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Pill is a historic riverside village at the confluence of the River Avon and Severn Estuary, where the old Pill Harbour once served the Bristol Channel pilot cutters that guided ships into the port. The Avon riverside willows, the Gordano Valley rhyne landscape behind the village and the mature garden trees of Ham Green carry a productive and varied season; hawthorn is thick on the Gordano lanes toward Easton-in-Gordano; and the old walled gardens of Ham Green hospital grounds give a sheltered urban-fringe forage patch.

Oilseed rape is grown extensively on the North Somerset Levels plain between Weston, Yatton and Congresbury, producing a strong April to May flow that fills supers quickly and requires timely extraction. Hawthorn is dense on the Mendip foothills hedgerows around Churchill, Winscombe and Banwell, and the Tickenham Ridge and Kewstoke Hill carry blackthorn and gorse for the earliest spring forage. Lime trees line the Victorian esplanade gardens of Weston-super-Mare and the older residential streets of Clevedon and Portishead, giving a reliable June town-centre flow. The orchard gardens of Long Ashton, Backwell and Nailsea carry traditional apple, pear and plum blossom in May. Bramble is prolific on the Mendip scarp scrub and on the regenerating scrub of old rhyne banks; white clover on the improved moor grassland and rhyne margins carries through July. Sea-buckthorn and coastal grassland at Sand Bay, Weston Sands and Clevedon Marine Lake provide a late-summer coastal supplement. Ivy on old limestone walls and the cliff-face gardens at Clevedon and Portishead closes the forage year in October.