Cromer is a Victorian seaside resort on the north Norfolk coast, its pier and flint-walled cottages set on chalk cliffs above the North Sea. The town's cliff-top gardens and the farmland and hedgerow country of the north Norfolk plateau behind the town give local honey bees a varied coastal season, with rapeseed and hawthorn in spring, bramble and clover through summer, and a long ivy flow on the flint churchyard walls and cottage gardens in autumn.
Local collectors regularly attend swarms in the cliff-top garden hedges and mature lime trees along the Overstrand Road, in the flint chimney stacks and older roof voids of the town centre and Church Street cottages, in the garden apple trees and buddleia of the residential streets back from the clifftop, and in the hawthorn and elder scrub of the north Norfolk coastal heath towards Overstrand.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
NR12 0SH· approx. 23 km
Visit websiteNR8 6ND· approx. 29 km
Visit websiteNR34 8JN· approx. 56 km
Visit websiteAssociation data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
Spring is carried on oilseed rape — vast sheets of it — across the light Brecks soils and the heavy clays of central Norfolk. Lime and sweet chestnut provide an important June flow in the parkland of the Holkham, Sandringham and Blickling estates. Bramble is ubiquitous; heather on the Brecks sandy heaths adds a distinctive late crop. The Broads themselves bring long flows from purple loosestrife, hemp agrimony and balsam along the staithes, and the coastal sea-buckthorn at Holme and Holkham is a known autumn supplement before the ivy.
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