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Tisbury is a large Wiltshire village and civil parish in the Nadder valley, with its own railway station on the Waterloo–Exeter line and an active community centred on its handsome medieval church. The Salisbury BKA covers this area, and the surrounding chalk-and-greensand landscape rewards local beekeepers: the Nadder water meadows carry riverside willows and meadowsweet; the chalk downland above the valley at Ansty and Chilmark contributes sainfoin, knapweed and marjoram. The parkland of Fonthill Abbey to the west and Old Wardour Castle to the north-east add parkland lime and sweet chestnut; bramble in the deep Nadder valley hedgerows fills the July gap, and ivy on the older sandstone and chalk-flint farm buildings closes the year.

Early blackthorn and hawthorn along the cowslip-strewn down edges open the year, followed by oilseed rape on the clay vale around Chippenham. Sainfoin is still grown here, and chalk grassland herbs — thyme, marjoram, knapweed, yellow rattle — give a herb-scented character to summer Wiltshire honey that connoisseurs notice. Lime lines Salisbury, Marlborough and Devizes streets; sweet chestnut at Savernake contributes to June. A small but reliable late ivy flow on flint churchyards closes a long chalkland season.