Dunchurch is an attractive village on the A45 south of Rugby, with a well-preserved Georgian coaching-inn centre and several fine stone and timber-framed properties. The surrounding farmland is productive arable with substantial hawthorn and blackthorn hedgerows; mature lime and horse chestnut trees in the village itself produce a strong June forage peak for colonies kept in the area.
Local collectors respond to swarms in the lime and horse chestnut of the village green and churchyard, in hedgerow hawthorn along the Southam road margins, in mature garden trees on Cawston Lane, and in the tile courses and outbuildings of the older coaching properties on The Green.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
CV21 2JT· approx. 5 km
Visit websiteCV3 4AQ· approx. 12 km
Visit websiteCV32 4AA· approx. 16 km
Visit websiteAssociation data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
Early flows come from blackthorn and cherry in the Arden hedgerows and oilseed rape on the lighter soils around Southam and Shipston. Hawthorn is abundant; sycamore and field maple fill the middle of May. Lime and sweet chestnut in the parkland around Warwick, Kenilworth and Stratford produce a strong June flow. Bramble and rosebay willowherb support July, and a solid ivy flow along the ironstone villages closes a long season.
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