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Weybridge is an affluent Thames-side town at the confluence of the Wey and Thames rivers in northwest Surrey, its Georgian and Victorian villas surrounded by the water meadows, osier beds and riverside commons that still survive along both river corridors. The Wey Navigation towpath, the open common at Burhill and St George's Hill, the old lime and plane avenues of the town's conservation area streets, and the mature garden trees of the larger riverside properties give local honey bees an exceptional season for a Thames commuter town — particularly strong on willows and sallow in spring and lime in June.

Spring builds fast on blackthorn, hawthorn and horse chestnut along the North Downs scarp, then leans heavily on field maple, sycamore and the urban lime avenues of Guildford, Dorking and Woking. The lowland heaths — Chobham, Frensham, Thursley — give a late bell heather crop in good Augusts that colonies here can count on, supplemented by rosebay willowherb across the MoD training land. Bramble is dense from Box Hill to the Surrey Hills AONB, and the old walled churchyards carry a strong ivy flow into autumn.