Wednesday morning saw a group of ten keen Heath Handers wielding scythes and mattocks alongside the ‘ride’ which runs across Sandy Heath from the Spaniards to North End. The ‘ride’ would have been much more open 50-100 years ago – much more ‘heath-y’ with bare ground, gorse and grassland. However, the wide scale sand digging …
Sandy Heath
Leaves – dry leaves, wet leaves, drowned leaves…..
Dun coloured London plane tree leaves lying thick on the slope above the Boating Pond. Large and distinctive, stencilled out – three gently triangular sections meeting at the stem – each with its own main artery and branched veins. They look tired – a long hot summer – ready to crumble into mould. But look …
Sandy Heath
These days Sandy Heath seems a total misnomer for the precipitous, shadowy woodland, scattered with giant trees, that runs from Spaniards Road down to the Heath Extension. But this is the ridge of Bagshot Sands which runs east to west across the heath. ‘The Bagshot Sands’, says Helen Lawrence in How Hampstead Heath Was Saved, …