For the third successive year Hartland children carried off the shield at the Bude Methodist circuit youth council’s seventy youth eisteddfod. 

A total of 21 Hartland children, aged six to 14 years, were responsible for 123 entries and achieved the massive total of 1,744 points. Providence, one of the smallest schools, runners-up for the past four years, were pushed into third place by Morwenstow. 

Hartland results: Jennifer Allin; Hazel Bragg; Martin Colwill; Dwayne Heard; Wendy Heard; Alison Manley; Patrick O’Donnell, Sandra O’Donell, Andrew Prouse; Denise Short; Kenneth Sluggett; Jennifer Thorne; Tracy Thorne.

The full Gazette article is dated 6 April 1973