Local Honey in Wiltshire

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Wiltshire's main honey event is the Bee & Honey Day, held every autumn by the Wiltshire Beekeepers Association at the Corn Exchange in Devizes. It includes the County Honey Show, with entries from Salisbury to Swindon, as well as talks, candle rolling and stalls selling honey, and Wadworth brews a honey beer for the day using local honey.

The county's honey varies with its landscapes. Potterne Honey has hives around Potterne, Devizes and on Salisbury Plain, taking in woodland, hedgerows, gardens and the Kennet and Avon Canal, and each apiary gives a different flavour. The Wiltshire Honey Co's apiaries in the parish of Savernake produce a soft-set honey naturally. At East Knoyle, Bellorama Honey Bees works village garden flowers and the lime trees around the Clouds Estate, and has helped a local farm sow borage into its wildflower mix. The same beekeeper is breeding towards the native dark honeybee. Clever Girls Honey near Redlynch takes hives to the New Forest after the summer harvest for heather honey.

Most Wiltshire honey is bought straight from the beekeeper or online. Hive & Keeper also sells honey from Mark Rees' garden hives in Ramsbury, bottling harvests from different points in the summer separately. For swarms and beekeeping contacts, the Wiltshire Beekeepers Association has local branches, including Kennet BKA around Calne, Chippenham, Devizes and Marlborough, which offers free swarm collection.

Explore Wiltshire by town

• Local honey in Brinkworth, Chippenham
• Local honey in Devizes
• Local honey in Little Somerford
• Local honey in Malmesbury
• Local honey in Ramsbury
• Local honey in Redlynch
• Local honey in Salisbury
• Local honey in Savernake

Beekeeping landscape and local forage

The Plain's unimproved grassland carries clover, bird's-foot trefoil, knapweed, marjoram and scabious in a mix that most English farmland lost decades ago, and colonies sited around its margins work a genuinely wildflower crop. Sainfoin — an old chalk-country forage legume enjoying something of a revival — is grown on some downland farms and is a superb nectar source. Around the edges of the county, the Avon, Kennet and Wylye valleys bring willow, hawthorn and a long bramble season, while the arable land in the north towards Swindon adds oilseed rape and field beans. Savernake and the West Woods contribute lime and sycamore.

What Wiltshire honey can taste like

Light amber, floral and clean, with a firm fine-grained set. Downland honey from the Plain has a distinct herbal quality from marjoram and thyme.

Seasonal forage calendar

Flowering times are typical and can shift by two to three weeks with the weather, season and altitude.

Places to find local honey in Wiltshire

Salisbury, Swindon, Chippenham, Devizes, Trowbridge, Marlborough, Warminster, Melksham

Frequently asked questions

What is sainfoin honey?

Sainfoin is a deep-rooted chalk-country legume, once grown widely as fodder and now returning on some downland farms. It is an excellent nectar source and gives a pale, delicately flavoured honey. Volumes are small and it is rarely sold as a single crop, but Wiltshire is one of the few counties where you might find it.

Why is Salisbury Plain good for bees?

Because it has largely escaped modern agriculture. Long-term military use has left tens of thousands of acres of unimproved chalk grassland with a flora — clover, trefoil, knapweed, marjoram — that has been lost from most farmed land. Colonies around its margins get a genuine wildflower forage that is hard to find elsewhere in southern England.

Buying local honey in Wiltshire

Use the listing details to choose how to buy, then contact the seller before travelling.

• 10 active directory listings currently appear for Wiltshire.
• 6 listings are marked as raw honey.
• 3 listings have a verified webshop link.
• 6 listings also note other beekeeping products.

The directory does not track live stock or harvest dates. Availability, collection, delivery, prices and seasonal varieties can change, so ask the seller to confirm what is currently available.

Honey producers and beekeepers

• Bellorama Honey Bees

  Salisbury, Wiltshire

  Small-scale beekeeper in East Knoyle, Wiltshire, focused on native bee conservation and wildflower honey.

• Chad's Honey

  Brinkworth, Chippenham, Wiltshire

  Beekeeper based at Hill End Farm in Brinkworth, Wiltshire, producing local honey.

• Clever Girls Honey

  Redlynch, Wiltshire

• Hive & Keeper – Mark Rees (Wiltshire)

  Ramsbury, Wiltshire

  Small-scale hobby beekeeper producing raw honey from up to 12 hives in Ramsbury, Wiltshire.

• Little Somerford Honey

  Little Somerford, Wiltshire

  Small honey producer based in Little Somerford, Wiltshire, selling local honey.

• Malmesbury Honey

  Malmesbury, Wiltshire

  Honey from a full-time Malmesbury beekeeper, including Cotswold honey and heather honey from hives taken to the New Forest.

• Potterne Honey

  Devizes, Wiltshire

  Small family-run beekeeping business producing artisan honey from multiple Wiltshire apiaries.

• The Bee Rookie

  Devizes, Wiltshire

  Local beekeeper in Devizes, Wiltshire offering honey, Buckfast bees, nucs and beekeeping experiences.

• The Wiltshire Bee Keeper

  Devizes, Wiltshire

  Devizes beekeeper Fred Swift sells set and clear Wiltshire honey, bee pollen, comb, candles and hand creams, and collects swarms.

• The Wiltshire Honey Co

  Savernake, Wiltshire

  Family-run apiary producing raw, filtered soft set and runny honey in Wiltshire.

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