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British National Beehives


Based in a small workshop in Tideswell in the Peak District we make Highest Quality British National Beehives out of 1st grade American Western Red Cedar or High Quality Red Deal according to the British Beekeepers Association (BBKA) Modified National Hive Plans. Everything we sell we make here in the Peak District. We also stock other items of Beekeeping Supplies including Frames, Foundation Wax and Hive Tools. The driving forces behind peak-hives.co.uk are sustainability and quality workmanship. Sustainability because, well it matters quite a bit we think and quality workmanship because customer satisfaction is paramount.



Cedar Scarcity.

Unfortunately building materials are extremely scarce at the moment and pricing is highly volatile. This goes for Western Red Cedar too. I have decided that until the market settles down I will not be making up any Cedar hives or hive parts. We'll be back in operation once the supply issues have been resolved. Many thanks.

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Want to see your National Hive being made? Here's what's going on in the workshop right now. The image is updated every 10 minutes during working hours. Click to see full size...

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The rest of the centre column is an ongoing blog of what's new at peak-hives.co.uk and other items of interest...veg garden...renewables etc, but please don't let reading about the allotment distract you from placing your order...:-)




Observation Hive Standard Product

I’ve just added our 6 Frame Observation Hive to our standard products list which can be ordered from the left hand column. In standard it comes in First Grade Western Red Cedar and holds six brood frames (seven if you count the one lifted into the viewing frame). It comes with a dummy board and shutters to block out light when in transit. It has a mesh floor complete with Yellow Correx inspection tray. The entrance is a stainless steel disc which is held in place with an allen bolt so it can be fixed tight for display. Optional is a crown board and roof kit so the hive can be used to house a colony longer term.

6 Frame Cedar Observation Hive
Observation Hive Open
Open View with Queen Excluder

Perfect for Farmer’s Markets and can be laser engraved with your custom logo.

A Trio of Observation Hives

Peak Hives Observation Hives
Peak Hives Observation Hives

Here’s three National Nucleus size Observation Hives just completed in the Peak Hives workshop. From Left to right, 6 Frame Cedar Standard National Brood with a Brood Lift and a Super Lift on top and a custom laser engraved logo, 6 Frame Oak 14 x 12 Brood Size Main Chamber with a single 14 x 12 Brood Lift and on the right a 6 Frame Cedar Standard National Brood with 2 x Brood lifts.

These are now packed and ready for sending out to our patient customers. At Peak Hives we’re really busy and Covid 19 isn’t impacting on workshop time but it has had some effect on supplies. Those issues are now resolved so I’m spending 7 days a week in the workshop to get on top of the order queue. As ever the majority of orders are for National Hives custom made in our workshop from Finest First Grade Western Red Cedar.

Uncertain times…Take Care out there. Keep Safe.

Copper Nucleus and Commercial Brood…

Here’s a couple of items that have recently been completed in the Peak Hives workshop 2020. The first is a National Nucleus Hive in cedar with a custom copper roof.

National Nucleus Hive with Copper Roof
National Nucleus Hive with Copper Roof

Also recently completed is this National Hive in cedar with a Commercial Brood Chamber. Suitable for prolific bee colonies the Commercial Brood Chamber sits perfectly underneath standard National Queen Excluder and supers.

National Hive with Commercial Brood Chamber
Cedar National Hive with Commercial Brood Chamber

We’re getting busier now for the 2020 beekeeping season and thank all customers old and new for their orders. Standard National Hives are our main product but it’s nice every now and then to get special requests like this. Happy Beekeeping!

Copper Roofs

For his Peak Hives Cedar National Hives our long standing client requested deep flat roofs with copper roof metals. I had to commission these specially and I think they have turned out very nice indeed. It took quite some time and effort to get to this point but it’s been worth the wait. What I can confirm is that copper is an expensive material!

Copper Hive Roof Metals

At this time of year I have some interesting projects on the go and they include Top Bar Hives, Observation Hives and I’m just about to start on a double length National with removeable partitions in the extended brood chamber and four entrances. Looking forward to working on that one.