Local Honey Eyam

Unblended, unheated honey from Hope Valley Honey, a family-run apiary on a smallholding in Eyam in the Peak District.

The smallholding once belonged to the Eyam Hall estate and looks out towards the Hunting Tower at Chatsworth. The bees are kept at six apiary sites across the Hope Valley, including Calver, Grindleford, Hope and Hathersage, and the honey and beeswax goods are made on the smallholding. One of their strongest colonies began as a swarm they were asked to remove from Chatsworth, and they have since bred queens from it.

As well as Hope Valley honey, with occasional special editions such as honeycomb and cinnamon, they make pure beeswax candles, wax melts, a honey and beeswax soap and a beeswax balm, and put together gift sets.

The honey is stocked widely around the Peak District – including Eyam Museum, Delightful Living in the Eyam Hall courtyard, Thornbridge Hall, Peveril Stores and The Old Barn in Castleton, Poole's Cavern and the Pavilion Gardens in Buxton, and farm shops at Sparrowpit, Millers Dale, Hassop and Castleton. They also give talks about bees to schools and groups.