Friends of Therfield Heath and Greens The Friends of Therfield Heath and Greens had a stand at the Kite festival promoting our support and fund raising for the Heath. Congratulations to Royston Rotary for organising such a successful day. It was lovely to see so many people enjoy being on the Heath. If you collected […]
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Royston Kite Festival 2022 The people of Royston and surrounding villages turned out in their thousands on Sunday, August 7, for the soar-away success of the town’s revitalised Kite Festival. The Festival, organised by Royston Rotary Club, was returning to Therfield Heath after a gap of two years caused by the Covid pandemic. Rotary Club
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Therfield Heath Conservation What you might see happening on the Heath in August August will be a busy month for the Heath! You might see a fair amount of work going on around the site, all of which is occurring to help the ecology of the Heath, and help it continue to be a space
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Friends of Therfield Heath and Greens The Friends are giving away bee friendly flower seeds to members at the Royston Kite Festival on Sunday 7th August. Those who enquire about membership on the day will also receive flower seeds. The seeds are on eco-friendly, plantable paper with instructions on how to seed a corner of
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Therfield Heath Conservation – Benches and Burial Mounds on the Heath Therfield Heath contains a number of important archaeological remains, which together form one of the best surviving ancient landscapes in the county. The remains include a Neolithic long barrow and associated Bronze Age barrow cemetery (all scheduled); a length of Iron Age boundary ditches
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Friends of Therfield Heath and Greens There is a new bench on the Heath, funded by the Friends. Use it to rest your weary legs after a long walk or sit and watch your children play football. The bench is on Sun Hill Common where Sun Hill, Bridleway Way 13 and Briary Lane meet. Sun
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Friends of Therfield Heath and Greens In celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, the Friends will be planting a tree on the Heath. Two members of the committee will soon be visiting a specialist tree nursery to choose the tree and take advice about its planting and care until it is established. Every organisation in
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Therfield Heath Conservation -Tree maintenance on the Heath We have a wide variety of trees on the heath, being of chalk soil we mostly think of the Beech trees which seem to dominant the tree line towards the south in the woodland but there are more species to be found. Having seen the devastation seen
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Therfield Heath Conservation – History of Therfield Heath Written by Astrid Matthews Nowadays we’re lucky enough to use The Heath simply as a nature reserve, for long walks and picnics or a drink at the Heath Café Bar. There are many sports clubs based at The Heath and all around the villages surrounding it, including
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Friends of Therfield Heath and Greens Be careful where you tread! Spring is the time when you might see Toadflax Leaf beetles. Nationally scarce and on the Red List of threatened species, this beetle thrives in unmanaged grassland and open woodland. It feeds and breeds on the Common Toadflax plant. It has been spotted twice
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Friends of Therfield Heath and Greens A hardy group of twenty five people led by Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews, archaeologist and curator of Hitchin Museum, walked the Barrows of Therfield Heath. It was cold, wet and windy but Keith made our walk so fascinating it didn’t matter! There is one neolithic long barrow and a number of
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Therfield Heath Conservation – Pasque Flowers Written by Astrid Matthews Now that spring is upon us, let’s take a look at one of the new species of flora that you may spot reappearing at the Heath. Pasqueflowers, pulsatilla vulgaris, are a rare wildflower that bloom around Easter time on Therfield Heath. It is an incredibly
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