Llanrhystud is a quiet coastal village on the A487 between Aberystwyth and Aberaeron, set where the Wyre stream meets Cardigan Bay. The village sits at the edge of a low coastal plain of hedged pasture giving way to gorse-covered clifftop. The sheltered gardens of the village and the wide hedgerows of the surrounding smallholdings — with hawthorn, blackthorn, sycamore and bramble — make a productive early and midsummer forage. The Aberystwyth beekeeping association covers this stretch of coast.
Collectors in this area respond to swarms in the clifftop gorse and coastal scrub between the village and the beach, in the mature garden hedges and ivy-covered stone walls of the village lanes, in the hawthorn and blackthorn of the enclosure hedges on the farms east of the A487, and in chimney stacks and eaves of the older stone cottages.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
SA48 7AF· approx. 22 km
SY24 5DP· approx. 26 km
SA44 5LQ· approx. 27 km
Association data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
Coastal gorse gives an early start at Aberystwyth and New Quay; blackthorn and hawthorn run behind. Sycamore and hawthorn are the backbone of May. The Cambrian uplands contribute bell and ling heather from late July — a modest but reliable crop — and bilberry in the sessile oakwoods adds a quiet early-summer supplement. White clover on hill pasture and bramble in deep Welsh hedges carry midsummer. Coastal sea-campion and thrift add an unusual saline note, and ivy closes the year on whitewashed cottage walls.
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