated by its castle, the Arun and the ancient deer parkland of Arundel Park — one of the most atmospheric bee landscapes in the South of England. The park's veteran trees and the town's flint walls give local honey bees both forage and nesting cavities in abundance.
Local collectors are regularly called to swarms in Arundel Park's veteran beech and lime, in the flint garden walls of the town, on the Wetland Centre perimeter, and in the historic chimney pots of the Maltravers Street and High Street cottages.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
BN12 5JL· approx. 9 km
Visit websitePO18 0EE· approx. 11 km
Visit websiteRH14 0DS· approx. 19 km
Visit websiteAssociation data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
The county is carried by a long, staggered honey flow. Spring opens on the blackthorn and hawthorn of the Downs, followed by field maple and sycamore on the Weald, and the sweet-chestnut coppice still worked around the Arun and Rother valleys. Early summer brings white clover on the grazed chalk, bramble in every hedgerow, and the heavy lime flow that lines the streets of Chichester, Arundel and Horsham. Late summer leans on rosebay willowherb, balsam along the Adur, and a strong ivy flow into October on sheltered south-facing lanes. It is a long season, and hives work hard.
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