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A Newsletter for the Villages of King's Thorn, Little Birch & – June 2007

Village Hall DIARY DATES JUNE 2007 The Management Committee for LBVH is 2ND JUNE – LB Village Hall Tidy-up organising a working party to undertake a TH much needed tidy up of the outside. If you can 6 JUNE – Golden Valley Community & Pact Forum spare a couple of hours on SATURDAY 2ND 7TH JUNE – Much Birch Council Meeting JUNE from 10.00am onwards your help will 12TH JUNE – Evergreen Club Outing be much appreciated. Please note, this was 12TH JUNE – Whist Drive th scheduled to take place on the 12 May but due 15TH JUNE - Summer Pudding Evening to adverse weather, was cancelled. 15TH JUNE – Summer Garden Party ______21ST JUNE – History Walk in Little Birch Forum 23RD JUNE – Violette Szabo G.C. Memorial Gathering The next Golden Valley Community and 26TH JUNE – History Group AGM Pact Forum is to be held in Peterchurch 28TH JUNE – Little Birch Bingo Community Hall on WEDNESDAY 6TH ADVANCE NOTICES JUNE at 7.30pm. If you care about the ST community you live in, please come along 1 JULY - Treasure Hunt and Cream Teas 7TH JULY - Little Birch Church FÊte and meet your Local Policing Team and DATE UNKNOWN - Mini Antiques Roadshow to value items that you may have dug up out Council Representatives and have your to your garden. say! ______On THURSDAY, 21ST JUNE Adrian The Evergreen Club Whist Drive Harvey is to lead a history walk taking After the super Blue Badge tour of Following another successful drive and you to some parts of Little Birch parish gorgeous villages in the Cotswolds, the through popular demand, a further Whist you may never have known existed! This TH next trip comprises a boat trip from Drive will be held on TUESDAY, 12 is an opportunity to see on the ground Bradford on Avon on the Kennet & Avon JUNE 7.30 pm start at Little Birch what you may have read about in Little Canal which will be on TUESDAY, 12th Village Hall. Excellent prizes and Birch on Aconbury Hill. JUNE. In the morning, those members refreshments, entrance fee £1.50. Please Adrian is the author of the section in this who wish to go into Court Gardens at note the change from a Wednesday to a book The Ownership and Use of Land Holt, will be dropped off and picked up in Tuesday. 1540 – 1840. He will guide the walk time for the 3 O’clock boat from Bradford. Proceeds in aid of hall refurbishment through the parish examining the different The price will be £11 per head (includes funds. ways in which its farms have developed the boat trip and tea) (£13 for non- ______over the centuries: Bromley, New Mills, members) with a further £4.80 each for Summer Garden Party The Ruff, Upper House, Lower House, non-National Trust members at Court TH Church Farm, Well Orchard, Green Farm Gardens. PLEASE REMEMBER TO Join us on FRIDAY, 15 JUNE for an and Castle Nibole. The walk will be about Evening Summer Garden Party with BRING YOUR N.T. CARD. You must 3 miles, mainly along green lanes and Strawberries and Cream and ‘Fizz’ at pre-book this trip by telephoning Beverley unadopted roads, a bit hilly and stout 01981 540406 before Thursday 31 May Chelston Grange, Much Birch at 7.00pm shoes are advised, particularly if the until 9.00pm. to raise funds for Much or Bridget (01981 540932). weather has been wet. Birch Church. Tickets are available at It would help if you could indicate Since this is a ‘one-way’ walk we will whether you wish to go to Court Gardens £6.00 (children £3.00) available from need to organise car transport. If you when booking. Sheila Mortimore – Tel 01981 541022 or would like to come on the walk please from the Churchwardens. Pick up Times are: would you be at Little Birch village hall 8.45 Coach Depot, Brandon ______with or without your car at 6.00 pm (we 8.55 Tump Lane Bungalows will leave at 6.10) We will endeavour to 9.00 The Park, Wormelow Summer Pudding Evening FRIDAY, 15TH JUNE at Little Birch organise just enough cars to transport 9.05 Tump Lane (Middle) everyone down to New Mills Farm where 9.10 Poor Clares Convent Village Hall 7.30pm start - we will leave these cars then, at the end of 9.15 Kings Thorn Bus Shelter Eat as many as you dare the evening, we will ensure everyone is re- 9.20 M.B. Church Bus Stop Entrance fee £5.00 for adults and £3.00 for 9.25 Axe & Cleaver Bus Stop united with their car! We intend to start 9.35 Broome Farm Lay-by children (14yrs & under). Raffle and the walk soon after 6.30 and should arrive 9.45 Merton Hotel, Ross refreshments available. at Little Birch village hall about 9.00 pm. 9.50 Fonteine Court, Ross ______There will be a most welcome ______Walk in Aconbury Wood ploughman’s to greet us with alcoholic the local sawmills, including those at Millennium Green and refreshment (cost £6). Holme Lacy and Pontrilas. After his neighbouring fields is progressing. The ______marriage to Violet and the births of pipes that have been already daughters, Susan and Pauline, Arthur took welded together will be placed in position Violette Szabo G.C. over the Castle Inn in 1953 and was a in the trench that will be The Seventh Memorial Gathering will be popular landlord. David was born here and then back filled. The array of heavy on SATURDAY 23RD JUNE at 2.00pm. then in 1966 the family moved to equipment on site is impressive. ‘Conifers’, the new house on the other If you would like to join us for the ______celebration of her life, please telephone side of the lane which Arthur and Violet Rosemary Rigby MBE (owner and had built for them. Arthur then went to Walk in Aconbury Wood founder of The Violette Szabo G.C. work for George and Tudor, the builders’ In May around 70 people set off from Museum) on 01981 540477 merchants, who later were taken over by Little Birch Village Hall to be led round ______Jewsons. On his retirement, the family the woods by Geraint Richards, who is moved to the Ludlow area and then later head forester for the Duchy of Cornwall, LB & KT History Group AGM to Gobowen, near Oswestry. and Graham Taylor, director of Pryor and This will be held at 7.30pm. on TUESDAY, On Easter Sunday, the family met up at Rickett Silviculture who are contractors TH 26 JUNE in Little Birch Village Hall. Little Birch Church as they had done 10 for the local Duchy woodlands. It was a Everyone is welcome. Now that our book is and 20 years previously but this time to most interesting if slightly damp evening published it does not mean we are going to celebrate Arthur and Violet’s Diamond and we were given a wealth of information cease to exist. Indeed we hope to keep busy , Wedding anniversary. It was a fine sunny organising walks and talks and carrying out about the woods and future plans. day and although Arthur was in a further research. Since so many of you have We entered through the gate behind the bought the book, at least some of you must wheelchair he enjoyed the service and the chapel where we were given a brief have had your memories jogged about family then moved to the Axe and Cleaver background of the Duchy’s acquisition of information, documents or photographs which for a celebratory lunch. Arthur will be the woods and its management over the you have or know about and which we failed to sadly missed by a wide circle of friends previous 5 years. The plantation of sweet include in the book, to say nothing of errors and we send our sincere condolences to chestnut and fir was then pointed out. which you may have discovered. We are Violet, Susan, Pauline and David and their Plans are now to remove the firs (which seriously considering putting together some families and to sister in law by marriage, acted as nurse trees to encourage long sort of supplement in which these could be Grace Grundy, who lived for many years included so please get in touch or come to the straight trunks on the chestnuts) and most AGM. If you would like to join the group at in Little Birch but who now lives in of the chestnuts will be coppiced (cut this stage you would be most welcome so, Ludlow. down to the base) as such a large number again, come to the AGM. We’ll see you Congratulations are extended to EDITH have been damaged by squirrels. The there!! DAVIES in Upper Wrigglebrook Barn, healthy trees will be left as standards. th ______who recently celebrated her 90 birthday. Squirrels, which have a particular No election was needed this time for fondness for chestnuts, have stripped the Bingo members of Little Birch Parish Council bark in many places and there are various Little Birch Village Hall – THURSDAY, but good wishes are sent to those elected control methods being used to reduce their TH 28 JUNE - eyes down at 8.00pm. to Much Birch Parish Council and to number. Warfarin has been used but now Proceeds in aid of hall refurbishment Richard Smith, who was elected to trapping and shooting are the favoured fund. represent the Pontrilas Ward, including methods. Apparently these are having an ______our , on Council. impact. The other main threat to the The next few weeks will be anxious for LITTLE BIRCH CHURCH FÊTE forester are the deer which have been local students taking important getting out of control as they have no examinations and we wish them all well. SATURDAY, 7TH JULY, 2PM natural predators. There is deer stalking A very generous donation of an ‘as new’ ongoing to reduce their numbers. The caravan awning has been made and will be At main problem as well as some bark sold for church and village hall funds. The stripping is that they graze on all the new new cost was over £500 and it is now THE OLD RECTORY, LITTLE BIRCH shoots from coppiced stumps and being offered to the best bidder over £100. seedlings. A real bargain!! It is a ‘Universal’ awning We then proceeded to the area where the Grand draw and will fit any caravan with a length of 1st prize – helicopter ride for 4 woodland crafts project is based and were 14.5 to 15.5 feet. The offer includes help Teas told by Maurice that he is teaching some to show how it is erected. Offers to John Games and competitions of the old woodland skills to a variety of Bryant on 01981 540316 please. people including those with learning Stalls – cakes, produce, ______bric à brac, plants, books difficulties, those with drug or behavioural Bouncy castle problems and ex-offenders. The hope is Car boot - £5 a table that some may rebuild their lives with The Gas Pipeline Update their newly acquired skills. Hazels have ______The Gas Pipeline has been put under been coppiced and the wood used for a Tump Lane by an amazing machine that variety of purposes as is the oak from a Local News drills a suitable hole and the pipe is traditionally felled tree (i.e. without a Older residents in Little Birch will be sad pushed through it and then externally chain saw!) Various items are being made to have read of the death of ARTHUR welded to the adjacent pipes. Tump Lane including stools, hurdles, chair-legs and WORSFOLD at the age of 86. Arthur was was not closed for this operation and the lamps turned on a lathe. There are also a brought up in Much Birch and attended road surface has not been disturbed. large number of pea/bean sticks which the local school. He worked in several of Digging the trench for the pipes across the local people can ask for. (There is usually someone there on Tuesdays and more common in France so may happen ______sometimes at weekends.) At present there more often here in the future. Found are no products for sale but there may well After walking through the camp we turned A door key, on a key ring, has been found be in the future. The Duchy has recently left in the direction of Warren Farm and by a dog walker in Aconbury Wood. acquired charcoal burning equipment came to another area which had been Please contact Andy on 01981 540382 if it which will be used in the wood and plans clear-felled 3 years ago. The replanting is could belong to you. are to sell the charcoal locally – much now growing well, containing much the ______more environmentally friendly than using same mixture as before. It was possible to imported charcoal for barbecues! The begin to see how the area would look in Much Birch 100 Club Draw Duchy also hopes to sell firewood the future. The Douglas firs above this The May draw took place on Tuesday, including woodchips. It was pointed out area would remain as they would continue 15th May 2007 at Much Birch Community that there had been a very successful acorn to grow and produce a more useful wood. Hall at 7.30pm mast last year and the ground under some On the opposite side of the track is an area The winners were: oak trees was carpeted now with oak of sweet chestnut coppice which was last 1. No. 101- Mrs. Shirley Gemmell, seedlings, the greatest number seen for at cut well over 15 years ago and was Peterstow least 10 years. This will give the overdue for re-coppicing. A number of 2. No. 75 - Mrs. Jean Porter, Ross-on- opportunity for some natural regeneration the trees may well have to be replaced as Wye and may point to some older, less healthy they have not received sufficient attention. The next draw will take place on trees which could be identified for the This area will remain as coppice on a 15 Wednesday, 13th June 2007 at 7.00pm in ongoing selective felling programme. year cycle. The wood is very useful for Much Birch Community Hall. Where possible the Duchy intends to rely fence posts as it is hard and resistant to rot John Jones, Chairman/Promoter on natural regeneration. The only places so does not need treating with chemicals. ______where planting has taken place is where It is possible that these may become Much Birch Parish Council clear-felling has been carried out. Clear- available for sale in the future. Parish Council Elections felling was of the worthless conifer We returned to the Village Hall at about 8 Following the election on 3rd May, the Western Hemlock. o’clock where we enjoyed a very welcome Parish Council would like to thank We then walked up to one of these areas ploughman’s supper. We are most outgoing Parish Councillor, Colin just below the camp ramparts, north of the grateful to Geraint Richards and Graham Anderson, for his work over the years, and triangulation point. This was felled last Taylor for an excellent evening and to the his continuing role as Footpaths Officer year and had been replanted with a Village Hall committee for the supper for the parish. New Councillors, mixture of mostly native trees including afterwards. Vivienne Short and Menna Swift, are oak, ash, cherry and yew. There is also ______welcomed, and join Dave Davies, Peter some fir and even a little resistant elm. Groom, John Jones and Glen Sims, as the The oaks, in particular had been grown in LBVH Committee six Parish Councillors to represent Much Duchy nurseries from acorns collected in To clarify any confusion caused, Little Birch Birch over the next four years. Village Hall committee is made up of the Officers Aconbury to ensure the genetic continuity. following members The extensive view over and John Bryant - Chairman Mr Dave Davies has been re-elected as beyond which has opened up as a result of Amanda Williams - Secretary Chairman of the Parish Council, with John the felling has been much appreciated by Robyn Hodges - Treasurer Jones as Vice Chairman. local walkers and we were assured that Jackie Morley - Hall booking clerk this view, and the one over to the Black Committee members - Paul Bishop, Alison Mountains at the other end of the camp, Clarke, Adrian Hodges, Mike Morley & Tonia Planning would be preserved as far as possible by Peters Applications supported by Parish Council keeping an open swathe. We then entered ______under planning policy: the camp. The density of trees is being Cleaner St Gabriels Cottage - Single storey maintained at a much lower level here as a Cleaner needed for MUCH BIRCH extension to rear and detached double result of an agreement with archaeologists COMMUNITY HALL. The position is paid garage. and in order to keep the sheet of bluebells and the hours would be approximately 4 per Birch House - Replacement of two carpeting the area. These are much week. If you are interested and would like windows on ground floor. appreciated by the local people and were more information about the post, please call Sandridge, Barrack Hill - New dwelling looking their best on this evening. Bryony Connolly on 01981 541274. in garden to Sandridge. Bracken growth does tend to take over ______Planning permissions granted by when they die down but this is beneficial Herefordshire Council: to an extent in ensuring the bulbs do not M.B. Parish Council Election Much Birch VC Primary School I would like to thank those residents who get overheated in the summer. The Removal of existing boiler room and tank voted for me in the recent Elections - this bracken is controlled somewhat by annual enclosure and provision of new single rolling. This has been carried out by a was much appreciated. This is my first storey extension and new fenestration to involvement in Parish Councils, but I will horse-towed roller, an activity which classroom and library. Provision of new take the necessary steps to ensure that I Prince Charles came to see on one oil store and enclosure. occasion. It was mentioned that over 80% carry out the duties to the best of my Minster Farm - Revised details to ability. Should anyone have any particular of the bluebells in the world are in the UK, previous approved detached house issues, views, suggestions, please let me a situation which might be threatened by application global warming. On the other hand, oaks know. I will do my best to address them. Tump Lane Again, many thanks. are apparently at the northernmost extent The Annual Parish Meeting discussed road Menna Swift of their range which is why they bear an safety issues for Tump Lane, including:- acorn mast so infrequently. This is much continuation of the footpath, speed limit and weight restriction. These issues will · You should also fit grills or mesh to the forgiven for asking: “I’m sorry but who be discussed with our new Herefordshire windows and invest in an alarm. are BDI?” Councillor, Richard Smith. · Chain together expensive items such as Non-Emergency phone Meetings bicycles – this makes them much more 08457 444 888 The Parish Council meets on the first difficult to move. Emergency phone 999 Thursday of each month (excluding · Keep items such as ladders or tools that Response Officers could be used to break into the home under August and January) at 8.00 pm in the PC Fiona Farrington Community Centre. Local residents are lock and key and out of sight where possible. Mob: 07817 019 374 very welcome to attend and air their views PC Roger Bradley in the Open Discussion session. Next Make your plants the first line of Mob: 07811 129860 meeting – THURSDAY 7TH JUNE. defence! Local PC Andrew Bundy Parish Clerk As well as increasing security for your shed or Mob: 07855 385 844. If you have any queries on Parish Council garage itself, the design and layout of your matters, please tel/fax your Clerk, Mrs garden can also help to lessen the likelihood of Hereford Rural South Answer phone Lynda Wilcox on 01432 276447 or write becoming the victim of a burglary. 01432 346756 to 5 Croome Close, Hereford, HR1 1UY. The first thing to look at is the boundaries Local Reps are : ______of your property as these are your first East lines of defence against burglars. JOHN BULBECK - 540178 Neighbourhood Watch You should ensure that all gates, fences Central CENTRAL POLICE CONTROL and walls are strong and kept in good BOB PETERS - 540670 08457 444 888 repair to deter intruders from getting to the West This time of year sees a rise in garden- back and sides of your property. High BETTY PHILPOTT - 540614 related crime – but you can help keep fences are more difficult to climb, so ______crime low by improving security measures consider attaching a trellis to your fence to Fast Disappearing Verges at home. add more height to it. I came to live at “Cartref House” Tump If you have a side gate ensure that it is Lane, Wormelow 43 years ago, when it positioned as close to the front of the This time of year traditionally sees an was a lovely quiet green leafy lane. Three house as possible. Would-be intruders dogs came with me, the road gate was increase in the number sheds and garages will be put off climbing over it, as they targeted by burglars but there are some always open, they came and went as they will be in full view of your neighbours. pleased, and children played safely in the simple steps that everyone can take to put You should also ensure that the gate is off green-fingered thieves. lane! What a difference now! I was kept locked at all times. Fitting motion once told by a resident of many years in Around 1,000 shed burglaries take place sensitive lights over the gate and in other every year across West Mercia, so it is the area, that on a certain day each year a key areas in your garden is another good horsedrawn loaded wagon had to pass important that people take the time to way of keeping intruders at bay. ensure their valuables are stored securely. down the lane, but before doing so, they Another way of increasing security in your had to cut back the lower branches in While many people take steps to protect garden is by doing some defensive their homes and the property inside them, order for it to pass through. planting. This means using certain prickly The first disturbance of the verges they often leave valuable equipment such plants, bushes and shrubs and planting as power tools, mowers, garden tools and occurred when a large BT lorry arrived them around vulnerable areas such as and parked on the side of the lane. bikes in unsecured sheds or in sheds that windows, fences, boundary walls and are not strong or secure enough to protect Immediately every big vehicle coming up drainpipes to deter burglars. or down had to mount the verge on the the items from thieves. If you’re not sure what sort of plants to Garden crime is an unfortunate reality so other side, one only has to drive up or use then ask for some advice at your local down to see the terrible result that has had. we are advising people to look at how garden centre. However, defensive secure their garden or shed is and if This happened a year or two ago. The planting should be used to complement complete devastation is now being necessary make some adjustments to help and not replace other security measures so ‘weed out’ garden thieves. undertaken by the Murphy Contractors, do not buy prickly plants in place of lights, working for the National Grid Gas It’s important to remember that most locks and alarms. garden sheds are not designed for the safe Pipeline. I would like to ask who is going West Mercia Constabulary has produced to encourage/insist that our precious storage of expensive items such as power an information leaflet with advice on how tools, mowers, bikes and garden tools. If verges in Tump Lane are reinstated? It people can better protect their gardens and was made as a tiny green lane, not a at all possible they should be stored sheds. somewhere more secure but if this proves Motorway! It will be available from garden centres Would it be possible for it to become a impossible to do, there are some simple and police stations across the county steps you can take which will still ensure one way lane? Could we also have shortly and can also be downloaded from curbstones in the lower half as there are in your valuables are much better protected. the Force website at Top tips for garden shed security include many other parts? Might we have white www.westmercia.police.uk. lines and notices asking motorists not to · Keep the shed in good condition. And finally on a lighter note… · Keep it locked. drive over or park on the verges. I have Officers are increasingly finding very much enjoyed my 43 years living in · Fit a closed shackle padlock to the door and themselves bombarded with acronyms and ensure that the fittings are bolted through Tump Lane and am very proud of when an Inspector based at the IPLDP Woirmelow and district and will do all I the door and that any screws are concealed (Initial Police Learning Development so that potential thieves cannot easily can to protect this little lane. I am sure remove the padlock and it’s fixtures. Project) team at Greater Manchester many others feel as I do and I must hold Police was told a department was being on to the belief that someone somewhere looked at with a beady eye, he could be will come forward and fight for its future. Can you help? Please do not just read, to [email protected], or by post to but come forward and help if you can. Prospect Cottage, Gorsley, Ross on Wye, Yours in very special anticipation Herefordshire HR9 7SH. Rosemary Rigby MBE ______Cost of Printing the N/L Hazards on Roads No new households have opted for the Cyclists Touring Club (CTC) Web Site electronic version this month, which is a www.fillthathole.org.uk This site is shame. Do please consider it – it really does save money and the environment. Your email mainly aimed at cyclists but also serves a privacy is guaranteed. Please always purpose for reporting roads which require acknowledge receipt. We are now saving 319 attention by the Council to benefit all road sheets of paper each month but we would really users. appreciate more offers to accept it The CTC site is commended to you, electronically. especially if you use Tump Lane for ______cycling, walking, even by car, even other roads needing attention. It gives scope to Items/Copy report your observations on the condition Please may I have items for the JULY of roads e.g. the upper parts of Tump Lane issue via post to where the surface is much below par. The Mrs. S.E. Mathews, Folly Cottage, Little cause generally by contractors doing work Birch, HR2 8BD; or left in the post box at and not bringing the lane back to a 'Bramleys' or by email attachment in Word satisfactory state plus neglect especially format to: when compared to the lower part of Tump [email protected] by lane, plus the excessive and frequent use ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ by heavy goods vehicles taking a short TH cut. 18 JUNE Viewing the above site will show how ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ easy it is to self help and report your Please Note observations via the CTC to the There will be no Newsletter in Herefordshire Council and do your bit for the public good. August, so make sure that any Additional 'Snippet'. It has been reported August Dates are included in MOBILE LIBRARY in the English press that "last year your July Copy. 2nd Friday of each month councils spent £33 million repairing potholes and £60 million in compensation Much Birch - Lees Field, Far for the damage they caused". End, Churchfield, Court Farm, CC addressees are requested to promote ADVERTS Belle View – the gist accordingly as fits their new Please check. They 9.25am. - 10.45am. opportunities. ______have been updated. Kings Thorn - Hampden, Your Ward Councillor Stoneleigh – Richard Smith was elected to 10.50am. - 11.25am. rd Herefordshire Council on 3 May 2007 to represent Pontrilas Ward. Richard and Little Birch - Pendant Pitch his wife Henrietta have lived in Gorsley, Post Box, Crows Nest, Old near Ross on Wye, for over 12 years. He Cottage - has chaired Linton Parish Council, was 11.30am. - 12.05pm. treasurer for Gorsley village hall for 10 years and remains a founder member of Kings Thorn - Chances the village Neighbourhood Watch group. Cottage, Wrigglebrook After 37 years’ service in the RAF and a Cottage, Jabiru – further 3 years as a senior civil servant, Richard has wide management experience 12.10pm. - 1.05pm. both in Britain and abroad. As chairman Much Birch - Old Shop, Old of the parish council he oversaw the production of a comprehensive Parish School House, Ash Farm, Plan, giving him a deep insight into three Council Houses and Cedar villages’ problems and priorities. And a Eaves - keen interest in road safety and traffic 1.55pm. - 3.10pm. management, the environment, and the Much Dewchurch - Callow services and facilities which are essential to village life. View, The Pines - 3.15pm. - You can contact Richard by phone to 3.45pm. 01989 720669 or 07803 273576, by email The Castle Inn LITTLE BIRCH

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