Redditch is a new town in north-east Worcestershire, built around a historic needle-making and fishing-tackle centre on the Arrow, with Redditch Country Park at its heart and the Arrow valley lake system threading through the urban fabric. The North Worcestershire BKA covers the town, and despite its new-town character the surrounding countryside — the old orchard and hedged farmland of the Studley and Feckenham fringe, the Arrow valley watermeadows and the ancient ridge-and-furrow meadows of the Warwickshire border — gives local bees a more varied season than the town itself suggests.
Collectors regularly attend swarms in the older garden remnants and hedgerow oaks of the Church Green and Ipsley conservation areas, along the Arrow and Batchley Brook riverside willows and reed-bed margins in the Arrow Valley Country Park, in the orchard and old field remnants of the Studley and Feckenham lanes, and in the chimney stacks and eaves of the older needle-quarter Victorian properties.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
B13 8QG· approx. 15 km
Visit websiteB91 1LG· approx. 16 km
Visit websiteDY10 4PY· approx. 16 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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