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St. Peter’s, Draycott

March 27, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

A lively, friendly village church, in a middle-sized village on the south slopes of the Mendip Hills in northern Somerset. Draycott is about half a mile from the village of Rodney Stoke, with our sister church of St. Leonard’s.

Events during the year include: Carol singing in the village, and carol services, at Christmas; a bible study group (during Lent we often combine with other churches in the Cheddar valley), and a harvest supper.

We also open the church to a variety of other functions, including fund raising concerts.

The church adjoins a thriving first school (Church of England Voluntary Aided; and contacts with the school are an important aspect of church life. The school regularly uses our building for assembly once a fortnight.
We are currently undertaking a major fundraising initiative for repairs to the roof and for interior redecoration.

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The Valley Diary

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The Valley Diary is a small printed publication which serves the villages of the Lavant Valley just outside Chichester in West Sussex, England, UK. The villages are Charlton, Chilgrove, East Dean, Singleton & West Dean.

The main purpose of The Valley Diary at it’s outset in 2004 was to publicise the forthcoming Diary of Events in the villages, to the people who live in them. Since then, The Valley Diary has developed to include some editorial content of interest to the people who live in the villages, reports and photos of events, quizzes and crosswords, news and reviews and various other content as submitted either regularly, occasional or just as one-offs.

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The Deddington News

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Right in the heart of England and on the edge of the Cotswolds you’ll find Deddington, Clifton and Hempton.

The parish lies south of Banbury, close to the M40.

It’s an ideal launching pad for some of England’s loveliest countryside, prettiest villages, grandest country homes and greatest seats of learning. Oxford, Stratford-upon-Avon, Blenheim and Silverstone are within easy reach, and that’s just for starters!

The DN was established in 1976 at the suggestion of Gerard Sullivan, with the first issue published in September of that year. It has been published continuously since then, under the consecutive editorship of a number of local residents:

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Denbury – Devon newsletter

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Denbury Village is situated in South Devon, England, between Totnes and Newton Abbot and about ten miles from Torquay .

The village has spectacular views of Dartmoor and is overlooked by Denbury Down, site of an ancient Celtic Hillfort. About 300 households including outlying farms.

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Acol Parish Council – Newsletter

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Acol (formerly Acholt) is a hamlet in the English county of Kent. Located about 1½ miles south of Birchington, close to the Western end of the runway at Manston Airport, it is one of the smallest communities in Kent.

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Our Lady & St. Joseph’s, Carlisle

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This Catholic parish encompasses three churches across a wide region from Carlisle in Cumbria to Alston in Tynedale;

The church of Our Lady and Saint Joseph in Warwick Square, Carlisle.

The chapel of ease of Saint Wulstan, Alston.

The chapel of Saint Gabriel’s Convent, Carlisle.

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Totternhoe Parish

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The Village of Totternhoe is situated in the southwest corner of the county near to the Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire borders in the lowlands of the Dunstable Downs Chiltern Hills near to Whipsnade Zoo and can be located under the OS Map Ref SP 985215. Other villages close by are Eaton Bray, Edlesborough and Stanbridge with the town of Dunstable about 3 miles away.

Population of the village is about 1090 mainly older people of which some have lived in the Village or close by all their lives, others moving in to the area over the years.

The village name has been recorded as long ago as 1086 when it was pronounced from 2 words and spelt ‘Totene’ ’hou’ meaning a ‘look out house’ and a’spur’. The ‘Knolls’ which form part of the village escarpment at one end had at one time been a fine Norman Keep and was considered a fine Motte and Bailey castle.

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Ash Parish Council newsletter

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The Parish of Ash, in Surrey, though quite small, is the most heavily populated of the rural parishes within the Borough of Guildford. It covers some four square miles in the extreme west of the Borough extending north to south along the river Blackwater which forms the Hampshire boundary with the towns of Aldershot and Farnborough immediately beyond.

In times past Ash was a very sparsely populated parish on the southern edge of the Windsor Great Forest but in recent years has grown into a continuous residential area with a population that could shortly reach 18,000.

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Allithwaite Upper Parish Council

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The Parish of Allithwaite Upper comprises the villages of Lindale, Low and High Newton, Cumbria,  with a population of 824 according to the 2001 census. 

Lindale’s major claim to fame is that it was the former home to John Wilkinson who built the world’s first iron ship. John Wilkinson, an ironmaster lived at nearby Castle Head, a mansion once housing St Mary’s college.

In the 1700s he and his father, Isacc, began an iron industry in the village.

A memorial to him sits near the crossroads on the way to Grange.

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Lindal and Marton community website

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Place names in Cumbria arise from a variety of languages and periods of history. These include Old English, spoken by the Anglo-Saxons from the 6th to 12th centuries, and Old Norse, spoken by the Norwegians who colonised north west England from the 9th to the 12th centuries.

The name Lindal (originally Lindale) is probably of Norse origin, derived from ‘Linden’, an alternative name for a Lime tree, and ‘dale’ meaning valley, ie valley of Lime trees. However, it is also possible that the name is of Celtic origin, meaning village around a deep pond.

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