CHADRA

If you have ever pondered the purpose behind CHADRA you had one answer a month or so ago. Within hours of hearing that plans were afoot to dump rubbish by the ton, and by the year, on the fringe of the village, an emergency meeting of your Committee was in session.

The decision was taken to register objection, make the fears of the village known and to see that ALL Charfield knew what was proposed. At the moment the matter appears dormant, but you can be assured your Committee will keep the issue under review ready to act again should they be needed.

In the words attributed to a Churchillian memo it was a case of “Action this day”.

And that is what CHADRA is about. A body ready to act quickly if it feels your interests, and the interests of the community, is under threat.

Now, sadly, I vacate the chair I took four issues ago. It is with profound regret but pressure on my time makes it impossible for me to tackle the editorship in the way I would like. So I am now appealing for someone to take my place. I can assure you it is a job that gives immense satisfaction and pleasure. If you feel you would like to don the eyeshade then please contact, as soon as possible, Mrs. Marion Smith on Falfield 26xxxx. She will be delighted to hear from you.

Before I go, my thanks to all who have helped me during the year – particularly to Marion who is a tireless worker for the village – to those who deliver the NEWSLETTER, the students who type the words and the correspondents who quarterly provide the material. My thanks too, to Mr. and Mrs. Butler, who have volunteered to take over the actual printing, as from this issue. I wish you all every success in 1982 and onwards.

Which, of course, then brings me to wishing everyone, on behalf of CHADRA, a Merry Christmas and Happy and more Prosperous New year.

And to the corps of correspondents, your next deadline, please, is 7th January 1982.

Geoff Thornton

If you have any plants or shrubs you do not want, we are having the borders around the car park tidied up, and wish to plant shrubs, etc. Please contact me and I can arrange to collect.

M. Clarke, Secretary

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I am sure that everybody who came to the joint schools orchestral concert in July enjoyed it very much. There was an excellent variety in the programme and obviously a great deal of thought and practice had gone into the performance and I would like to thank all those who were responsible for this, by no means least the children who performed.

It may well be that this NEWSLETTER will be in your possession by the beginning of October and so I am including a notice that relates to the early part of the month. We are holding our annual BAZAAR at the Village Hall on Saturday, October 3rd beginning at 2.30 pm … Many of you will be familiar with this event and will remember it as a happy and interesting occasion with not only the opportunity to acquire bargains – sometimes, perhaps, Christmas presents – but also the opportunity of meeting and talking to others. Even if you should not be able to read this before the event, there will be abundant advertisement in the village and elsewhere, so we hope for a good number. Do make a point of coming yourself and inviting your friends to accompany you.

We are also having a Misperfects Sale at the Village Hall on Thursday October 22nd (8 pm). Some of you will know that this is a sale of very high quality “seconds” of new ladies', gentlemen's and children's clothes. The very high quality is stressed because some “seconds” are obviously so and the relatively poor quality is reflected in the price. Misperfects is a firm that deals only with the highest quality goods, some of which are without flaw at all. We had one of these sales in June and are repeating the event because there were so many present that obviously a local need was being met. Over £500 worth of clothes were sold on that occasion which is an indication of the popularity of the event. Again, this will be well advertised before the day and this is just an additional reminder.

A Jumble Sale is being held at Charfield School on Saturday, November 7th between 10.30 am and 12.30 pm. This will clearly include more than jumble and there will be a number of allied attractions. It is another event to make a note of please, and to make a point of attending.

The following day, Sunday November 8, is REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY. This is normally a well-attended service in the morning but there is STILL room in Church and I would like to encourage others to make the effort to come.

We have a short Act of Remembrance of no more than five minutes at the War Memorial followed by a short service in Church. We all owe an enormous debt to those who, in the past, sacrificed their lives, or their health, in the cause of freedom from tyranny and it is still, I think, a good thing to remember what others have done for us in this way AND, most important, to make an act of dedication ourselves to establish in the world, and that means in our own network of relationships that peace, goodwill and daily helpfulness which alone can improve the quality of life – the REAL standard of living.

We also on the same day have a United Service with our friends of Charfield Congregational Church and this year the service will be at ST JOHN'S CHURCH at 3 pm. Again, I do hope this will be well attended.

And then we shall have Christmas upon us again. Our traditional, and always well attended, Carol Service is held the Sunday before Christmas … that is Sunday, December 20th at 3 pm. Our Christmas Midnight Mass is held on Christmas Eve at 11.30 pm. Do remember what Christmas is about by sharing these Services with us …

3In the last NEWSLETTER you may remember we suggested that in this Centenary Year we would like to make a gift to ST JOHN'S CHURCH of a new organ. I would like to thank all those who generously responded to that appeal. It is not easy to keep up to date with figures that are constantly changing as donations have continued to be made for which I am most grateful. So far we can sum up the situation by saying that we have had an encouraging start but have still a long way to go before achieving our objective.

I know we all forget letters that are put through our letterbox! Perhaps this may be a reminder to those who intended to do something but it has slipped their mind. Never mind if you have lost the letter: there are some spare copies in church, or you can just slip in a piece of note paper with your paper note (or cheque)! God, we are told, loves a cheerful giver. May He bless you.

Kenneth G Grant
Rector

Since we are totally self-supporting we find it unfortunately necessary to increase our charges for the car transport scheme.

Charges for the RETURN journey are:-

Any request for lifts should be made to Mrs Blower of xx Manor Lane, Charfield, Tel Falfield 26xxxx.

Mrs Blower would also be very pleased to hear of anyone able to offer lifts within this scheme.

I would like to raise a point about litter and dumping of rubbish in and around the village. As an inhabitant of New Street I am appalled at the amount of refuse recently being dumped on the small track that leads from New Street to the railway line. Surely it is not too much to ask of people to put their rubbish out on the appropriate day so that the Council can take it away. After all, this is why we pay rates, isn't it? If the items are too large a simple telephone call to Chipping Sodbury is all you need to do to arrange a special collection instead of turning what used to be a pleasant walk into an eyesore.

Mervyn Hawish
Lilymead
xx New Street

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HARVEST THANKSGIVING

Saturday October 3rd   GIFT DAY

Gifts of fruit, flowers and vegetables gratefully received which afterwards will be sent to the Salvation Army. Also gifts of money for Church Funds.

WHY NOT COME AND JOIN US?

Any inquiries to: Miss M Turner, xx The Green, Charfield. Tel: Falfield 26xxxx

STILL SAY HALLELUJAH

I will bless the Lord at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth. Psalm 34–1.

This story from the childhood of the late missionary Mary D Kimbrough especially warmed my heart. It was during the great depression in America and money and jobs were scarce. When the winter months came on, her family began to be in great distress because her father, who was employed in a local bakery, had been injured by a heavy machine and was unable to work. Their money was soon gone and their large flour bins empty. Her devout mother never lost faith however that the Lord would supply their needs. She had determined with the Psalmist to bless the Lord at all times; so she said “How many of you still have faith to say “Hallelujah” even though we have an empty flour bin?” A few minutes later the phone rang. It was the baker calling “A batch of bread was burned. Could you folks use some?” Could they! Mary and her two little sisters were dancing about with joy when the jolly breadman arrived and began piling golden-brown loaves of bread, buns and cookies on their kitchen table! Says Mary Kimbrough “They weren't burned – just a bit too brown to sell – but they were delicious to our family who had trusted God for our Daily bread.”

Have you ever stood facing an empty bin when earthly resources seemed at an end and the prospects for the future were dim? Did you have the grace then to turn it all over to the Lord without murmuring?

You will find He will never let you down if you just have faith to say “hallelujah” anyway.

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I referred in the last issue to a change in Avon's admission policy whereby children could start school at the beginning of the school year (September) in which they have their fifth-birthday. Most parents have taken advantage of this change and the under-fives are in school although the younger of them are attending part-time for the first half of the term.

We have altered the organisation of the infant classes so that the under-fives are in separate classrooms with Mrs Peer who has had experience with nursery classes. We are also fortunate in having Miss Robinson, a nursery nurse who trained to work with this age group. These children need a different environment from the older children and their activities are designed to give them the experience on which to build in later years. Learning is disguised as play because the early years at school must be enjoyable. Hard work may be a virtue but children will not discover this at four and five years of age. Building learning on the play instinct is far more economical and efficient than forced labour.

I am sorry to rival some of the shops in anticipating Christmas in September but I would like to publish a few dates now. We have had some unfortunate clashes with other organisations in the village in the past, when, for instance, children have left a school party to go straight on to another party. Needless to say, some were missing from school next morning!

Mr D A Malpass
Headmaster

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Some of you will say “Where was the article in the last issue of the NEWSLETTER”. My simple answer is that I did not write one. At the Annual General Meeting the Chairman did not seek re-election, and as I did not receive a copy of the NEWSLETTER I did not know the Editor's deadline date.

I can only reiterate what Mr Isherwood has written about the Club and its Activities. We are pleased to welcome new members to our meetings – They are only one-and-a-half hours a fortnight.

Some of our members are in the 80-plus age group … some are in failing health. But as they are willing to come we have a mini-bus to collect them and to take them home afterwards. So there is no excuse that “My poor legs won't let me”.

We have speakers who tell us of their experiences in foreign lands – like Malaya or the Holy Land – often illustrated with slides … artistes, like violinists playing popular tunes (we have had two teenagers playing together on the piano, tunes for yester-year and songs from the musicals.

We may be over 60 but we don't feel it and in the lighter days we have one or two outings. We had a half-day at Hereford in July … Weymouth in August and Swanage in September. So it is not always a trip to Weston – though personally I like Weston.

On Wednesday October 7 the club will hold a BRING AND BUY SALE to help defray the cost of hiring the Village Hall etc – SO PLEASE SUPPORT US IN THIS ACTIVITY.

Hoping to meet you every Wednesday fortnight for a chat, a cup of tea and finally an hour out of the house.

Ernest H Orton
Chairman
Falfield 26xxxx

Mr and Mrs Iliffe would like to extend a very big thank you to the FRIENDSHIP CLUB, LUNCHEON CLUB AND STREET WARDEN SCHEME for all the help and kindness shown to them during their stay in Charfield.

They have now moved to a new home – xxxx House, Earlstone Crescent, Cadbury Heath, Bristol BS15 5AA – and will be very pleased to see anyone who is in the area.

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The Playscheme this year was a week earlier than on previous occasions and coincided with the week of the Royal Wedding. Thought was given to the concept of programming the two days leading up to the big occasion with games or events with the wedding in mind but this was later modified to the making of cardboard models or hats, together with drawing, crayoning and painting by the younger children.

On the eve of the Royal Wedding, nearly 200 children and monitors participated in a well prepared tea party organised by Mrs M Burden, and I would like to record my appreciation of her help in this direction.

All told, 146 children registered for the Playscheme. Some come for every possible session, while others varied according to their family holidays, so the daily attendance fluctuated but never fell below 66, if one adds both morning and afternoon sessions together.

For the major part of the project we were blessed with excellent weather, but with the onset of wet weather we had to cancel our proposed walk to North Nibley and make good use of the School Hall instead.

Our day out to the Stroud Leisure Centre during the first week was impeded by the late arrival of the two coaches, due to the firm confusing the booking arrangements, but this was compensated by arranging a later return and the children took full advantage of this as they bathed in the outdoor or indoor swimming pools.

It was very encouraging this year to have miscellaneous help from what – for want of a better description – I would refer to as monitors. Some I was expecting but others came on an ad-hoc basis, but they were a useful supplement to help provided by parents who also came for one session or another. I would express my particular thanks to Nicola Pratley, Beverly Smith, John Quick and Paul Hatt for their loyal support.

I would also express my thanks to the National School Foundation Governors for the use – without charge – of the Foundation Room and to the school authorities for the use of the school playing field, toilet facilities and, under adult supervision, the adventure playground.

This year the new school hall proved a boon and fully justified any rental we paid for its use. Both in good weather and in wet it proved an excellent venue for the many younger ones who wished to draw and paint.

Finally I would once more thank the offer of tutoring from the Charfield Tennis Club, even though our take-up this year was limited.

D W Parker

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At the start of this term we find our numbers reduced by the decision to admit 4-plus years children to Primary School. We have been able to keep one afternoon session open but have closed the Wednesday afternoon session until numbers increase.

On the whole we are lucky. Parents have responded to our offer of extra sessions for their children and are happy to give extra help as well. Some playgroups in Avon are in danger of closing as the numbers are so small.

This is a great pity, as I am sure everyone involved in Playgroup appreciates it is an important link for all the families of pre-school children in this area.

Thursday October 22nd   Open Afternoon   2 pm

Monday December 14th   Christmas Party Village Hall

Please make sure your child's name is put on the waiting list as soon as possible and keep your eyes open for the new families with potential playgroup children.

The Open Afternoon on October 22nd is especially for the future playgroup families. It is an opportunity to meet the supervisors and also the new committee. We will have all the playgroup toys and materials exhibited SO PLEASE COME ALONG AND MEET US.

A Wood
Playgroup Leader

What has happened to the Charfield Drama Group? When we moved into the village three years ago there was such a thing, but all the enthusiasm seems to have waned. There must be quite a few people living in the village now that have the appropriate talents to form a small society to bring entertainment back to the village.

Mervyn Hewish
Lilymead
xx New Street
Charfield

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The W I is at the moment enjoying a quiet spell after the functions of the summer months.

Those of you who went to St John's Church during the Centenary festivities will no doubt have peeped at the scrapbook that was on view during that week. What an interesting book – don't you agree?

If you have recently moved to Charfield and are feeling rather lonely please do come along to our next meeting – or any meeting. Next time we meet is October 8 when a demonstration of ribbon flowers will be given, and should prove very interesting.

You are probably wondering just what we do at a meeting. Well, first we have a business half-hour when the minutes of the last meetings are attended to which consists of functions, conferences, social evenings, skittles matches etc. (All quite voluntary I assure you). After the speaker, or demonstration, which usually lasts an hour we break for home-made cakes and coffee – very nice too. Then it is a get-together for a chat, or maybe a discussion or quiz game, usually members just like to catch up with local news. Around 10 pm we make our way back home, so it's really not too long away. WHY NOT COME ALONG?

With evenings drawing in we are thinking of making gifts for the Christmas Bazaar in November. This year we are hoping to have more stalls with plenty of gifts and bargains for all. REMEMBER THE DATE: NOVEMBER 28 AT 2.15 PM.

See you around

Pat White
President

Our first ever coach trip to Burford Wildlife Park on June 24 was a great success and was enjoyed by all who came along.

A Thank You to all Mums who helped on Sports Day with our quizzes, and a special Thank You to all involved in the preparation of the stall as we won the £5 prize for the best Stall of the Day.

We are holding the following parties in aid of Club funds … Please come along and support us.

We are also hoping to have a Mums Night Out on November 25 – venue to be decided. Please contact one of the committee if you would like to join us.

Denise Jarvis
Secretary

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Many people ask us what type of queries we get in the Citizens Advice Bureau. And we always say we deal with every known problem. Rents, rates, matrimonial, family and personal, Department of Health and Social Security and legal matters are only a few.

So our slogan should really be “PROBLEMS UNLIMITED”.

We have a vast library of information which is continually being updated as legislation is changed, so we can offer realistic advice on most matters and if further help from a specialist agency is required we know exactly who to contact.

Our service is free, confidential and impartial. We are trained to listen, to advise and NOT to dictate. We offer a service to EVERY member of the community, young and old – so try us, we are here to help. This year more than 4 million queries have been dealt with by the 700-odd CAB'S throughout Britain, so there IS a need for our service.

There continue to be delays with benefit payments for: RETIREMENT AND WIDOWS PENSIONS, UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT, SICKNESS AND INVALIDITY BENEFIT.

New pensions claims will continue to get paid at a temporary rate. Anyone who has been getting a temporary rate might have to wait several months for this to be adjusted and arrears to be paid.

CHILD BENEFIT

Many people will continue to be paid on the stubs of their old books. New books are being issued gradually and no-one should have to wait more than seven weeks for their new book. Most people who have claimed benefit for a new child should get a first payment by the end of September.

The organiser will continue to attend the FRIENDSHIP CLUB meetings in the Village Hall to assist Senior Citizens with any problems.

Your nearest CAB is at Berkeley House, Long Street, Wotton-Under-Edge every Tuesday and Thursday from 10 am to 1 pm (Tel W-U-E 3210). At other times phone Stroud 2084 where CAB is open Monday to Friday (10 am to 4 pm) and on Saturday 9.30 am to 11.30 am.

Dursley CAB is open each Friday (10 am to 2 pm) at The Tabernacle, Parsonage Street, Dursley (Tel Dursley 4xxxx).

If you are interested in helping with the ever-increasing work of the CAB please contact the organiser at any of the above addresses when information may be had about training.

Jean McGonnigill
Organiser.

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THANKS TO YOU

Mrs Marion Smith, on behalf of the association, would like to thank everybody in the village who contributed to the above collection which raised the grand total of £91.

Area collections were:-

Many many thanks
Marion Smith
Local Secretary

If you have access to any stamps, British or foreign, Mrs Smith would appreciate it if you could pop them into an envelope and slot them through her letter box at xxx Manor Lane, Charfield. Any number of stamps will be gratefully received and sent on to raise money for charity.

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Your local Citizens Band radio club would like to take this opportunity to offer their services should they be needed, to any member of the community.

It seems that nowadays, the only times the general public get to read or hear anything about CB radio it is always bad. For instance probably the last article that was published in a national newspaper as regards CB gave details of how some brainless lunatic directed the crowd violence in Toxteth. Before that we had a detailed description in the Daily Mirror on the 1st May of how baby Diana Moss picked up some bad language over her baby alarm, which was supposedly receiving signals from the local CB'ers.

These and other such instances of sheer stupidity by a fringe minority tends to lead to the community painting all CB enthusiasts with the same tar brush.

However, there is another side to the coin, for instance, how many people know of the numerous instances throughout the Country, where local CB clubs have provided an invaluable service to the community. As in the case of clubs who because of their ability for fast communication and subsequent action, have been able to locate and return lost children and animals and find stolen cars etc.

The national press seems to ignore these acts of valuable public service and throw them out in favour of the more scandalous stories which reach them. As regards bad language, anyone who has ever listened to a CB radio, or is the owner of one, will be very much aware of the noticeable absence of foul language which in point of fact is frowned upon by any serious CB user.

Anyway the local CB club “Wooltown Breakers” would like to take this opportunity of offering their services – should they be needed – to any member of the community. Also, if anyone is experiencing TV interference, “TVI” or interference on HI-FI or music centre equipment, would they please let us know and we will try to get it stopped.

The telephone number to contact for any of the above is:-

W.U.Edge xxxx

‘PLEASE HELP US TO HELP YOU’

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This summer has proved to be an active one for the Residents' Association Committee. A number of events calling for urgent action have met with an immediate response from all concerned.

Firstly, as a result of our appeal in the last Newsletter for someone to take over the duplicating task from Mrs Marion Smith, we are most grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Butler for offering their services in duplicating the Newsletter a time consuming task, with over 450 copies to run off! I feel sure all our readers will join me in a vote of thanks to Marion Smith for her devotion to this task over the years.

Coming almost on top of this was the news from the firm who service the duplicating machine, that to correct the many faults the machine has developed would cost nearly as much as a newer, reconditioned machine. An emergency Committee meeting was held to discuss all the possibilities, and a decision was made to replace the machine with a reconditioned one, as the Newsletter future looks assured with sales increasing every issue. The £250 that this cost, has made a big hole in our budget, and it is for this reason that we shall be holding fund-raising functions, the first of which – a date to note – will be a slide show in the Village Hall on Thursday 1st October. A collection will be made at the door, and refreshments will be charged for, but entry to watch the slides is free. We have also found it necessary to increase the price of the Newsletter; however I feel sure this will not be considered unreasonable.

Another emergency Committee Meeting was called as a result of a planning application to fill in the former clay workings at Tortworth Copse with “putrescible domestic waste”, the proposed amount being one million tons dumped over fifteen years – or in practical terms 24 ten-ton lorry loads every day for fifteen years. Mr. David Parker, Chairman of the Parish Council, very kindly attended the meeting, expressing the Parish Council view that the Residents association could be of assistance in representing the residents interests. Mr Parker furnished the information relating to this application, and the meeting agreed that our disapproval of a 27-acre rubbish tip less than half a mile from the village should be brought to the attention of local papers and radio. Letters were also written to the local authorities involved. It has also been suggested that the strongest form of protest would be for individual residents to write to the County Planning officer at this address:

M. C. Beese, County Planning Officer, County of Avon, P.O. Box 46, Avon House North, St James' Barton, Bristol.

As a result of the protests and publicity concerning this application, the County Council have agreed to defer their decision until November, so please make your feelings known by writing.

Finally, and regrettably, our very fine Editor, Geoff Thornton, is unable to continue in this role. I am appealing therefore, on behalf of all the readers of Newsletter, for anyone who feels he/she would like to take on the Editorship to contact Mrs Marion Smith, xxx Manor Lane (Falfield 26xxxx). Please call if you feel you can help – WE NEED A NEW EDITOR.

Dave Beer
Chairman

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Parish Council meetings are held on the second Tuesday in the month at 7.30 p.m. in the Foundation Room at Charfield School. Agendas for the meetings are posted on the notice boards as are the notices of any extra-ordinary meetings.

A great deal of concern was expressed at the recent meeting of the Parish Council regarding the application for planning permission by Terry Addams Ltd. to extract celestite and tip household rubbish in the ‘Clay Pit’ in Tortworth Copse. This application involves a new road access, obvious disruption caused by increased heavy traffic, the nuisance of dust, the loss of a considerable number of trees but most important one million tonnes of rotting household waste on the doorstep of the Parish – all this over an approx. 20 year period.

This site does have permission to tip to fill and level the site and when the recent application first came to the Council's attention there was nothing to indicate any deviation from the previous permission. However because of the recent changes in Planning Control the Council later received further information from the County Planning Dept. giving more detailed information. A strong objection to the proposals was made and it is understood that Northavon District Council have also objected.

However despite considerable pressure by the Parish Council on the County Planning Officers and the Chairman of the County Planning Committee, so far the County Officials are unwilling to attend a meeting in Charfield to explain in more detail what this application involves. The Parish Council is continuing its pressure for further information, but they understand that following a site meeting the County will make their decision on this application on 16th October.

Another very serious topic was brought to the attention of the Council by their Memorial Hall Committee Representative Mr. Poskett, who said that youths congregating in the entrance to the Hall had pulled out the new telephone cable and other electricity supply wires, and that a quantity of burnt paper had been found under and surrounding the entrance doors. The Committee decided in an effort to prevent access to the porch, to seek quotations for porch doors to cover the present entrance. Considerable concern was expressed by Councillors as well as members of the Memorial Hall Management Committee that youths living in the village see fit to cause such damage to a village amenity, which is a Charitable Trust relying solely on volunteer effort and public support. The question was raised ‘do the parents of these youngsters know where they are and what they are doing?’ Councillors were sure that there were no parents in the village who would like to know it was their child involved in attempting to set fire to the Hall, damaging the wiring, breaking glass, emptying litter bins and even urinating in the entrance porch. Without the support of the parents, co-operation of the young people, and public spirited support by all residents in the village it would not be possible to prevent future unsocial acts.

The Parish Council heard recently that the District Council is investigating the possibility of legal action to force the developer of the final stretch of Manor Lane to tidy the site. Residents affected by this nuisance are asked to write to the District Council in support of any such action. In the meantime the Parish Council would like to point out that tipping garden and other rubbish on this site only makes the situation worse and is a most anti-social act.

Clerk to the Council

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[Map illustration]

Footpath 24 to Wickwar

Footpath 24 shown on the map is a very direct route to Wickwar – or would be if there were fewer obstacles on the correct line of the path.

Wickwar makes an interesting objective for a walk. It is now a village similar in size to Charfield but it once was a busy country market town.

Figures relating to 1690's from Sir Robert Atkyns ‘The Ancient and present State of Glostershire’ (1712)
	Houses	People
Charfield	30	145
Wickwar	220	1000

It takes its name from the family of John la Warre who was confirmed in possession of the manor by King John in 1107. According to Atkyns, his great grandson, Roger la War, purchased from Edward I in 1287 a weekly Tuesday market and a three day annual fair at Whitsun.

The High Street is wide and was clearly once the site of the market. If you explore at the back of the High Street, you will discover the long burgage plots that lie behind the properties lining the street. At some time in the middle ages this was Wick New Town laid out by an enterprising Lord of the Manor.

The northern end of the town, where you arrive on the footpath, was greatly changed by the building of the railway which was completed in 1844. The railway disappears into a tunnel immediately to the west of the path from the Church to the road. This embanked path now crossing above the railway, once formed the dam at the lower end of a large lake, on the far side of which had been a Tudor mansion, Pool House. All that remains of the house are the terraced gardens, the lake having been drained before the construction of the railway tunnel. The round structure, like a short dovecote, just below the terraced gardens is the vent to the railway tunnel.

A new and very large rectory was built in 1864 to the west of the Church. An older rectory now being part of the house nearer the Downs Road. The ‘new’ rectory was sold some time ago and the present rector lives at the south end of the High Street. If you would like to look inside the Church, you would be advised to make arrangements to borrow the key before you set out as the Church has recently had to be kept locked.

A – Sunday School (1837)
B – Rectory (1864)
C – Church
D – Free School
Footpath
Hedges

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Other Useful Information

If any of the above information is incorrect, please contact Mrs M Smith, xxx Manor Lane, or Mr G Thornton, xx Underhill Road.

Transcriber Notes

This issue was produced on 16 sides of A4 paper.

Personal phone numbers and addresses have been redacted.

Minor typographical corrections and presentational changes have been made without comment.

Digitization by Brendan O'Connor.

Last update: 2016-12-03.