Bromsgrove is a market town on the Spadesbourne Brook in north Worcestershire, between Birmingham to the north and the Malvern Hills country to the south, with the Lickey and Clent Hills rising immediately to the north-east. The North Worcestershire BKA covers the town, and the surrounding landscape — the ancient oak woodland and heather heathland of the Lickey Hills, the old orchard country of the Belbroughton and Chaddesley lanes, the mixed farmland of the Salwarpe and Spadesbourne valleys and the parkland limes of Hewell Grange — gives local bees a varied town-edge season.
Collectors regularly attend swarms in the older garden and orchard remnants of the High Street and Church Street conservation areas, on the heather and oak woodland margins of the Lickey Hills country park, in the old orchard and hedged pasture remnants of the Chaddesley Corbett and Belbroughton lanes, and in the chimney stacks and eaves of the older market-town and Victorian villa properties.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
DY10 4PY· approx. 8 km
Visit websiteDY11 6TL· approx. 14 km
Visit websiteDY9 7PU· approx. 14 km
Visit websiteAssociation data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
The Vale of Evesham opens the year with apple, pear, plum and the last surviving commercial asparagus flowers. Oilseed rape fills the middle fields; hawthorn and sycamore line the lanes. Lime dominates the June streetscape of Worcester, Malvern and Kidderminster. The Malvern Hills bring limestone grassland herbs and a small late-summer heather supplement on the upper slopes; bramble is universal. The tail of the year still carries some traditional hop-garden forage around Bromsgrove, and ivy on the old black-and-white villages closes the season.
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