Johnstown is a colliery village south of Wrexham city, merging into the urban fringe yet retaining its own community identity. The village sits on a gentle ridge with the Clywedog valley woodland park accessible below toward Wrexham, and the lanes toward Rhostyllen and Penybryn to the west have surviving field-boundary hawthorn and elder that links the village to the broader Ruabon Mountain forage landscape. Allotments on the village edge are well-used and contribute orchard fruit and clover to the local bee-forage mix.
Collectors attend swarms in the allotment and older terraced-garden strips on the village edges, in the field-margin hawthorn and elder lanes toward Rhostyllen, along the Clywedog valley woodland margins below the village, and in the chimney stacks and eaves of the older brick and render properties throughout Johnstown.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
SY11 4AD· approx. 13 km
Visit websiteLL15 2LB· approx. 18 km
Visit websiteSY133JL· approx. 24 km
Visit websiteAssociation data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
Hawthorn and blackthorn are dense in the ancient hedge lines of the vale of Llangollen and the Dee valley. Sycamore fills every valley slope and sheltered lane, giving a reliable early-May flow. Oilseed rape is grown on the flatter arable land east of Wrexham toward the English border and the Maelor plain. Lime trees line the older streets of Wrexham city centre and the grounds of Erddig Hall (National Trust). Bramble is prolific on the Esclusham Mountain and on the Ruabon Moor edge. Heather and bilberry contribute from Ruabon Mountain and the Cyrn-y-Brain ridge above the city. White clover on the permanent pasture of the lower Ceiriog valley is still a useful flow in a good year.
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