Event Series FOCS Summer Walking Festival

Liskeard OCS: Every Building Tells a Story (Bilingual Walk)

Westbourne Car Park 21 West Street, Liskeard, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Leaders– Brian Oldham and Rod Sheaf– Every Building Tells a Story (Bilingual Walk). As a part of both the Festival of Walks (www.kernowgoth.org) and the Speak Cornish Week (www.speakcornish.com) a circular walk of under one mile around Liskeard town centre will be hosted by Bard of the Gorsedh Kernow and Cornish speaker Rod Sheaf and […]

Crying the Neck – Liskeard

Cattle Market Car Park Dean Street, Liskeard, Cornwall, United Kingdom

This ancient pagan, but later Christianised, ceremony has been celebrated in Cornish farming communities for many centuries to give thanks at the end of Harvest time. After a prayer and a reading the last cut of corn (the neck) is raised amid set shouts and responses, all in both the Cornish and English languages. Visitors […]

Liskeard – Beating the Bounds

(Note: This is a Liskeard Council event with Liskeard OCS as an active participant) Liskeard Town Council have been organising their Beating of the Bounds for many years. The Liskeard OCS banner has always been present, but in recent years at the half-way lunch break at Treworgey Manor, Brian Oldham has shared a piece of […]

A walk around St Martin’s Churchyard, Liskeard

St Martin's Church Liskeard

Leader– Brian Oldham:  starting at the tower of St Martin's Church, the entrance to the Churchyard is from Church Street North at SX2539264448 or PL143AX. On street parking is on Church Street, Church Street South and Church Street North, or in Sungirt Car Park, off Bay Tree Hill, which is a short but steep walk […]