Tenbury Wells is a small spa market town on the River Teme in the far west of Worcestershire, on the edge of the Marches and surrounded by orchards, hop yards and ancient hedgerow countryside. The Great Witley BKA and Ludlow Beekeepers both cover this stretch of the Teme valley, and the surrounding landscape — the Teme riverside willows and alders, the old hop-yard hedgerows and apple and pear orchards of the Burford and Newnham fringe, the limestone meadows of the Teme flood plain, and the sycamore and field maple of the Marches lanes — gives local bees a richly varied orchard-country season.
Collectors regularly attend swarms in the lime trees and old properties of the Market Street and Teme Street conservation areas, along the Teme riverside willows and watermeadow margins at Burford and Kyre, in the old orchard and hop-yard remnants of the surrounding farms, and in the chimney stacks and eaves of the older red-brick and half-timbered Marches market-town properties.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
SY8 1FD· approx. 9 km
Visit websiteWR6 6JT· approx. 17 km
Visit websiteDY11 6TL· approx. 24 km
Visit websiteAssociation data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
The Vale of Evesham opens the year with apple, pear, plum and the last surviving commercial asparagus flowers. Oilseed rape fills the middle fields; hawthorn and sycamore line the lanes. Lime dominates the June streetscape of Worcester, Malvern and Kidderminster. The Malvern Hills bring limestone grassland herbs and a small late-summer heather supplement on the upper slopes; bramble is universal. The tail of the year still carries some traditional hop-garden forage around Bromsgrove, and ivy on the old black-and-white villages closes the season.
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