Hamstead Marshall
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latest news
5 March 2010
village events for the coming months
Hamstead Hornet
Curry and Quiz evening
Saturday 20 March in the village hall
Doors will open at 7pm for a 7.30 start
The meal will cater for all tastes (mild
to hot, vegetarian), and will be followed by a quiz devised by
Gail and Dennis Winter
Tickets are £12 per head, and tables
will be of six. Drinks will be available.
Profits will go to Sport Aid
phone her on 01488 658168.
What’s going on at...
The Hamstead Hornet has been recording
village news quarterly since December 1996. It is distributed
free to about 130 households within and close to the village.
Copies are also usually available from St Mary’s Church,
Hamstead and St Michael’s Church, Enborne, and they are
also filed in West Berks Library. If you would like to be
notified by email when each issue is posted online please ask here.
The canal just, west of Hamstead Lock
British waterways says that work is under way to
repair the canal bank to prevent water leaking from the canal
into the river course and private property, just downstream
from Hamstead Marshall road bridge. The works should be
completed mid to late March.
The field opposite Craven House
Saplings, undergrowth and scrub have been
cleared from the field margins, fences have been renewed and a
double gate entrance has been created opposite the Craven House
driveway. A contractor described this as just “tidying
up”.
St Mary’s Church
Work continues on replacing
weather-damaged brickwork on the 17th-century bell tower.
Considerable delays were caused by the cold weather in December
and January, during which specialised restoration materials
could not be used.
provisionally booked
Barn Dance
Saturday 29 May
at Elm Farm
music from
Max & Gerlinde Hunt
Tickets £10 to include a light
supper
Licensed bar
More details coming from Lanie Allen
Email or phone
her on 01488 658168
Saturday 27 March 10.00-12.00
churchyard working party
Everyone welcome to come and help spruce
up the churchyard
Please bring your own tools
Churchwardens will provide refreshments
afterwards
The benefice of West Woodhay, Hamstead
Marshall, Enborne, Combe, Inkpen and Kintbury has been renamed Walbury Beacon Benefice, and is soon to launch its own website.
Sue Watts is looking for support to
register the village hall field as
a village green, thus making it
eligible for grant money. A good idea? Tell
her what you think.
The Organic Research Centre (ORC) at Elm
Farm is planning to re-establish its vegetable garden and,
alongside this, is offering to share
its expertise in veg gardening with
local families. If you would like to develop your knowledge of
food growing send in your
suggestions as to what form such help might take.