Friends of Bernards Heath – Helping to protect, preserve and enhance Bernards Heath

Heritage Open Day Event 9 September 2018, Exploring Beech Bottom Dyke and Bernards Heath

Posted on July 24, 2018 by

Beech Bottom Dyke is a striking mile long Iron Age earthwork, linked to Shakespeare’s King Cymbeline, and set in an ancient area of commons called “Bernards Heath”. It is unpublicised and lacks interpretation – except for this guided walk.

This walk forms one of St Albans Heritage Open Days events and will take place on Sunday, 9th September 2018. More details can be found here

The local 19th century water colourist Henry Buckingham depicted this scene at Beech Bottom Dyke in 1859 when rifle training was given. At that time there was a threat of a possible invasion from France.
(by kind permission of St Albans Museum).

Stumps Drawn

Posted on July 6, 2018 by

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If you’ve walked along the narrow path between the Lower Field and the Heathlands School gate you’ll be aware of several short stumps which were a trip hazard. No more – we have now removed them.

Posted in Maintenance, Trees

FoBH Tree Walk

Posted on July 4, 2018 by

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The first Friends of Bernards Heath Tree Walk on Sunday 1st July was led by Roger Miles and as you can see from the photo attracted a group of over 20 people. Read more ›

Posted in Trees

Rainfall – or the lack of it

Posted on July 2, 2018 by

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If you have a garden, then you’re probably getting anxious about the lack of rain – well the Heath could do with rain too. Just one look at the grass tells all. We record rainfall and temperature very close to the Heath and the table above shows that only 1 mm fell during the month of June. There was a similar rainfall of just 1.5 mm in April last year.

Posted in Weather

Dumped Bikes

Posted on July 2, 2018 by

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There has been something of a spate of abandoned bikes on the Heath of late and this one was dumped on the Lower Field sometime last night, 1st July. The gear change cable is broken.

Posted in Litter, Lost

Foxes on the Heath

Posted on June 18, 2018 by

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Took this photo about 04.00 Friday morning, 15th June. The two young Foxes sitting together passing the time. By the time l stopped they had spotted me but still a good picture. Thanks: Dave McCormack

Posted in Wildlife

Friends of Bernards Heath and Your Data

Posted on May 28, 2018 by

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If you use the internet on a regular basis, you’ve have probably had many emails about the new General Data Protection Regulations, GDPR. It gives a glimpse into the number of places data is held on us.

The data we keep about FoBH members is simply limited to names and contact details so that we can keep you aware of what’s going on and what we do with your subscription payments.

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Bluebells

Posted on April 24, 2018 by

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Bluebells April 2018

Bluebells are coming into flower over the Heath now as you may have noticed.

Why not visit Beech Bottom Dyke for the best collections, where native bluebells, rather than the Spanish variety, proliferate. The native flowers also have a wonderful smell.

Photo: MN