Wollaston is an ironstone village between Wellingborough and Rushden with a long boot-and-shoe manufacturing tradition and attractive stone street frontages. The Nene valley meadows lie close to the south, and the mixed-hedgerow farmland around the village — hawthorn and blackthorn boundary hedges, field maple and elder in the ditches — supports strong populations of honey bees through a reliable Northamptonshire season.
Collectors are called to swarms in the mature trees of Brickhill Road gardens, in ivy and elder along the Nene valley footpath margins towards Grendon, and in the old stone walls and eaves of the ironstone cottages on High Street and Church Street.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
NN3 7AX· approx. 11 km
Visit websiteMK9 3EP· approx. 25 km
Visit websiteCV21 2JT· approx. 42 km
Visit websiteAssociation data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
The county opens on a mix of oilseed rape and field beans across the arable belt between Kettering and Daventry. Hawthorn, blackthorn and field maple line the ironstone walls and quickset hedges. The estate woodlands — Rockingham, Salcey, Whittlewood — produce a sweet-chestnut and lime flow in June, particularly in the older planting blocks. Bramble is dense along the Nene Valley; rosebay willowherb flushes the disused quarry and railway land; and ivy in ironstone villages gives a generous late crop.
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