On Saturday 26th April, our 2025 series of Harford Special Spaces got off to a great start with an excellent breakfast from 8.30am -10am, followed by clearing and mapping graves in the front church yard. For details of the walk in May and of all Harford Special Spaces events across the summer, see the poster…More
Category Archives: Spirit of the Moor
Come and Clean a Grave Day – Saturday 26th April 10am – 1pm
Harford Special Spaces 2025
In 2025 our Special Spaces theme is ‘Grave Matters’, based principally around the Harford churchyard. We are digitally remapping and creating a database of the St Petroc’s graveyard this year and need help to tidy up and research this fascinating place, where memorials and headstones chronicle the lives of people with a Harford connection from…More
Celebrate World Rivers Day – Saturday 21st September
Join us for a delicious cooked breakfast at Harford Church from 8.30 – 10am on Saturday 21st September ( small donation requested) or just come for the walk to Piles Copse, starting at 10am from the church. Wear stout shoes/walking boots, bring lunch and a swimming costume, if you think you might be up for…More
Celebrate National Bog Day Saturday 27th July 2024
Our next parish breakfast will be from 8.30 – 10am on Saturday 27th July, cooked by Masterchef Paul Alexander. A small donation is requested to cover food costs. Following the breakfast, John Howell will lead a guided walk to the peat rewetting project at Left Lake to celebrate National Bog Day. This peat bog is part of…More
Guided walk on Harford Moor to celebrate National Bog Day – 27th July
On Saturday 27th July there will be a Special Spaces guided walk to the peat-rewetting project near Left Lake to mark National Bog Day, leaving Harford Church immediately after the monthly parish breakfast in the church 8.30 – 10am ( small donation requested). Wear boots or strong shoes and bring a packed lunch to eat…More
Beautiful weather for the Beating of the Bounds on Saturday 29th June
We had beautiful weather for the Beating of the Southern Bounds of East Harford on 29th June, ending up in the Harford churchyard to eat our packed lunches and cake. On Saturday 27th July there will be a Special Spaces guided walk to the peat-rewetting project near Left Lake to mark National Bog Day, leaving…More
Beating of the Southern Bounds of East Harford – Saturday 29th June
Join us for the Beating of the Bounds of the southern half of East Harford on Saturday 29th June, starting at the church at 10am, heading up to the boundary stones above Bullaven Hill as if going to Spurrell’s Cross, turning south along the boundary to the Western Beacon, down to the marker stone by…More
St Petroc’s Walk Harford to South Brent 10am Saturday 25th May
On Saturday 25th May a delicious cooked breakfast will be served in St Petroc’s Church, Harford, from 8.30 to 10am to which everyone is welcome. Following this will be our annual St Petroc’s Walk, starting from St Petroc’s, Harford just after 10am and ending at St Petroc’s, South Brent between 12.30 and 1pm. This is…More