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Olveston is a village on the Severn Vale between Thornbury and Almondsbury, close to the Oldbury-on-Severn riverside and the Aust cliffs above the Severn estuary crossing. The flat Severn Vale farmland around Olveston carries some of the heaviest oilseed rape crops in South Gloucestershire, with a strong April to May flow from the Oldbury Road and Tockington fields; hawthorn hedgerows frame every field boundary on the vale plain; and the village church of St Mary and the Olveston Court walled garden carry a productive June micro-habitat.

Oilseed rape on the Severn Vale farmland between Thornbury, Oldbury-on-Severn and the M5 corridor gives a strong April to May flow; the flat fields around Olveston and Aust carry it particularly heavily. Hawthorn and blackthorn are dense on the Cotswold edge hedgerows above Wickwar, Rangeworthy and Iron Acton, and the Frome valley farmland east of Yate carries a reliable hawthorn flow in late April. Lime trees line the older streets of Kingswood, Staple Hill and Mangotsfield and carry a June town-centre flow. The Filton Airfield and BAE Systems perimeter scrub carries extensive bramble and rosebay willowherb, and the Frampton Cotterell and Coalpit Heath old colliery reclamation ground is dense with bramble through July and August. Sycamore is abundant along field margins and roadside hedgerows throughout the Cotswold edge; white clover on the improved grasslands of the Severn Vale closes the main flow from June to August. Ivy on the Cotswold limestone walls and the older suburban garden walls closes the year in October.