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GRAVE CONCERNS
Many of our older churchyard memorial stones are waring away
Joe Charlesworth church warden has a project to photograph and record the gravestones most of which date from the 1800's and to transcribe burial records from the 1600's onto a computer database to help relatives to trace their family ancestry.
The Church Roof Fund website will eventually be a gateway to these grave records.
If you would like to know more about the project please contact Joe joe@alexc.com
PARISH COUNCIL
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JOB VACANCIES
Volunteer to be Treasurer For Heytesbury Church
Approx. 2 – 3 hours per Month
Basic Book Keeping
Retiring Treasurer willing to give on-going help
Applicants need not be members of Heytesbury Church
Contact: Tina Sitwell 840556
THE HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN
VACANCIES
We have a number of flats available for people in need. If you or anyone you know is interested in accommodation here please contact our Administrator by email or 01985 840441.
Email administratorsj@btconnect.com
The Parish Council meets monthly at 7.15 pm on the last Tuesday of each month at Heytesbury School, the public always welcome,
No meeting in December, January meeting is held mid-month.
Heytesbury Annual Duck Race
Saturday 26th March 2016, starts as usual at Tytherington Road bridge, the ducks costs £1 each and raise money for the local church and other good causes, the ducks meander along the flowing river Wylye for nearly 2 miles long the way carefully guided but not helped by diving suited villagers all in the name of fair play.
The ducks are followed along the riverbank by their owners to Park Lane bridge after negotiating Heytesbury Mill more photo's on our Events page
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War Memorial
Raymond Hall High St Heytesbury
In 1926 the Rev. J. Raymond bought an old malt house from the Heytesbury Estate. In 1936 it was presented to the village by his widow for use as a village hall, after which it was known as Raymond Hall. It closed in 1975 when it was declared unsafe and was sold as a private house in 1982.
New Rods and Roses for Heytesbury’s War Memorial, the parish council inspection by Peter Sincock found a large crack in the memorial stone, further investigations with a metal detector found a metal dowel within the cross local craftsman Robert Fleming used new metal fixings and repointing to repair the fracture, in the last few weeks resident Alfie Oates finished planting new roses at its base on behalf of Heytesbury Women’s Section of the Royal British Legion.
Residents in Heytesbury benefit from a second public access defibrillator, the residents and trustees of St John's decided recently to share the costs of a 4 year loan scheme with the South Western Ambulance Trust
Helen Johnson House Supervisor (pictured above) said "The machine is located in the covered walkway near to the chapel and is available to anyone one who is in need, on calling 999 the control room operator will be able to inform the public of the nearest available machine, we check the machine regularly to insure it is always rescue ready and will arrange training evenings with the Heytesbury Defib Guardians.
Vanessa Sturmey secretary to the Heytesbury defib Guardians said " This is great news for residents and visitors to Heytesbury and means life saving equipment is never far away"
Heytesbury church is the physical heart of our village and our vision is to transform it into the spiritual and communal heart for the entire community. Since the great fire in the 18th century the church has served as a refuge for the village as well as for travellers and has been the site of national celebrations, moments of joy and times of sadness for the community. We have great expectations for our church, that it may become a vibrant hub for our community and its heritage, a place for friendship and activity and once again, its communal heart.
More can be found at http://www.heytesburychurch.org/
Heytesbury Church hope to make major changes to the Church to create toilets, catering, improve heating and provide meeting spaces for community use and would love to hear your views, please take part in the survey deadline Friday 11th March.
Message from Justin Wagstaff, Chair of Heytesbury and Sutton Veny CC
"Happy New Year, and although the weather is not exactly fit for cricket, we are starting to think about this forthcoming season.
Our 5 young players who were selected for District and or County are about to start their winter programmes, and a couple of Dad’s are starting their coaching Courses. Which is brilliant
Looking further ahead we will hope to start on or about Sunday 25th April for the U9s and minis. I hope to have a full list of Festivals etc for the U9s and other things for the little ones.
We will also this year be starting an Under 11 team (yes we are excited) who will play their matches on Sunday mornings.
That means we need as many parents to put their hands up to help with admin/ team mangers/ coaching etc as possible. You don’t have to be good a cricket to help out, and if you are there watching...you may as well help
http://hsvcc.org.uk/index.html
Please use the team email address warminsternpt@wiltshire.pnn.police.uk to report issues of local concern in your neighbourhood - this email
address should not be used to report crime - please call 101 to report minor crimes. In an emergency, when life is in danger or a crime in progress, dial 999
It's BT Openreach’s job to look after the UK's communications network. They do this for you their customers, the communications providers (CPs), who supply phone, broadband and even TV services to homes and businesses.
Right now they’re upgrading the network, by laying fibre optic cables over the current copper lines. Using £2.5 billion committed by BT Group to make superfast fibre broadband available to two-thirds of the homes in Britain by end Spring 2014.
Fibre can carry massive amounts of information over much longer distances than copper – and much faster too. In speed terms, you're talking downloads of up to 300Mbit/s and uploads of up to 30Mbit/s. And that's just the start. It won't be long until people are demanding even faster speeds and we're already testing a 1Gbit/s fibre service.
http://www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/where-and-when/
Update from Wiltshire Council
We are pleased to inform you that fibre broadband has been brought to your community as part of Wiltshire Council’s Wiltshire Online programme.
Please help us to share this good news as we want as many residents as possible to benefit from Wiltshire Council’s investment.
Residents can check if they are able to benefit from this investment by using the postcode checker on the Wiltshire Online website – www.wiltshireonline.org
Although residents will not automatically receive the improved service, upgrading to fibre broadband is very simple, just a matter of contacting an Internet Service Provider.
Access Opportunities on the Defence Estate Salisbury Plain Wiltshire
A long distance circular walk around the Imber Live Firing Range giving views across Salisbury Plain and the
surrounding Wiltshire and Somerset countryside.
Salisbury Plain Army Training Estate (ATE SP) is one of the most well known areas of all the MOD land.
The Army has been connected with Salisbury Plain since 1897 and the total area of the current estate is just over 38,000 hectares. It is 25 miles by 10 miles (40km by 16km) and occupies about one ninth of the area of Wiltshire. In terms of land use, much of the land is let to farmers or is grazed under licence.
Approximately 12,150 hectares of the land is used for live firing and as impact areas. Public access is permanently restricted in certain areas for safety reasons.
The 30 mile (48km) circular walk follows the perimeter of the Imber Firing Range Danger Area (Imber Range Perimeter Path - IRPP). The route is marked with waymarkers following mostly defined tracks and paths. However, it is strongly recommended that an OS1:25,000 map is used at all times along with this website as there are certain sections of the walk where the route is not entirely clear on the ground or
waymarked. It must be noted that there are additional concrete MOD roads on the ground not shown on the OS Explorer maps, so care should be taken to ensure that you are on the designated route. It is possible to start the walk from various points along the route
where there are car parking facilities and access to local transport. This description starts from the ridge above the Westbury White Horse A and describes the complete circuit. It is possible however to just do short sections of the circuit.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/27468/SalisburyPlain.pdf