Issue No. 235

Hill & Valley THE PARISH MAGAZINE OF HURSTBOURNE PRIORS, LONGPARISH, ST MARY BOURNE & WOODCOTT 50p February 2020

Hill & Valley Parish Magazine for Hurstbourne Priors, Longparish and St Mary Bourne & Woodcott February 2020

Dear Friends,

As we journey into 2020, I hope your now ‘not so New Year’ has begun as well as you hoped. Whether you have maintained any New Year resolutions or begun some new venture, I hope 2020 is a year where challenges and triumphs may be faced with courage and confidence. As you may be aware by now, Jane and I shall be moving to Yorkshire to begin a new ministry in March: more about that in next month’s edition.

Towards the end of 2019, Dodie received some exciting news from Bishop Tim, the Bishop of Winchester which said the following;

“It gives me great pleasure to be able to write to invite you to become an Honorary Canon of the Cathedral. I write with the support of the Dean having heard the warmest commendation of your ministry amongst us from colleagues in the senior staff. This is not only an expression of my appreciation for your service in this diocese and the wider church, but also in recognition of the wisdom and passion for mission which you will continue as a member of the College of canons. “

Dodie will be made a canon of Winchester Cathedral at 3.30pm on Sunday 23rd February when we shall set aside any evening service here so that we can support Dodie at the Cathedral for this special occasion in Dodie's life and the life of the Benefice. From that date she will be known as 'The Reverend Canon Dodie Marsden'.

We wish Dodie our warmest congratulations on this much deserved honour in recognition of her dedication to the life of the benefice and the wider diocese.

This comes with every blessing to you all. Craig

Uganda - Autumn 2020 - An invitation to those across our Deanery

We are planning on taking a team of adults to Mityana at the end of September, early October. There will be opportunities to visit link parishes, churches and schools and to see the work that is being done and where support is having a positive impact. If you are interested and want to find out more, can you please email us: [email protected] or [email protected] There will be an open meeting on Wednesday 12th February at 7.30pm to discuss costs, timings, activities etc. in the St Mary Bourne Village Centre Clubroom.

Vicar’s Diary Dates and Notices

Tuesday 25th February Bible Study 11.00am The Vicarage, St. Mary Bourne

Thursdays Home Group 3.30pm 4 Applegate, St. Mary Bourne

FROM THE VICAR: REVD CRAIG MARSHALL, THE VICARAGE, ST MARY BOURNE, ANDOVER, HAMPSHIRE SP11 6AY  01264 738308 St Andrew, Hurstbourne Priors; St Nicholas, Longparish; St Peter, St Mary Bourne; St James, Woodcott. Services in the Parish Churches

For enquiries about Baptisms, Weddings, February 2020 Funerals in any of the parish churches,

nd please contact: 2 February - Candlemas The Revd Craig Marshall  01264 738308 Hurstbourne Priors 11.00am Family Communion The Vicarage, St Mary Bourne, Andover Longparish 9.30am Family Communion (BCP) Hampshire SP11 6AY St. Mary Bourne 8.00am Holy Communion email: [email protected] 11.00am Family Communion or anyone of the Clergy: 6.00pm Evensong

Woodcott No service The Revd Canon Dodie Marsden  01264 738211 email: [email protected] ,

th rd The Revd Richard Sutcliffe  01264 738288 9 February - 3 before Lent email: [email protected]

● For details of Roman Catholic Services in Hurstbourne Priors 9.30am Family Worship Whitchurch or Andover  01264 352829 Longparish 11.00am Family Worship ● Methodist Minister for our parishes: The St. Mary Bourne 11.00am Family Communion Revd Rachel Borgars, 11 Lapwing Rise, 6.00pm Evensong Whitchurch, RG28 7SU  01256 895878 Woodcott 3.30pm Confirmation Service email: [email protected]

with +David From the Church Registers

16th February - 2nd before Lent Baptisms "Shine as a light in the world to the glory of Hurstbourne Priors 4.00pm Songs of Praise God the Father."

Longparish 9.30am Family Communion Sunday 13th October – St James’ Woodcott St. Mary Bourne 11.00am Family Worship Baptism of Ottilie Hicks, daughter of Quentin 6.00pm Holy Communion (BCP) and Chessie

Woodcott No Service th Sunday 12 January – Hurstbourne Priors Baptism of Alfred Brunwin in St. Andrew’s rd 23 February - Next before Lent Weddings “Marriage is a gift of God in creation …”

Hurstbourne Priors 8.00am Holy Communion th Longparish 9.30am Family Communion Friday 20 December 2019 – St. Mary Bourne Marriage of Paul Gaffney and Hilary Steeden St. Mary Bourne 11.00am Family Communion in St. Peter’s 3.30pm The Cathedral (Dodie made Funerals Honorary Canon) "Into God's loving care we commit you ..."

Woodcott 9.30am Mattins rd Tuesday 3 December – St. Mary Bourne Funeral of Ruth Wells

26th February - ASH WEDNESDAY Friday 6th December – Longparish Funeral of Margaret Turner in St. Nicholas’

St. Mary Bourne 7.00pm Holy Communion and Monday 9th December – St. Mary Bourne the Imposition of Ashes Funeral of Bertie Hall

th Friday 20 December – St. Mary Bourne Funeral of Daphne Brewster in St. Peter’s Lent 2020 Monday 13th January – Longparish We will have a Lent Course of four evening sessions across the Benefice, Funeral of June Hoare at Charlton Park that will begin on Wednesday 11th March and the three subsequent Crematorium Wednesdays. th The theme is: Lent, Holy Week and Easter and we will look through Friday 17 January – St. Mary Bourne (Stoke) four lenses: art, music, poetry and experience. Funeral of Gillian Thatcher at Charlton Park Crematorium It will be a Benefice lent course and we will visit each of our parishes.

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Hill & Valley Parish Magazine for Hurstbourne Priors, Longparish and St Mary Bourne & Woodcott February 2020

WEATHER – NOVEMBER AND HURSTBOURNE PRIORS PCC DECEMBER 2019 The Annual Vestry Meeting of St Andrew’s Church November December will be held in the Village Hall on Monday 24th February at 7.30pm. This is a meeting of all Total rainfall for 131mm (5.15in) 183mm (7.20in) parishioners to elect the churchwardens for the month coming year. It rained on 19 days 19 days The Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) will Rainfall same 130mm (5.12in) 145mm (5.71in) take place immediately after the Vestry Meeting. month last year Anyone who is on the Electoral Roll of St Andrew’s, Hurstbourne Priors can attend and vote at the Total for 2019 966mm 1,149mm APCM. (38.03in) (45.23in) Total for 2018 878mm 1,023mm (34.56in) (40.27in) HURSTBOURNE PRIORS SAFARI SUPPER Max temp 16C (60F) on 12C (54F) on 1st Nov 18th Dec Saturday evening th Min temp -2C (28F) on -3C (26F) on 7 March 2020 22nd Nov 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Dec We hope many villagers from all over Hurstbourne Our 25 year average rainfall is 33.75in, so we were Priors will join in the tenth annual Safari Supper. We 11.48in above our average in 2019. And 5in up on especially welcome anyone who has not been before 2018 … no wonder it’s wet! or who is new to the village. John Smail The supper has four courses: drinks and nibbles, starter, main course and pudding. Simple cooking is all that is needed.

Each couple will host one course of their choice and go to other houses for the other courses where they will meet different people on each occasion. At the WORD OF THE MONTH end of the evening we will all meet up for coffee at the Village Hall. FUGACIOUS – (from the Latin verb fugere which means to flee) ...... fleeting, fleeing, transitory (as Those who do not have a husband/wife/partner can are our beautiful Bourne Valley morning mists and join with someone else to form 'a couple' for the our ever changing skyscapes). evening. It couples up nicely with APRICITY – (from the Latin apricari: to bask in the sun)…… The warmth If you would like to take part (or would like further of winter sun – which we are being gifted with as I information) please contact Ann Orr by Monday, write this. 17th February at the latest. Barbara Carrodus Ann Orr 01256 895983 LADIES COFFEE MORNINGS [email protected] The February Coffee Morning will be hosted by Lois Jones (01256 892548) at 28 Hurstbourne Priors on Tuesday, 18th February 2020 from 10.15 onwards.

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Hill & Valley Parish Magazine for Hurstbourne Priors, Longparish and St Mary Bourne & Woodcott February 2020 ANDOVER FOODBANK museum. If you would like to attend this course, please telephone 01962 774707 as soon as possible, Thank you for all your generous donations. They or contact [email protected] Twelve to are, as always, greatly appreciated. This month week fifteen people will make the class viable. we are in need of the following food and non-food Hendrika Foster items: • Potatoes – tinned or instant mash • Cereal bowls • Bath towels – these don’t need to be new but must be clean!

Foodbank Coffee Mornings As many of you know,we hold a coffee morning at Lovely Poppy from last month has been lucky the Foodbank every month. These get togethers are a enough to find a new home and is settling in well. great opportunity to socialise, visit the Foodbank This beautiful, and meet some of the staff and find out what goes on friendly and very an how we operate. The next few coffee mornings, energetic young which start at 10.30am at the Parish Hall, Alexandra lady is Daisy who Road, Andover are on 7th February, 13th March, 3rd was handed into April and 1st May (which will also include our our care as a stray. annual Plant Sale). All are welcome! Unfortunately we have been unable Save the date: This year’s Andover Lake Run is on to trace her owner Sunday 13th September 2020. More information will so she is now ready to find a new home. We are be available shortly. confident she would make an ideal family pet, Andover Foodbank please get in touch if you think you can offer Daisy Tel: 01264 362111 a home. The vets estimate her to be about 2 years www.andover.foodbank.org.uk old. Helpful tip - If the weather becomes particularly cold, keep your cat indoors. While they might seem HISTORY OF ART COURSE - ROME bored or restless, pet cats aren’t used to extreme temperatures and can even develop frostbite or Hendrika Foster, MA is offering a 5 week History of hypothermia. Keep them entertained and exercised th nd Art course on Rome from 5 October to 2 with enrichment toys and feeders. November at St Mary Bourne Village Centre. It will consist of five Monday afternoons from 1.30 – 4pm. For all homing, fund raising and volunteer enquiries; Fee £85, tea and biscuits included. Telephone: 0345 260 1501 or Email: s [email protected] In Classical Rome, its power politics and philosophy To view all cats currently up for adoption visit were expressed through its Architecture and Art. www. andover.cats.org.uk Countless European leaders since the 1st Century have emulated the style and created their own KEEPING IN TOUCH version of the grandeur that was Ancient Rome.

The course consists of a resume of the work of the If you would like be included on the village email most prominent artists who left a legacy in Rome up list to be kept informed of village events, please to the 17th Century. By the end of the course you contact Ann Orr ([email protected]) should be able to plan an itinerary for a visit to the Events we would notify you about include Safari city. We shall discuss museums, palazzi and Supper, May Fair, Church events or those happening churches that can be visited to see the best of the art on the Recreation Ground or Village Hall. Please on display. rest assured your information is kept securely and will not be given to anyone else without your After working for the University of Bristol, consent. Hendrika currently lectures freelance in and around Winchester and also in London at the V&A 2 Hurstbourne Priors

Hill & Valley Parish Magazine for Hurstbourne Priors, Longparish and St Mary Bourne & Woodcott February 2020 SONGS OF PRAISE SERVICE PARISH COUNCIL MEETINGS - 2020 th Sunday 16 February 2020 Your Parish Council meets every other month on the St Andrew’s Church at 4pm final Wednesday at 7.30pm in the Village Hall. All Parishioners are very welcome to attend, and they Please come and join us for another new do not need to give any notice that they wish to style, informal service where you can come. However, if there is a particular item which enjoy singing favourite old hymns and you would like to discuss and which you feel it some new songs followed by tea and would be beneficial for the Councillors to look into cake. prior to the meeting, please contact either: If you play an instrument, come and join the Parish Clerk, Richard Waterman, on our growing band of musicians! All very [email protected] welcome.

Any enquiries to Ann Orr ([email protected]) or or the Chairman, Clare Read, on [email protected] Fenella Williams ([email protected]) or 07711 917375.

Dates for 2020 ST ANDREW’S CHURCHYARD Wednesday 25th March Wednesday 27th May Forthcoming work on trees in and around the Wednesday 29th July churchyard Wednesday 30th September Wednesday 25th November Following concern about some elderly trees that were thought to be leaning dangerously in the Minutes from previous meeting are available to churchyard, and falling dead branches in the avenue, view on the Parish Website. the PCC commissioned a report from an Richard Waterman, arboriculturalist regarding the safety of all of the Clerk trees and plans for their management. This has produced some helpful recommendations for ANDOVER FILM CLUB maintenance work. These mainly involve removal of some lower branches of sycamores overhanging the new churchyard and “raising the crown” of certain of the lime trees in the avenue. It also recommends the felling of the two old cypress trees in the churchyard which have reached the end of their useful lives and are endangering walls and tombstones should they fall. There will also be some light trimming of the veteran yew tree to improve its shape and reduce the risk of branches splitting off.

As all the trees are in a conservation area, permission has been sought from Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council who have now given their February’s film is Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed approval for this work to be undertaken. An You at the Odeon Cinema, Andover on Monday, 10th application has also been made to the Diocesan February at 8pm. Hoping that self-employment Advisory Council whose approval is expected soon. through the gig economy can solve their financial The expense of this work has been made possible by woes, a hard-up UK delivery driver and his wife end a most generous grant from the Vitacress Charitable up trapped in the viscious circle of this modern-day Trust and the support of neighbouring landowners. It form of labour exploitation. is hoped that the work will be undertaken during February or early March. Pre-booking on line is recommended at Martin Briant-Evans www.andoverfilmclub.org Churchwarden

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Hill & Valley Parish Magazine for Hurstbourne Priors, Longparish and St Mary Bourne & Woodcott February 2020 MAY FAIR 2020 ACCESS TO WASTE RECYCLING CENTRES Hampshire residents are being asked to register their vehicles for continued automatic free access to Hampshire Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs). A new resident permit system will begin operating later this year. It will be controlled by Automatic HURSTBOURNE PRIORS MAY Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) and will ensure FAIR continued free access for Hampshire residents to any rd of Hampshire’s 24 HWRCs to disposse of household Sunday 3 May 2020 waste, while access for non-Hampshire residents will be for a fee of £5 per visit. Charges for non- Preparations are gathering pace for this household waste, including soil and rubble, year’s May Fair, the annual fundraiser for plasterboard and asbestos remain. our Village amenities. The May Fair Team Hampshire residents can register up to three vehicles would be most grateful for offers of help via the Hampshire County Council website. The both before and on the day and for system will quickly check the registration of the cars contributions for the following stalls. coming into the site against the number plates that have been registered so that Hampshire residents can freely enter the sites as many times as they wish, Tombola Bric a Brac Produce without any further checks. Nearly New Books Kids Area Bottle Stall Deli To register your vehicle please go to: www.hants.gov.uk/vehicle-registration-hwrc Teas in the Village Hall The May Fair Team invites Collection can be arranged for large items nearer the May Fair you to a Big Breakfast and Pancake For all offers of help or items please contact Race

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is now half way into its 16th year. It but it’s important to get the right light, in the right place and continues to provide a monthly low cost, for it to be used at the right time. As well as affecting our light lunch and social occasion for everyone in the community. ability to see dark skies, light pollution can have many negative Almost ninety people attended our festive Christmas Lunch in impacts: December. With sherry on arrival, all enjoyed a traditional roast - Health and Wellbeing - lights that shine directly into turkey meal followed by mince pies and tea or coffee. There was windows or orange glows in the sky can disrupt our body a superb raffle and once again children from St Mary Bourne clocks making us tired or stressed. Primary School kindly came to sing Christmas songs and carols. - Safety - Glare and bright light spilling onto the road can Our thanks go to everyone who supports us each year. In distract or blind motorists. particular: the Vitacress company, the Village School, the Village - Crime - A security light may not actually deter crime. Bright Shop, Bourne Valley PYO, Ken White Distribution, everyone who lights can create contrasting dark spots that people can generously donated raffle prizes, and of course all who come hide within, unseen from the outside. along each month to enjoy our lunch. A special thanks also to - Wildlife - artificial light can be bad for wildlife - growth, the hard working volunteers of the Lunch Team! Our next lunch development, reproduction, eating and movement all will be on Wednesday 19th February, 12.30pm at St Mary depend on the balance between day and night. Bourne Village Centre as usual. If a lift is needed please phone - Going Green - if the power of lights is too much, lighting Chris Smith on  01264 738 110 by noon on the Tuesday is badly directed or is on when not needed energy can be before. wasted adding to the impact of climate change. - Cost - Wasted power through badly designed, installed or

used lighting is an unnecessary cost. Coffee at The George Inn All ages are welcome, from all the villages, to a What could you do to avoid light pollution? Here’s some social coffee morning on Tuesday 11th February suggestions: at 10.30am in The George Inn, St Mary - Don’t fit unnecessary or excessively bright lights. Bourne. £2.50 for coffee and biscuits - if you need a lift, - Switch off the lights when they’re not needed. - Think about using a well-aimed movement detector and a contact Win Coventry  01264 738 199. timer. - Aim your floodlights downwards to only cover the area that will meet as usual on the Women's Fellowship needs lighting. first Thursday of the month February 6th at The Cottage at - Be careful not to light up other people's properties or their 2.30pm. Anyone who would like to join us for a cup of tea and windows. a piece of cake will be very welcome. For further information contact Eve Lind-Smith on  01264 738 681 If you want to find out more have a look at Basingstoke and Deane’s leaflet at https://www.basingstoke.gov.uk/content/doclib/551.pdf

See the difference – join in with Stargazing at Earth Hour – 28th March Started in Sydney in 2007 this world-wide event highlights the need to care for our environment and using people power! Each event sees local lights being switched off from 20:30 to 21:30 The Community Library - Club Room highlighting the issue of light pollution which as you can imagine is something close to our hearts! Go Stargazing will be organising Saturday mornings between 10.30 and 12.30 a series of events across the UK - look out for and support your

local event. RAS Scramblers - Thursday 13th February at 2.15pm. Come along with your toddler and enjoy half an hour of fun and friendship, a story and then a drink and St Mary Bourne & District biscuit. Flower Show and Fête

AGM followed by drinks Priors Players Amateur Dramatics in the Bourne Friday 6th March, 7.30pm Valley - We are currently considering how best to move Village Centre forward and are looking for an enthusiastic person or persons who would like to take on the extremely All members of the Horticultural Society, those who rewarding responsibilities of running Priors Players. contributed to the event last year and anyone interested If you think you might be interested please contact in being involved or simply attending are warmly invited. Sophy on 01264 738 705 or Hilary on 01264 738 323 as soon as possible and before 25th March. Annual membership of the Horticultural Society can be bought at the AGM for £2 or in advance from Sheila Marsh - [email protected] , Look up at the starry skies Membership Secretary Dark skies add to the beauty, tranquility and sense of or from the village shop. Members are entitled to vote at remoteness of a place. Looking up at a starry sky or across a the AGM and to a free programme. moonlight landscape is a memorable and magical experience. And yet, increasingly artificial light is reducing our ability to see SAVE THE DATE dark skies – nationally over 90 per cent of the population are this year’s show will be held on denied sight of starry skies. Our valley darkness at night is an Saturday 25th July integral part of our valley. Can we ensure that it remains a place where night skies can thrill the eye, unaffected by light pollution? Artificial light provides valuable benefits to all of us 1 CLACY’S GARAGE DEREK’S GARDEN London Street, Whitchurch MACHINERY 01256 892099 or 892168 SERVICES Email [email protected] Tel: 01264 362329 Service and Repairs to All Cars & Light Commercials Mobile: 07770 403109 www.dereks-gardenmachinary.co.uk Both Diesel and Petrol Welding and Bodywork Steam Cleaning and Valeting Based at: Unit 6a, Davenport, Air Conditioning Specialists Ox Drove, Andover. SP11 6ND BREAKDOWN & ACCIDENT SERVICE & REPAIRS RECOVERY GARDEN MACHINERY CAR HIRE AND LOAN CHAINSAWS, GENERATORS Cars & Light Commercials & Motorbikes - SHEARS SHARPENED Diesels, Petrol & Catalysts Tested

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‘The Film’ at St Mary Bourne Village Centre

A brand new decade… nothing better to hit the restart button than the dawning of a new 10 years! I’m sure you have all stuck to your New Year Resolutions through January and are embracing February with vigour and enthusiasm! At the shop, we’re ready for a great year with lots of new products and healthy lines to keep you all going (as well as some treats too!). For any of you keeping to a plant based diet, we stock Quorn Mince and Sausages and have fantastic fresh veg coming into the shop every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. We also have Gluten Free biscuits and bread, quinoa, cous cous, beautiful ready-made salads for a tasty lunch, fresh soups… and if all bets are off, wonderful homemade cakes too! February also brings our AGM, this year held jointly with the Village Centre Committee. We’d love to see you and let you know how the shop is doing and our plans for the future. Do join us if you can. Wednesday, Downton Abbey (PG, 2 hrs 3 min) 26th February at the Village Centre Club Room at 7pm. Set in 1927, about a year and a half after the events of Stay and have a glass of wine with us too. the final episode of the popular TV series, Downton Abbey’s Happy February! Lara and the Team x big-screen outing concerns a visit to the Crawleys by the King and Queen that unleashes scandal, romance and intrigue – and some wonderfully pithy put-downs by TABLES - We will shortly be the Dowager Countess. replacing the tables in one of our th classrooms and will have the old ones Tuesday 18 February - 7.30pm available for free. They would be ideal Hall and licensed bar open from 7pm for a garage, shed, workroom, Tickets £5 in advance or £6 at the door playroom - 120cm long, 60 cm wide  01264 738 303 or and 70cm high. If you would like one [email protected] (or more) please contact the school office on 01264 www.stmarybourne.co.uk 738336 or email Next film: Mrs Lowry & Son [email protected]

th Tuesday 17 March - 7.30pm Toads on Roads St Mary Bourne Village Centre and St Mary The Sustainable Bourne Valley Group are Bourne Village Shop & starting a toad patrol near the Derrydown surgery junction with the B3084 after Post Office will be holding reports given us of squashed toads found their AGMs together at 7pm on the main road and also near the surgery. on Wednesday 26th Toads journey back to their ancestral ponds February in St Mary Bourne in spring from their often far away feeding area (for a toad). Village Centre and all are welcome to attend. Come As they are grey brown, warty and only crawl they look and have a drink and find out how we fared in 2019 pretty similar to the road and are easily run over. They are a biodiversity priority species because of recent declines in and what we are planning for 2020. We both really numbers. We are a registered site with froglife and have appreciate feedback and ideas for your community applied for road signs from Hampshire County Council, but assets and welcome new volunteers for our as it is so mild they may well start moving very soon. They management committees. choose mild, damp nights any time from January if very mild to April if it is a cold spring and set off (rather slowly) Village Shop - December 1☺☺ Club Draw: from dusk onwards. The toad patrol will try to be in position £50 – E Lind-Smith; £20 G Radford; when they decide to go for it so look out for us with yellow £20 – R Plincke; £10 – G Darwent. jackets, torches and buckets to help them across, but we may well miss one of the big nights so please slow right Christmas Special £50 - J Nelsey down either side of this junction and let them cross safely. Village Shop – January 1☺☺ Club Draw: Would anyone like to join the patrol as more volunteers are £50 – J Culley; £20 P Gaffley; needed? Phone 01264 738 579 or email [email protected] . £20 – D Peart; £10 – M. Crofts.

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Summary Report - Parish Council Meeting EA also has a temporary defense deployment plan for our area Tuesday 10th December 2019 which includes the siting of temporary barriers, sandbags and pumps. If required the Parish Council has a stock of sandbags Seven parish councillors and the clerk attended the meeting. available for immediate deployment and contact details can be Borough Councillors Falconer and Izett, County Councillor found within the SMB Emergency Plan which can be found on Thacker and eight members of the public attended for part of the pc website under The Bourne Rivulet tab. There are also the meeting. links to other sites with relevant information regarding flooding - www.stmarybourne-pc.gov.uk . There will also be regular In the time for public speaking six residents of Egbury outlined updates posted on Bourne Valley Signpost if/when required. detailed objections to planning application 19/02029/FUL The good news is that with the remedial work that has been (Egbury Farm Barns). In the subsequent discussion, Cllr carried out down our section of the valley during the last Falconer stated that he had met B&DBC planning officials on eighteen months i.e. the silt clearance, clearing under the 20th November to discuss various issues in the Bourne Valley bridges and the river bank restoration work, means the river is and had advised that this application should be resubmitted running extremely well. This work has to date prevented the with two separate applications for conversion and new-build. river breaking its banks and flooding the roads, as it did during The council resolved to object to the current application on the 2013/14. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the EA grounds that it had been significantly changed and a new for their help in funding this work and also Hampshire CC for application should be made. facilitating the bridge clearance and the work to increase the Borough Councillors’ Report - Councillors Falconer and Izett capacity of the culvert at Jones Farm, Stoke. reported that due to the lack of local housing provision for the If anyone would like more information, please contact the near future (5 years), national housing policy would come into Parish Clerk, Jo Exelby - [email protected] or effect and some policies in Local and Neighbourhood Plans 01264 738 039 would no longer apply. It was suggested that the parish council David Peart - Chairman of St Mary Bourne Parish Council should meet the planning officers to discuss how to mitigate this problem. Improving continuity of care “pods” County Councillor’s Report - Cllr Thacker reported on HCC’s response to the Wheelabrator consultation. No official objection “I always see a different doctor or nurse” is a common could be made until the application had been submitted to the complaint when people talk about their general practice. At Secretary of State (Jan or Feb 2020). In addition to HCC’s Two Rivers this does not happen. When you are ill it is good concerns he expressed personal views about possible heavy to see a familiar face, someone who knows you. Doctors traffic diversions through Longparish or Whitchurch and the and nurses find consulting with people they know easier too likelihood of waste coming from outside Hampshire to be – there is more information at their fingertips to help reach incinerated. a diagnosis and plan tests and treatment with you. This also Cllr Thacker also discussed HCC budget cuts and how this benefits the NHS. Patients of General Practices which value might affect the lengthsman scheme. continuity are less likely to attend A&E or need emergency New Parish Councillor - Following the resignation of Tony hospital admission. Styles, the parish council filled the vacancy by co-opting Jo Since the merger of Derrydown Clinic and Whitchurch Perry as a member and Cllr Perry signed her Declaration of Surgery into Two Rivers Medical Partnership you will have Acceptance of Office. noticed many changes. One is that by booking a fifteen- Recreation Ground and Lake - The notes from the meeting of parish councillors and lakeside riparian owners on 19th minute routine appointment at the surgery we want you to November were accepted. see the same doctor or nurse practitioner you saw last time. The clerk is liaising with Nik Cross, B&DBC IT specialist, to If you book a telephone appointment, again, it is likely to be resolve the issue about play equipment reports. with a clinician you know. This is called “continuity of care”. At Two Rivers Medical Partnership you are in one of four Next Full Parish Council Meeting: groups (we called them “Pods”). Each “Pod” has a GP and a th Tuesday 11 February, 19.30 nurse practitioner. Dr Jim Rose works with Anne Hardiman, Village Centre Club Room / Public welcome Dr Dan Lickman with Rachel Sidwell, Dr Paul Barber with Maggie Harris and Dr Jenny Hartley with Barbara Harris. Dr All planning applications for the parish of St Mary Bourne can Lickman and Dr Rose are also GP trainers and often will now be looked up by visiting the new parish council website have a GP in training attached to their pod. www.stmarybourne-pc.gov.uk - go to ‘Planning’ and Each “Pod” also has a named administrator to help ‘Planning Tracker’ and use the options available - or by coordinate your care and deal with non-medical enquiries. contacting the Parish Council Clerk  01264 738 039. When booking an appointment with a GP or nurse Details of all planning applications can be accessed on the practitioner on line, on the phone or face to face this will be B&DBC website - go to www.basingstoke.gov.uk/planning booked with your “Pod” clinician. The care patients at Two Rivers Medical Partnership has improved markedly since the merger 3 years ago. We know SMB Parish Council Flood and Emergency this because the performance of the practice is constantly Group (FEG) - Update 15th January 2020 monitored by the NHS commissioners and ourselves. This Following the heavy and prolonged rainfall experienced data demonstrates the care our patients receive is amongst during the early part of the Winter period the Bourne Rivulet the best in England and 84% of our patients would was in full flow some six weeks earlier than is normal. Given recommend the practice to their family and friends. This the saturated nature of the catchment, groundwater levels are has caught the attention of our peers and recently we were likely to remain high for some time yet. Although at the time of invited to present our model for general practice as a case writing there are no Environment Agency (EA) Flood Alerts in study of innovation. place. We hope you are familiar with your pod and how the The FEG, together with the EA monitors boreholes and systems are operating at your local GP surgery here at Two groundwater levels down the valley and will issue alerts when Rivers. Best wishes, Dr Dan Lickman levels reach the appropriate trigger points. If this happens, the 3 St Mary Bourne & Woodcott Hill & Valley Parish Magazine for Hurstbourne Priors, Longparish and St Mary Bourne & Woodcott February 2020

Nocturnal animals are divided roughly into two groups. There St Mary Bourne Village Centre Presents… are those who strenuously avoid light often going on long Family Theatre Season 2019/2020 routes round lit areas so wasting precious energy; alternatively Half Term entertainment for the whole family delaying or even giving up on mating and feeding routines. nd Toads may be particularly affected by increased levels of ● Saturday 22 February 2020 at 5.30pm artificial light as they have a very short breeding season and may use light to orient towards ponds and aid in synchronicity in breeding. Owl numbers are falling, which it is claimed is partly due to the reduction in suitable feeding areas caused by light pollution. Bats such as brown long eared, greater horseshoe and Natterer's bats are used to operating in very dark conditions using echolocation and encountering bright ALAN can lead to the equivalent of blindness leading to crashes. This also happens to exhausted and confused migrating birds who have to navigate by the stars or visible land masses and encounter unexpected light. Migratory birds depend on cues from natural light sources for timing their migration. Artificial lights can cause them to migrate too early or too late and miss ideal climate conditions for nesting, foraging and other behaviours.

Other animals are attracted to the lights, moths waste energy Lily & the Albatross in their confusion as they batter against the lights and become Far out in the wild and remote ocean is a small family on an old prey to pipistrelle bats who in turn can become prey to cats in fishing boat who pass the time with exciting stories and merry this artificial environment. Outdoor lighting is directly and music. The whims of the water control their daily routine but significantly contributing to the loss of insects and biodiversity Lily finds herself gazing upwards, where birds swim everywhere. 60% of insects are nocturnal and it is estimated weightlessly above her head before stealing the precious fish that a third of those attracted to artificial light are killed as a from the fishing nets. With the threat of the nightly storm and result. A new research paper in the scientific journal: BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION printed November 21st 2019 its whipping winds, the family must pull together, take a leap of raises new concerns over the impact of artificial light at night faith and look beyond what they have always known to get (ALAN) on our environmental health. The journal says we have themselves and their old boat moving again. Discover the to take the Insect Apocalypse seriously if we really hope to legend of Great Captain Markham, join the family as they battle prevent a terrible situation from getting worse. Insects are the elements and meet a gliding albatross, who flies in the face lynch-pins of the environment and necessary for most life of the storm and gives Lily the nudge she needs to truly stretch forms to survive including ourselves. Numbers of bats have her wings. decreased so dramatically over the last century that all 17- A tale of wild weather, wild birds and wild ambitions for ages 5+ resident species are now protected by law. Most of us have Show is 60 minutes - Refreshments from 5pm - Interval seen the awful films of baby turtles wandering off to the towns thinking they are following the moon light on the sea. While ● Adult £8.00 ● Child (Under 16) £5.00 poor glow-worms only emit low, greenish light to attract mates ● Family ticket for 2 adults and 2 children £22.00 and can't compete with our LEDs.

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doorstep, keyhole and steps etc. and should only come on with SUMMER 2020 movement to help our wildlife survive. Have thick curtains and close them at dusk to save energy on heating and prevent The Village Centre presents: Camp Albion blazing house lights affecting the night sky. Lastly we can help A new play with music, Camp Albion explores the further by always selecting warm yellow shades of light and even better choose red hues which affect wildlife less, but heroism, humour and heated debate of the avoid greenish tones(think of those glow worms!) and ice white extraordinary moment in Newbury’s history when the and blue shades new bypass was proposed. which have been

found to damage the retina and Light Touch upset our sleep In the Night Garden patterns causing For billions of years, all life has relied on health problems Earth’s predictable rhythm of day and for us and wildlife. night. It’s encoded in the DNA of all plants Our village plan and animals including us. Humans have stated that we did radically disrupted this cycle by lighting up the night sky. Plants not want light and animals depend on Earth’s daily cycle of light and dark to pollution at night in our villages. govern life-sustaining behaviours such as reproduction, nourishment, sleep and protection from predators. 4 Country Oak Buildings

Specialising in: Hand Made Oak Buildings Garden Structures and Follies Traditional Carpentry Techniques Contact Nick 01962 776 217 Mobile 07919 987451 www.countryoakbuildings.co.uk St Mary Bourne & Woodcott Hill & Valley Parish Magazine for Hurstbourne Priors, Longparish and St Mary Bourne & Woodcott February 2020 Post card from Binley December 2019 As I write, Christmas is almost on us and with it the New Obituaries Year and its "Resolutions". Believe me, there is nothing more daunting than turning over a new leaf, God knows the times Adam Jankowski I’ve tried. But righteous souls out there will be doing just that 16th March 1985 - 2nd November 2019 this coming month and I admire their fortitude. Apart from a love of booze, cheese, fried food, Indian takeaways and cigars Adam lived in Fourways Cottage, St Mary Bourne for I live a pretty pure life and don’t see any reason to change it. almost 15 years and attended St Mary Bourne Primary Binley inhabitants I speak to all appear to live out of the frying School with his sister Pia from Reception Class until pan and none as far as I can see are averse to a drink! Some Secondary School. spectacularly thrive on it! It must be because the sun is over He was well known in the village and by members of the yard arm earlier here in Binley than the valley floor. It’s the the farming community and he loved the countryside. nd northerly latitude you see! Tragically he died on November 2 after suffering a Meanwhile Binley continues to rebuild itself. This is not a catastrophic brain injury and the decision was taken to discontinue his life support. criticism and God knows I’ve had enough builders around here over the years but it is remarkable how a hamlet that until Ou r sympathy for his sad loss goes to all his family, thirty years ago had changed so little from say William friends and everyone who loved him. Cobbett's time in the 19th century, has arrived at the place it is today. Now on a dog walk you are far more likely to come across an Earthline tipper lorry than a horse and rider, which says something I suppose. Stuart Oram th st I'm reminded how I used to enjoy seeing Cynthia Sherman 5 December 1953 - 1 November 2019 from Mayfield Farm out and about in a pony and trap. Or Mrs Many family members, long-standing friends and former Prior from Stoke with her little team of Shetlands. Unless you work colleagues filled St Peter’s Church on 26th November to are passing through Wherwell you are very unlikely to see one celebrate the eventful life of Stuart Oram. through the valley now which is such a shame. As a child in Stuart was born on the London in in the 1960’s I would ride on the back of a Rag and Isle of Wight where his Bone man’s cart and help him with his round. Nobody minded father Brian had a boat- me disappearing for the day. I’d sit at the back with my legs building business. He was dangling, the cart would creak and the leather harness squeak the oldest child of Brian and as I watched the road slip by beneath me. There’s something Lan Oram and had one rather lovely about being propelled along by a horse. Scraps of younger brother, Robert cloth I would sort into different piles, linen, cotton and so on. (Boz). In 1959 the family Smelly old bones would be put in a greasy hessian sack to go moved to the mainland and to the glue factory at Bow. Good times. lived in Bourne House, St A glance at the window shows a gentle rain falling on a mild Mary Bourne which became day. This is now classic Christmas weather. In Ireland they the family home. Stuart went to boarding school in would call this a "soft" day, what poets they are! I have seen Hampshire but during the holidays he became an many “soft” days in that beautiful country. Peter Corbett’s enthusiastic member of the steam fraternity. He first learnt pheasants continue to stand in the road by John the Thatcher’s to drive and maintain steam engines during the 1960s and straw dump and sulk. How miserable they look! They loathe that interest continued throughout his life. the rain and like me long for dry, crisp winter days. In 1977, Stuart joined the London stockbroking firm The lanes here are filthy, the verges spread black with rotting James Capel in London where he worked for many years. leaf matter. My terrier, Maurice is low slung to say the least and returns from a walk in some considerable state of He met and married Jo in 1987 and they had two ghastliness. I'm amazed how a creature who is happy to stroll daughters Lizzy (1989) and Katie (1991). The family first through all this muck can then be so averse to a nice warm lived in London and then moved to Ball Hill Farm in Ball Hill bath? near Newbury where Stuart and Jo held memorable parties and Stuart thoroughly enjoyed shooting and fishing. He Talking of William Cobbett, he described Binley inhabitants in continued to work in London until he took early retirement his “Rural Rides” essay of 1825 as “Poor, half-starved wretches in 2007. Then, following the death of his mother Lan, the of Binley!” And a glance through the parish records back then family moved to Diplands Court in St Mary Bourne in 2014 shows very humble livings being made by local inhabitants, in where Stuart continued to renovate and rebuild the family’s fact of the 50 marriages in St Peter’s Church between showman’s vehicles. The steam whistle from “The Little 06/03/1850 and 12/11/1853, 33 of the grooms were labourers, Gem” was blown as a poignant tribute at the end of the the rest being woodmen, bricklayers or the like with one service. exception being a surgeon! I was personally interested to find Many treasured memories of Stu’s life were shared after “Hurdle maker”. Where my kitchen stands now was once a the service in the Bourne Valley Inn. 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Ruth Wells Ruth lived a very full life and her life touched many 22nd July 1925 - 14th November 2019 people over the years. The great friendships and happiness Ruth knew throughout her life were simply a reflection of all Ruth Came was born in 1925 in Devon where her father the love and care she had given to others. was an instructor at Dartmouth Naval College. Sadly, he died when Ruth was only 4 years old from the results of injuries he had sustained in the First World War and she Roberta (Bertie) Grace Hall was raised in difficult circumstances by her mother. st th 1 April 1929 - 20 November 2019 During the Second World War she volunteered for the Bertie Cuthbert was born in Karachi on 1st April 1929. She WRVS. She became involved in homing children who had was the youngest of 3 children with an elder sister Margaret been evacuated from London to Dawlish and this was the and a brother Alexander. Her father Sandy worked for the beginning of a lifetime caring for children. After the war Karachi Port Trust as a Senior Pilot. The family lived on an she was employed as a foster mother in a children’s home island called Manora which was then a colonial paradise but in Bath and it was there that she was introduced to the with war looming, the children were sent to Montrose in work of the Salvation Army. After two years’ training, Scotland to live with their grandparents. Bertie didn’t see her during which she worked in hospitals for the incurable, parents again for 8 years. women’s prisons, and other places which provide support and sustenance to the most vulnerable in society, she She attended school at Montrose Academy and then studied qualified as a lieutenant in the Royal Albert Hall with 400 for a General MA at Edinburgh University. Bertie thoroughly enjoyed university, particularly the social life, and she met other cadets. Robin Hall whilst she was there. Following her commission, she was assigned temporary Her parents returned to placements in Wales and Suffolk before being given a Scotland from India after permanent placement in St. Mary Bourne - a village that she the war, but her beloved grew to love dearly which became and remained for years, father, Sandy, died the centre of Ruth's life. shortly afterwards. Bertie made it her As a Salvation Army officer, Ruth would cycle up and mission to care for her down the Bourne valley from Longparish to Combe visiting mother, Gracie, until her the sick and the needy. On her journeys she would often death aged 93. pass a young man delivering groceries from the village shop Bertie and Robin in St Mary Bourne. This young man was Roy Wells whose married in 1952 when parents ran the Coronation Robin had finished his Arms in St Mary Bourne, medical training. His whilst Roy, along with sister first job was in Essex Rosalind and her husband and then on the Isle of Les, ran three grocery shops Wight. Tim was born in the valley. Ruth’s love for there in 1954, but they Roy meant sacrifice; for if she then moved to Windermere in the Lake District. Their daughter married, she would have to Susie arrived in 1956 and second son Matt in 1959. The family give up her position in the spent many happy times on Lake Windermere until they moved Salvation Army. But Ruth to Hadleigh in Suffolk in 1967. In all these places they made the difficult decision to established strong and lasting friendships. step away from her In 1975, Bertie, together with a great friend set up a Salvationist work and they profitable company of quality skin care products, Kingsmill, married on Boxing Day 1950. which supplied several high-end shops as well as a well-known Their first child Michael was health farm. born in 1951, followed by Colin in 1954. However, after Gracie’s death and Robin’s retirement, they Following years of success as both shopkeepers and pub moved to Eyles Cottage, St Mary Bourne to be nearer their proprietors, Roy and Ruth retired from business in 1978 and daughter Susie. Sadly, Robin died in June 2003. Then Bertie’s settled into retirement. In 1979 their first grandchild inner strength came to the fore. arrived and very quickly the family expanded further. It She was always stoical, brave and upbeat. As her was not only her own grandchildren that occupied her time, boundaries became smaller she still loved to know what was there were many nieces, nephews and children of friends in going on in the world and with family and friends. the village that Ruth looked after at various points. Also during that time, Ruth was an indefatigable fundraiser, Bertie’s focus was always family. The arrivals of her helping to raise money at every possible village occasion, grandchildren, Cheskie, Alex, Paz and Ed were a very special particularly through the sale of cakes and teas at joy. The grandchildren loved spending time with her, for her community events. kindness, her love, her cheekiness and for her intelligence. Within the family she was referred to as ‘The Wise One’. She Roy and Ruth moved to Andover in 1998 and then Ruth’s was a very special person and is much missed. greatest challenge came after Roy’s passing in 2007. She The family would like to thank Derry Down Clinic and the showed great resilience in those difficult times. Her earlier incredible Palliative Care Team for their help, and are so Salvation Army Officer training provided a backbone of grateful for all the love and support from dear friends in St strength – she was always active, always sociable, and Mary Bourne. always curious about others.

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Birds of Longparish - An Early Richard Stanbrook - The end of the story January Walk by Chris Bowman By Henry Yelf

We started off from home, the dog and I. Down the The last issue of Hill and Valley of 2019 continued the story backtrack just a few goldfinches on Chris's feeders. of Richard Stanbrook, the Longparish man born in 1831 He told me he had 45 the other day. A couple of who rose from poor circumstances to become a house sparrows on Arthur’s feeders and the bushes are very quiet. Turn left and a chaffinch is sat at the prosperous builder, thatcher and owner of watercress top of a tree at Vine Cottage. On around the bends a beds. couple of cock pheasants are in the stubble field along with a flock of jackdaws. Nothing else about, In 1913 Stanbrook stepped in for a second time to so on we go and stop at Woodwalk to see what’s on refinance a local charity started by the late Richard Richard’s feeders, blue tits, a great tit, a coal tit and a Widmore to ensure blankets could continue to be greenfinch. Turn right into the Cleeves only a few distributed to the poor of the village each winter. goldfinches in alders. On to the weir, a nuthatch is calling from an ash tree and it takes me a while to I suggested it was unclear what eventually happened to find it. the charity. The answer was supplied by village historian On we go along the small stream which runs beside Mary Jo Darrah who, at the time a Parish Councillor, was the road. This is very high now. Another 2 or 3 inches involved in winding it up in 1998. and it will overflow. A chiffchaff is sat on the fence. Every now and then it darts out to catch an insect. The history of local charities were detailed by Mary Jo in Turn right at the crossroads very quiet along here the 2011 Village handbook, quoted below: only a few tits. There is a red kite behind Vale Farm. At the lake, or as I now call it, the duck pond there THOMAS BAKER in 1696 gave a yearly rent-charge on are coots, gadwall, tufted ducks and a swan. Moving Baker’s Yard, which became part of the Middleton Estate, on, a small flock of redwings fly out of the ivy of 10 shillings for teaching poor children. In 1969 Captain followed by two blackbirds. A pair of carrion crows in Andrew Wills bought Treasury stock to produce a similar the field to my left and a buzzard sat in its usual tree. sum. Turn right over Pig Bridge and up to the fishing lakes and see herring gull, black-headed gull, grey heron, JAMES WIDMORE who died in 1825 left in his will £333 6s Canada goose, greylag goose, moorhen and a lot 8d in consolidated stock at 2 ½% to buy blankets and more tufted ducks. As we carry on a robin sits on the clothes for the poor, which was originally administered by fence singing and a pair of mistle thrushes are looking the churchwardens and overseers of the poor and later by for worms in the grass. Turning right onto the bridge the Parish Council. a little grebe and a couple of mallards - nothing else. A lot of woodpigeons fly over followed by a magpie. Richard Stanbrook in 1913 gave £136 0s 5d in consolidated Turning right there is nothing much in the pony stock which was administered by the Parish Council. paddock. A little further on a pair of collared doves are sitting on the wires and a pied wagtail is on the These charities were amalgamated in 1969 and the Rector thatched roof. and two others nominated by the Parish Council were We turned left trustees under the Charity Commission. In 1983 the annual into the Acre up income was about £12.22 a year which was not enough to the backtrack. A carry out the wishes of the founders. The charities were dunnock is in the finally wound up in March 1998 and the balance of the roses and we are funds amounting to £335.58 was given to Longparish home. I hope you enjoyed our walk School to help poor children of the Parish with educational in total we saw 35 extras. different birds. It was while delivering blankets at Christmas 1913, a short while after making his donation, that Richard Stanbrook caught a chill and died. His headstone still stands in Longparish cemetery. Buzzard

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Hill & Valley Parish Magazine serving Hurstbourne Priors, Longparish , St Mary Bourne & Woodcott February 2020 Longparish Little School Annual Parochial Church Meeting

Happy New Year from all at Little School. Monday 2nd March 2020 at 7.30

Christmas was action-packed. We performed our nativity St Nicholas, Longparish play in the church, visited the Arbory Residential Home to The Annual Parochial Church meeting of St Nicholas will sing Christmas songs, and we had a Christmas party with take place on Monday 2nd March at 7.30 in the Woodcock lots of food and dancing, and a visit from Father Christmas Room in the Village Hall. himself! Meanwhile, the grown-ups took part in a pub quiz There will be reports on annual accounts to December 2019 at The Cricketers which raised a fantastic £388 for Little and church activities during 2019, the election of School. Churchwardens and PCC (Parochial Church Council) members. All are welcome to attend. If you are not a January might be a quiet month for some, but we have regular church goer, but are interested in your village been busy. Barnardo’s came in to talk to us about healthy church, please do come.. eating, and a Professor of Science let us loose with some Jane Young PCC Secretary experiments! We’ve read our favourite story books and even performed some of them. In ‘Sports with Ed’, we worked on our core strength and co-ordination. Longparish Parish Council Report from Meeting Held on 13 January We are currently taking bookings for next September. Minutes of previous meetings are available on the current Spaces are filling up fast, so please contact us to arrange a or archived Longparish web-site (longparish.org.uk). visit to our preschool and forest school. You can call us on 01264 720455 or email Planning - The Council had no objection to: [email protected]. We do currently have • Tree work at Church Farm Cottage afternoon sessions available. • Erection of a wooden shed at 134a North Acre

Visit our Facebook page: Wheelabrator Waste-to-Energy Facility www.facebook.com/longparishplaygroup/ updateThe PC submitted a formal response to the Wheelabrator consultation, and members of the Council are scheduled to attend a meeting at TVBC to discuss the details. The results of the village survey are listed separately in this edition of Hill & Valley. The Reverend Terry Hemming, formerly of Longparish, has been appointed Master of St Cross Winchester. Many The Plough Inn congratulations to Terry on this prestigious and eminently The property is up for sale, which has triggered the Asset suitable appointment. His licensing service will be at St of Community Value process. This gives The Plough Ahead th Cross at 3pm on Sunday 8 March. Terry and Ruth will be group the opportunity to raise a bid for the pub. very pleased to see as many parishioners from this Love Run benefice as are able to be there. The “Love Run” between Longparish and Barton Stacey Prayer list in St Nicholas Church with the aim of increasing awareness about the Wheelabrator incinerator proposal was discussed. There is a prayer list at the back of church and anyone can Repairs to the stream bank add the name of a friend or relative who is ill or The Parish Council is investigating ways to repair the experiencing a difficult situation. But please make sure stream bank alongside the highway, which has badly that the person concerned is willing for their name to be eroded over the years. TVBC has been approached for added. advice, but the PC has been advised to raise the matter These names are included in our prayers during the with Hampshire County Council. services on Sunday. St Nicholas Church is open every day Next Parish Council Meeting (open to the public) until dusk and is a lovely, tranquil place to spend a quiet 1930 hours on Monday 10 February in the Village Hall. moment and say a prayer. Chairman – Christian Dryden (Tel: 720398, or email: [email protected]). 2 L.C. FOSTER & SONS. MASTER THATCHERS 01264 738 209 07968 860 423 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.lcfosterandsons-andover.co.uk

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I hold regular surgeries for all constuents in North West Hampshire Hill & Valley Parish Magazine serving Hurstbourne Priors, Longparish , St Mary Bourne & Woodcott February 2020 Mummers’ Play Longparish CC Thank you to everyone who Longparish Cricket Club are a braved the weather to friendly and welcoming village side watch the Mummers' Play who play their cricket in the Test at the Cricketers on Boxing Valley in Hampshire. The Club runs 3 Day. There were ad libs men's teams - the 1st XI play in the Hampshire galore and true-to-form, the League Division 1, 2nd XI in Hampshire League Yorkish knight was Division 5 NW and the 3rd XI in Hampshire League eventually slain and revived. The collection raised Division 6 NW. The Club has a strong junior section £100 which has been split between Mityana and the offering coaching to players from the U9 age group Andover Foodbank. Thank you to everyone who upwards and runs junior teams at U11, U13 and U15 contributed. age groups who play in the local leagues. We are always looking for new members - adult and junior - so if you are interested in playing for the club this summer please email Justin Jackman at [email protected] or visit https://longparishcc.hitscricket.com/

LCA - L2SOTM - The Longparish Second FILM NIGHT Sunday of the Month handicap race Longparish Village Hall

It was a lovely sunny morning for the January race. It may have been the weather or it may have been New Year Monday 17th February Resolutions but either way we had an above-average field of 31 runners including newcomers Monty Lawson, Sharon Downton Abbey Read, Kathleen Moore and Mandy Atkinson-Willes.

First home and Most Improved Man was Dave Henery. Sheila Evans was Most Improved Woman and our Rising Star was Freddie Brown. Freddie recorded his best time ever as did Wojtek Majka, Matt Jeffery, Andrew Jones and Jack Dundas Well done all!

Thanks very much to Luke Pierce, David Gould and Maggie Barber for marshalling, to Maggie for the Doors open at 7:15pm Film Starts 7:45pm sharp refreshments, to the Free entry to LCA members Join on the night for just £1 adults who accompanied Donations welcomed. juniors, to Andy Smith for doing the signs, to David for crunching the numbers

and to the Cricket Club for PILATES the lovely venue.

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satellite & aerial Hill & Valley Parish Magazine serving Hurstbourne Priors, Longparish , St Mary Bourne & Woodcott February 2020 Taverns, can find new tenants this would mean that Longparish will be without a pub. At the time of writing, a number of options are being explored to either work with Red Oak Taverns to find a way for the village to take on keeping the doors open while they seek new tenants, or perhaps arranging a series of ‘pop-up pub’ events in the village hall. Ian and Lorraine say that

they have enjoyed their time in the village and thank customers The Plough Inn is now up for sale. It went on the market in for their support. They say that “with the large overheads, December, following the planning appeal hearing decision last making a living out of a small country pub is very tough and we October. have decided to seek pastures new.” They are going to a Wadworth owned pub in Calne Wiltshire – The Jenny Wren. The owner has notified Test Valley Borough Council of his Andy Jolliffe – Longparish Community Pub Ltd intention to sell while Longparish Community Pub Limited (LCPL) has told the council and the selling agents that it will be submitting a bid. Because the Plough is protected as an Asset of Community Value, the owner cannot sell to anyone else for six KEEP TEST VALLEY BEAUTIFUL th months – so not before June 16 this year. However, the owner Bin the Incinerator Campaign is under no obligation to accept our, or any other, offer.

The LCPL has a detailed plan to bring the Plough into community Parish Council Survey. The Parish Council conducted a survey in ownership and create a viable community asset for now and the village asking for views on the Wheelabrator proposal. These future generations. It would be somewhere we can all enjoy as a are the results: place to meet friends, have a drink and take our families. 311 survey forms were delivered with the Hill and Valley in early December. 172 forms were returned. 359 adults are against the But this plan will need serious funding: Over £600,000, assuming proposal (98.6% of adult respondents). 1 adult in favour. 4 were the owner will accept a realistic offer. While some of this will neutral. Of the 48 responses received from 11-18 year olds, all come from a mixture of loan and grant funding, it’s hoped a were against it. Taking into account the population of approx. significant proportion will come from the community in the form 539 adults, the Parish Council feels they have the backing of the of shares. Residents, local people and friends would buy shares village to continue to oppose the proposal by Wheelabrator, in LCPL, a registered Community Benefit Society. over the next stages of the NSIP process. Their full response to Investing in LCPL is a social investment. the Stage 2 Public consultation before Christmas can be found on the Longparish village website, or contact the clerk for a paper It’s not designed to generate large profits and should be copy. regarded as a long-term social investment for the community and one that will put the pub on a viable, long term, and Caroline Nokes MP Questions the Prime Minister in sustainable footing. The return on investment comes through a Parliament `social dividend` i.e. preserving the Plough as a valuable asset for The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has told our MP Caroline the community, and with a potential for a modest interest Nokes that he is “greatly concerned” about global warming. His payment on the shares. Any surplus profits would be only used comment was in response to her query about the Wheelabrator for the benefit of the community. In time it may be possible to Harewood incinerator proposal during Prime Minister’s sell shares back to LCPL. We are also investigating how social Questions. Keep Test Valley Beautiful, which is campaigning investment tax relief (SITR) could also help investors. against the scheme, say it is “encouraging” that Mr Johnson is linking incinerators to climate change. Once the pub is owned by the community, it will also be possible Wheelabrator estimate that burning half a million tons of waste to explore a wide range of additional amenities so the Plough in a year will release more than 434,000 tons of global warming can be ‘More than a Pub’ and host a wide range of community CO2 into the atmosphere. services. During the first PMQs of the year Ms Nokes told the Prime A full business plan and share proposal will be published very Minister: “American company Wheelabrator has a track record soon. You can keep up to date with news and events on of breaching environmental legislation in the USA and now seeks www.ploughahead.co.uk to build a massive incinerator in the Test Valley.” She said:” Local residents are looking to the government because The Cricketers of their concerns about emissions levels and are seeking assurances from my right honourable friend the regulations on It’s looking very likely that, by the time this magazine is emissions from incineration will be further enhanced and published at the end of January, the Cricketers will have closed greener alternatives encouraged.” and will be seeking new tenants. Until the owners, Red Oak 5 TRY TO BEAT OUR PRICES

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Stop the Incinerator Campaign Some people think that the incinerator proposal is bound Update from David Wright, Chair KTVB to be withdrawn because there were so many objections. Steering Committee Others think that people who objected need do nothing more. They are wrong. And there are lots of people who Over 5400 objections were sent to Wheelabrator during are still blissfully ignorant of the size and scale of what is the recent consultation phase which closed on 12 proposed. So we need to maintain and increase awareness December. This is a very significant number. The letters in the lull before the formal planning application. include heartfelt pleas from our school children, pages of forensically argued rebuttals and everything in between. The LOVE run is an effort to do that. LOVE stands for Linking Our VillagEs. The villages being Longparish and Hampshire County Council have told Wheelabrator that Barton Stacey. It is a run not a race. the proposal is in breach of their planning policies, and that the location is not appropriate. Test Valley Borough Council The idea is to run between the two villages (football pitch have rejected the adequacy of Wheelabrator's consultation in the strongest possible terms. to football pitch). It is cross country and a bit over 6 miles (10K) on footpaths and quiet roads. It includes good Our own professional team have provided a damning viewpoints of the incinerator site. The run will be in the report on the adequacy of the consultation and the morning of the Sunday before Valentine's Day which is 9 appropriateness of the proposal. A copy of the report, and February. You start at either end and run to the other. the reports from TVBC, HCC and other local councils and When you meet someone coming the other way greet organisations, can be found on our website at them, high 5 or whatever. Be aware that the weather may bintheincincerator.co.uk. be poor and wear appropriate clothing. Trail shoes are There is a long way to go. If you would like to help further recommended. in this campaign, please register on our website. This will allow us to send you updating emails and requests for help. There's great interest on social media already. We need Due to data protection regulations if you do not do this, marshals, cake makers, and cheering crowds as well as we will not be able to contact you. runners. Please help.

Although we hope that the strength of opposition to this Entry is free but we hope you'll make a donation to Keep project might make Wheelabrator think again, we are Test Valley Beautiful on the day. Children of 8 or over are preparing for them to continue. We are developing our welcome provided they are accompanied by an adult. plans and strategy to continue the fight. Our professional Well-behaved dogs are also welcome but must be kept on planning experts are ready for the examination phase. We a lead. Please contact me if you are able to help. The more are already talking to our MPs about how best to continue the merrier. If you'd like to run please enter here the political pressure. The ball now is firmly in Wheelabrator’s court. We await their next step. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-love-run-tickets- 89990204123 David Wright Jeremy Barber Tel 01264 720459 Chair KTVB Steering Committee email [email protected]

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HURSTBOURNE PRIORS Andover Artisan Market 18 10.15am onwards - Ladies Coffee Morning at 28 Hurstbourne Priors Sunday 15th March 2020 23 10am to 12 noon - Big Breakfast and Pancake Race - Village Hall 10am to 2pm - High Street 24 7.30pm - Vestry Meeting and Annual PCC Meeting - Village Hall

ST MARY BOURNE & WOODCOTT Half Term Family Theatre Tall Tree Theatre presents... 6 2.30pm - Women’s Fellowship - at The Cottage 11 10.30am - Coffee at The George - The George Inn Lily & the Albatross 11 7.30pm - Parish Council Meeting - Village Centre Club Room A tale of wild weather, wild birds and 13 2.15pm - Scramblers - St Peter’s Church wild ambitions for ages 5+ nd 18 7.30pm - ‘The Film’ - DOWNTON ABBEY - Village Centre Saturday 22 February - 5.30pm 19 12.30pm - ‘The Lunch’ - Village Centre St Mary Bourne Village Centre 22 5.30pm - ‘Lily & the Albatross’ - for ages 5+ - Village Centre Details on St Mary Bourne page 4 25 6.30pm - Parish Council Planning Committee Meeting 26 7pm - Joint AGM Village Shop & Village Centre - Club Room Saturday mornings 10.30am to 12.30pm - The Community Library - Village Centre Club Room

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If you have a photograph that 9 The Love Run - Longparish to Barton Stacey or vice versa could be used for the front 10 7.30pm - Parish Council Meeting - Village Hall cover of Hill & Valley, please 11 7.00pm - Tuesday Talk - Village Hall send it to one of the editors 14 9.15am - Litter Picking - Village Hall listed below. Please send any contributions in portrait and jpg 14 10.00am to 12.00 noon - Coffee Shop - Village Hall format if possible. 17 7.15pm - Film Night - Downton Abbey - Village Hall 25 7.00pm - Gardening Club - Village Hall 28 12.00 noon - Lunch Club - Village Hall Front cover photograph: Michael Widén

Hurstbourne Priors Village Hall: Mrs Anne Yeaman,  01256 896432, e: [email protected]

Longparish Village Hall: Mrs Jacqui Healey,  07748 322533, e: [email protected]

Longparish Community Hall: During school open hours, Mrs Christine Leach  01264 720317 During school holidays and half terms  07799 643032 St Mary Bourne Village Centre: Miss Angela Cook,  01264 738158, e: [email protected]

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