This heavy branch (top photo) )was left across the track from Townsend Drive to the Ancient Briton as the result of Storm Doris. Our chainsaw was faulty, so we were reduced to muscle power and bow saws (inset). As a…
Monthly Archives: February 2017
Local businesses support action on fly tipping at Soothouse Spring
Bernards Heath is a unique, widely used public space in St Albans. Close to the centre of town, it provides attractive open spaces and woodland of historic interest, quite unlike parks in the city. Unfortunately, its very nature lends itself…
Posted in Beech Bottom Dyke, Litter
Townsend Drive parking
Until now it’s been almost impossible to find a parking space in Townsend Drive, Palfrey Close or Waverley Road because of all day parking. Bernards Heath is on the right-hand side of the photo. The introduction this week of a…
Posted in Townsend Drive
The Lower Heath – what’s happening now?
We were very grateful to everyone who contacted the press and their local Councillors when we got the shock news, only a week ahead of the Cabinet Panel meeting on 9 December, that Hertfordshire County Council (“HCC”) was going back…
Beating the Bounds
A walk around the parish of St Saviour’s, Sandpit Lane conducted by local historian Peter Burley. Meet at the hall, 25 Sandpit Lane at 2.00 pm on Sunday 19th February. The walk will be followed by tea and a talk…
Posted in History
Newsletter Spring 2017
A Guide to Beech Bottom Dyke
by Peter Burley
June 2017Missing board - Townsend drive
If you missed this interpretation board recently, the legs rotted and it is in for repair
June 2017Now appearing on the Heath
Poppies, perhaps brought in with the soil used on the Lower Field after the sinkhole event.
Photo: PB
2017 subscriptions now due
Mugs available from the Heath Bakery (Londis) at £5 each
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