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Laceby is a village on the western approaches to Grimsby, sitting in a slight valley where the road from Barnetby drops off the Lincolnshire Wolds escarpment. The village retains a compact agricultural character around the church of St Margaret and its surrounding lanes, with a strong hedgerow framework of hawthorn and blackthorn on the Wolds side that gives local bees an excellent May-blossom flow before the oilseed rape on the flat land to the east comes into flower.

The flat arable belt running south from Grimsby towards Waltham and Holton le Clay carries some of the densest oilseed rape cultivation in England, giving apiary colonies a concentrated April flow that can build enormous early-season colony strength. Hawthorn is prolific in the hedgerow network along the Wolds escarpment and on the lanes towards Laceby, Waltham and Brigsley, with a reliable May blossom. Bramble is generous on the railway embankments, the scrub margins of the docks and the green lanes south of Cleethorpes. White clover fills the pastoral meadows and road verges through July. The Humber estuary saltmarshes fringing Immingham and Healing carry sea lavender and sea purslane through August — a distinctive estuarine nectar source rarely available inland. Sycamore and lime line the Victorian residential streets of Grimsby and Cleethorpes, while ivy on the older brick terraces, dock walls and churchyards closes the forage year in October.