Droitwich Spa is a salt town on the Salwarpe in north Worcestershire, with a brine-spa heritage and the broad Severn vale farmland to the west and the hedged orchard country of the Salwarpe and Bow Brook catchments to the east. The Worcestershire BKA covers the town, and the surrounding landscape — old orchards and hedged pasture, the Salwarpe riverside willows, the parkland limes of Hindlip and Ombersley, and the old walled-garden remnants of the spa hotels — gives local bees a productive mixed-agricultural season.
Collectors regularly attend swarms in the older garden and orchard remnants of the High Street and Friar Street conservation areas, along the Salwarpe and Bow Brook riverside willows and watermeadow margins at Salwarpe and Hanbury, in the parkland limes and old orchard remnants of the Hindlip and Ombersley estate lanes, and in the chimney stacks and eaves of the older spa-town and Victorian properties.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
WR1 1AA· approx. 9 km
Visit websiteDY10 4PY· approx. 10 km
Visit websiteWR6 6JT· approx. 13 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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