including Beech Bottom Dyke and Sandridge Road Wastes
Please join us for Autumn Action Day 2022
Sunday 20th November
Meet at Heath House, Heath Farm Lane, AL3 5AE
from 9.30 am
Bring Gloves and secateurs if you have them.
Litter pickers and bags will be provided.
Accompanied children and dogs welcome.
Thank you everyone
who took part.
Want to find out what’s happening on the Heath, or perhaps some aspect of history, or even how the weather has been, then bear in mind that help is at hand. There is a lot of information on this website, so if the menu items do not lead you to the right places, here are some ways to find what you are looking for.
Type in your search words into the box to the top right of the sidebar (column on the right).
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The archives are good for searching specific Posts. They date back to 2014. Click the right arrows for a monthly search
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Most posts have a category and an alphabelical list of these appears on the right hand sidebar.
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Is able to match your query to match almost anything in the website. Amazing!
The Friends of Bernards Heath (FoBH) believe that the Heath provides an exceptional natural amenity for the locality and the Society exists in order to protect, preserve and where appropriate enhance the Heath for the benefit of the neighbourhood as a whole. Membership provides you with a forum to express your opinions about the Heath and an opportunity to help preserve it for future generations.
We liaise with the Countryside Management Service and St Albans District Council to update the Greenspace Action Plan for Beech Bottom Dyke and Bernards Heath.
This is just a selection of work done by the Friends of Bernards Heath.
Campaigns to protect the Lower Field
from further development
Planned interpretation boards for the Heath, Sandridge Road Wastes
and Beech Bottom Dyke
Temperatures
Many parts of the UK broke all temperature records in July, even reaching more than 40°C in Lincolnshire. We measured a maximum of 37°C on the 19th with a hot wind which was especially trying.
Rainfall
Total rainfall only 7.5 mm. This is not a record, but taken with relatively low rainfalls over the previous 5 months, means that there could be a shortage of water.
See Weather History for more details all previous temperature and rainfall data.
The news that a large sports area development next to Bernards Heath was a surprise to many, since entry to the site is along Spinney Lane, which is part of the Heath. This lane is much used by pedestrians and forms part of a National Cycle Trail.
Continue reading “St Albans High School for Girls Sports Field”In April last year a cherry tree dropped a large branch in Sandridge Road. Now another cherry tree has dropped a smaller branch about 50m away, as shown below.
FoBH Tree Warden Roger Miles says that ‘the original ornamental cherries on Sandridge Road have once again demonstrated that they are at the safe end of their lives’.
Continue reading “Another cherry tree drops branch in Sandridge Road”
School Crossing Patrol wanted for
Bernards Heath Infant/Junior School.
Click here to find out more.
Round shot saved
A round shot from the second St Albans (1461) battlefield has been saved from going into a private collection by the Battlefields Trust and the St Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archaeological Society (SAHAAS).
The round shot was discovered by a metal detectorist in the Bernards Heath area of St Albans in 2014 and displayed at the St Albans Museum in an exhibition in 2016, but it was never returned to its owner after the exhibition. John Morewood, SAHAAS president, tracked it down to a dealer in antique arms in Brighton.
Continue reading “Wars of the Roses”
A walk within the parish of St Saviour’s with the Friends of Bernards Heath.
Start at St Saviour’s Church – end at the King Will.
