The Chignals November 2019 information/welcome Information and contact details about the services, community groups and facilities for the residents of pack and Chignal Smealey Chignal Notice Boards

The Parish Council has provided three Notice Boards where you can see Information and contact details about the services, a map showing local footpaths and bridleways, details of up-coming community groups and facilities for the residents of events and activities such as Coffee Mornings and Quizzes, public Chignal St James and Chignal Smealey information notices and Parish Council Agendas. The Notice Boards are located at The Village Green, outside the Village Hall in Chignal St James and by St Nicholas Church in Chignal Smealey.

Village Green, Chignal St James

Village Hall, Chignal St James An automatic defibrillator is now located in the Village Hall car park, this is designed for emergency use by members of the public, the unit gives clear audio instructions.

The access code is on the internal Village Hall Notice Board or it can be obtained from the Ambulance Service St Nicholas Church, Chignal Smealey dialling 999 and quoting the location Third Edition: Published November 2019 or postcode:- CM14TS with the support of Chignal Parish Council

01 Contents WELCOME TO

IFC Chignal Parish Notice Boards THE CHIGNALS 03 Welcome 04 Parish Council 06 County Council/City Council Welcome to our local community. This booklet is designed to 06 Playing Field give you a simple guide to our Parish activities. We invite you 07 Village Hall to join village life and trust that these activities will tempt you 08 Chignal News to come and get involved in some of what is on offer, as well 08 Chignal Website as giving you some useful information. 09 Jubilee Community Orchard 10 Community Agents 10 Chignals and W.I. Although our villages are spread over a 5+ mile radius there 11 Chignal Coffee Morning is much going on and all the Clubs and Associations would 11 The Chignals with Mashbury Friends Group be delighted to welcome you to join in. 12 The Chignals and Mashbury Community Group 12 Jigsaw Lending Library It is emphasised that no advertising revenue has changed 14 Carpet Bowls Club hands and that the information given below is by no means 14 Table Tennis Club 15 Cricket Club exhaustive. An attempt has been made to gather a range 15 Croquet Club and variety of useful and relevant information but any 16 Gardening Club suggestions/additions would be welcomed. Look out for 17 Wine Discovery Group ‘Chignal News’, the bi-monthly newsletter and check out 18 St Nicholas Church the website www.essexinfo.net/thechignals for further 19 Chignal Chapel information. 20 Pig & Whistle 21 Three Elms 22 Local Services/Useful information We also welcome any ideas for new activities in the villages, Bus/Library/Royal Mail/Refuse Collection so if you have any thoughts about running or suggesting 23 Shops/Milk/Oil/Broadband/Mobile Phones activities please come along to a Parish Council meeting or 23 Doctors’ Surgeries talk to anyone in the village about starting up something new. 24 Emergency numbers 25 Contacts & Notes B/C Emergency Meeting Points

02 03 Parish Councillors:- 2019 G Championing community Chignal Parish Ms Lynn Ballard – Chairman interests and supporting local 01245 440880 groups and village events. [email protected] Responsibilities: Tree Warden; Council Chairman, Employment Committee; Secretary, Orchard Committee G Liaising with local private businesses whose operations may Mr David Elwick The Parish Council meets every two months in the Village Hall, 01245 441138 impact on the Parish, such as (7.30pm on the second Monday) and considers planning [email protected] gravel extraction, waste disposal, Responsibilities: Planning and Little applications and any other matters referred to it by local Hollows & Copperfield Place Liaison residents, City Council, Essex County Council telecommunications, power supply and agriculture. Mr Malcolm Feltwell and by Central Government. Council meetings are open to 01245 441070 [email protected] the public and there is an opportunity for members of the public Responsibilties: Brittons Hall landfill Engaging in the Chelmsford to raise concerns and ask questions. The Annual Parish G site Liaison: Highways Issues; Chairman, Orchard Committee Meeting is held each March when the floor is given to local Local Plan and supporting commu - clubs and groups to report on their activities. All meetings are nity led plans, such as the Chignal Mr Jon Lewis Villages Design Statement and The 07773 433448 advertised on the Parish Council notice boards and the Chignal [email protected] website. Residents can bring to the attention of the Parish Chignals Parish Plan. Responsibilties: Newly appointed Council anything that concerns them, by speaking to a Parish Ms Linda Nelson – Vice Chairman G Securing external funding to 01245 442625 Councillor or contacting the Clerk, Will Adshead-Grant. [email protected] If matters raised are not the responsibility of the Council, the support a wide range of community Responsibilities: Editor, Chignal projects, such as the establishment News & website; Footpaths & Clerk can bring them to the attention of the proper authority. Bridleways issues; Chairman Budget of the community orchard and Committee

providing small grants to local Mr Martyn Towns The Parish Council has a wide alerts on community safety issues. organisations, for example, part 01245 440189 [email protected] range of powers related to local funding tree work in St Nicholas Responsibilities: Village Hall Liaison; Playing Field; Notice Boards matters: G Monitoring the performance of Churchyard. local public services, such as local

G Managing community amenities bus services, public rights of way, Parish Council Meeting Dates and services, such as the playing roads, drainage, signposts, Full Council Meeting: Every other 2nd Parish Clerk Monday of the Month at 19.30. Mr Will Ashead-Grant, 45 Cherry Garden field, community orchard, notice community policing, domestic Road, , Chelmsford, January May September CM3 1DH boards, phone box, village website refuse collection, litter picking, March July November [email protected] 01245 360811 and newsletter and providing email mobile library, etc. www.essexinfo.net/thechignals/parish- council/parish-council-members 04 05 The City/County Relationship

Essex County Council, the local government body covering Essex, is responsible for matters such as highways, public transport, waste and recycling centres, education, libraries, health and social care, rights of way and country parks. Chelmsford City Council provides day to day services, The Parish The Chignals & Mashbury Village Hall including housing, local Playing Field planning, refuse collection, The Chignals & Mashbury Village modifications, has been demol - street cleaning, leisure The Playing Field (owned by the Hall is owned by an independent ished and the new hall opened in services, organising elections Parish Council), adjacent to the Charitable Trust and run by a March 2017 for regular use by and maintaining the electoral Village Hall in Chignal St James, management committee made up many clubs, societies and local roll. Each type of council in Essex, including Parish is available for hire. of volunteer residents. The hall has residents. The hall is available to Councils, is independent of been rebuilt having been awarded all for hire. each other, although the Contact Martyn Towns a significant sum from a successful different tiers of local Tel: 01245 440189 Community Fund application. The For Hall bookings contact government work together Email : [email protected] former hall, an ex-Army hut erected Cherry Scott in partnerships to deliver services. in 1952 and with many subsequent Tel: 01245 441241

Essex County Councillor Cllr John Aldridge 01245 421524 [email protected]

Chelmsford City Councillor Cllr Nicolette Chambers 01245 456719 nicolette.chambers @chelmsford.gov.uk Front elevation of the new village hall

06 07 The Chignal News The Chignal Website

The Chignal News is the bi-monthly The Chignal Website provides local newsletter for the Chignal villages information, community news and and Mashbury. It is published just photographs. It can be accessed before the Parish Council meeting at www.essexinfo.net/thechignals. and contains the previous month’s It also contains an archive of previ - Parish Council minutes and a ous issues of Chignal News and all report from the County Council. Parish Council Documents will be The Chignals & Mashbury Jubilee In addition, it provides information published on the website. Community Orchard about the activities of local clubs and groups which include the The local clubs, groups, The Community Orchard in Chignal The orchard was funded through Carpet Bowls Club, the Gardening St Nicholas Church, the United St James, near to the Village Hall, the Lafarge-Tarmac Landfill Club, the Jubilee Orchard, the Reformed Church, the Jubilee opposite the Playing Field, was Communities Fund with support Wine Discovery Group and the Orchard and the Village Hall all created in the spring of 2013 for from Edible Essex and the Women’s Institute. There is have pages on the main site. the enjoyment of local people in Woodland Trust. It is managed by community news, helpful advice the Chignals and Mashbury and Chignal Parish Council with a team and information about village for visitors to our villages. It’s a of volunteers who maintain the activities based at the Orchard, the delightful place to sit, relax or have orchard and organise a wide range Village Hall, St Nicholas Church Articles of interest for both the a picnic at any time. There are over of exciting community events and the United Reformed Church. newsletter and website are 70 fruit trees, mostly old varieties throughout the year. It is free of charge and is delivered welcome. of apples, pears and plums origi - to all the households in the nating from Essex and Hertford - To join the growing band of Chignals and Mashbury. The editor can be contacted shire plus quinces and a mulberry. ‘Orchard Friends’ and find out by email To increase its value for wildlife, more, see ‘Chignal News’ and the Linda Nelson, Ivy Cottage, native fruit bearing shrubs have Chignal website: Chignal Smealey, Chelmsford, been planted around the edges www.essexinfo.net/thechignals Essex, CM1 4TA and a wildflower meadow sown to Email: [email protected] augment existing plants such as Email: chignal.mashburyjubilee Mobile: 07769 918276 Scabious, Knapweed, Bee Orchid [email protected] and Cowslip.

08 09 Community Agents Essex Chignal Coffee Morning

Community Agents Essex is a Contact: Felicity Chapman A warm welcome is extended to Contact: Sarah Scott county-wide network of agents Email: felicity.chapman@ residents of all ages to join neigh - Tel: 01245 443497 and volunteers who support older caessex.org.uk bours for a chat over tea/coffee Venue: Chignals & Mashbury people and their informal carers Tel: 07305 707742 and a selection of cake and Village Hall to find and develop independent biscuits at this informal event. Time: 1st Wednesday of every living solutions from within their Parish Councilors attend to month 10am to noon local community. answer any parish issues.

Chignals & Mashbury Women’s Institute The Chignals with Mashbury Friends Group a ‘Knit & Knatter’ group to knit squares for blankets for charity, also tiny hats, jackets and shawls We are a small group of residents for the neo natal department at the who are pleased to be able to help We hold our Meetings on the first local Hospital, or even ‘teddies for other residents (whether new to the Thursday of each month at 2pm for trauma’. Some members bring neighbourhood or not) in a variety 2.30pm in the Village Hall, We have along their craft items and share of different ways. Over the years a variety of interesting speakers their skills with other members. we have proved that a friendly face each month but in the summer we For the non knitters there is always can do much to help a person have a garden meeting held at one a game of Scrabble. Visitors are whatever their needs may be. helping you in some way, however of the members’ gardens and an always welcome. This may be introducing them to if you feel that we might be of annual lunch in the spring. We are village activities, clubs, like minded assistance, please do not hesitate a very friendly group with 21 Contacts: Janet Campen. Treasurer. people, or something more practi - (leaving a message if needed) by members. We arrange outings or Tel: 01245 440223, Wendy Steel. cal e.g. companionship, someone phoning in the first instance:- join other Clubs for ‘Days Out’. President. Tel: 01245 440868 to talk to, light shopping etc. On the third Thursday of the Angela Flinn. Secretary. We realise that you may already Contact: Helen Towns month, in the afternoon we have Tel: 01245 440080 have a kindly relative or friend Tel: 01245 440241

10 11 The Chignals and Mashbury ideas of activities and events peo - pass on ideas, add your name to Community Group ple would like to see take place. our email mailing list, or if you We do hope that you would like to would like to join our group in mak - As a result of the Parish Plan, a village organisations - part of the support any future events and ing things happen, please phone group of villagers have decided to aim is to bring together those activities and come along when Sandra on 07909 564905 or email set up a Community Group to add groups in joint ventures, whether it you can. We will advertise through chigandmashcommunitygroup@ to and enhance activities and be for fundraising or just fun! the Chignal News and on the hotmail.com events in our wonderful villages. At the moment we are a group of 9 website, through our emailing list We look forward to hearing from Formed in 2017 by villagers - villagers who have already put our and notices around the village. you. some who already belong to other heads together to thrash out many To find out more about the group,

The Chignals with Mashbury Community Contact: If you are interested, Jigsaw Puzzle Lending Library please telephone 01245 440528 to request a visit. If we are unable We have various subjects and to your place of residence, so that to answer your call, please leave levels of difficulty. If you are looking you may choose any that you may your name and telephone number for something to occupy your time like to try. The puzzles may be and you will be called back as and like doing jigsaw puzzles, then borrowed for 4 weeks, after which soon as possible. why not telephone to ask for a a request to have the puzzle(s) below must then be made. There selection of puzzles to be brought collected using the phone number will be no charge for this.

12 13 Chignals and Mashbury Carpet Bowls Club

There is also a good social side to the Club with Pub walks, quiz nights, party nights and evenings out for dining. Chignal Cricket Club

Currently our membership is 21 Chignal Cricket Club, based in the ence welcome. If you'd like to learn Formed over 25 years ago the Club and new members are warmly village, plays in the T Rippon Mid more about the club, please visit meets every every Tuesday 7.30 – welcomed. All equipment is Essex League, with matches taking our website www.chignal.co.uk. 10pm and Thursday 2.00 – 4.30pm supplied so come along to try place every Saturday throughout at the Village Hall. Apart from our your hand and have a cup of tea. the season, which runs from May Email: [email protected] own enjoyable domestic games we until September. We are always on play in the Essex League and also Contact: Gordon on 01245 231406 the lookout for new players, with all Or give club secretary Matt Porter Friendlies against the local villages. or Yvonne on 01245 440189. ages, abilities and levels of experi - a call on 07842 116801.

Chignals Table Tennis Club wanted to start their own croquet no-one sitting out for long. club in the Chignals. Starting in We meet on Wednesdays in the April and finishing in October, we Village Hall from 4.30pm to meet on the first Sunday in the 6.30pm, refreshments provided. month at the village playing field at Membership is only £5.00 p.a for 10.30am – weather permitting! We adults and £2.00 for each session. take our own refreshments (wine We have around 25 members of New members are welcome to just Croquet Club and picnic not out of the question!) varying ages and abilities from the turn up on the day or contact us. and normally finish early afternoon. Chignals and surrounding areas. The croquet club was formed after We enjoy social table tennis and Contact: David Lomas two villagers joined in a Village All adults are welcome, so if this is have a great deal of fun. There are 01245 441467. games tournament just before the something you would like to do 3 tables in our fabulous new Hall or Graham Randall 01245 421596. official Olympic Games in 2012. please phone Lee Bailey on 07917 which ensure plenty of play with Email: [email protected] They had such fun that they 718567 for further information.

14 15 Chignals & Mashbury Gardening Club Chignal Wine Discovery Group

Are you faced with creating a starting at 7.30pm on the 3rd As the name implies one of the We meet on the second Friday of garden from scratch, putting your Wednesday of the month from objects of this group is to discover each month at 7.30pm in the own stamp on an established October to November and new wines and hear about other Village Hall and usually have a garden or tackling an overgrown January to April. Garden visits are aspects such as their production. presentation from an external patch? Help and inspiration is at a great way to get ideas for your The group was formed in 2003 speaker such as a wine merchant, hand: come and meet your new own plot and run from May to and has grown from fairly small although sometimes the presenta - neighbours and pick their brains September (excluding August). beginnings to the present where tion is by one of the members. In on what grows well locally and We welcome non-members on it now has around 40 members. July we hold a summer buffet or how to deal with unwanted pests these trips as well so please join barbecue. A recent highlight was a and plant diseases. Many mem - us – you don’t need to have any visit to the Douro region of Portugal bers are old hands at creating gardening knowledge to enjoy by a large proportion of our group. imaginative gardens and growing these beautiful gardens. fruit and vegetables and all of us The group does not profess to be share a common love for plants For more information, see the experts and we try to make our and our local countryside. We’re a ‘Chignal News’ or contact us at evenings enjoyable and sociable friendly bunch and welcome the email address below. occasions. We are always pleased newcomers: why not come along to hear from potential members if for a free taster to try out one of Contact: Jean Watson anyone is interested in joining. our talks or garden visits. (Chairman) on 01245 345651 or Elaine Hinchliffe (Secretary) Contact: Norman Smith Our gardening talks are held at the Email: gardening.chignals on 01245 440339 or Village Hall in Chignal St James, [email protected] Dave Thomas on 01245 442474.

16 17 St Nicholas Church

Congratulations on living in this about a mile and we are on the left. beautiful part of the world. We usually meet every month on Welcome to our community! the third Sunday at 11am and are Alison Bates Linda Nelson Administrator Church Secretary about 17 people, but more people [email protected] [email protected] 07957 228467 01245 442625 You have chosen a spot which come for Mothering Sunday, makes the most of being near Harvest Thanksgiving, Remem - Chelmsford, but also on the edge brance Day and our popular crib of a lovely rural community with all service on Christmas Eve. Chignal Chapel We have a monthly Coffee Morning the benefits of that. You are part on the third Wednesday in each of the Parish of St Nicholas with We are one of a group with five month from 10.30am to noon. St James in the Chignals with other churches. At our churches in A friendly welcome awaits you all Mashbury and are welcome to the Leighs we have a Funday club at either of these. We have no be part of our community. every week for children and we Sunday School at present but have a monthly Family service at children are also very welcome. You have a right to be christened, , Great Waltham and Little Special services for Christmas, married and buried in our beautiful Leighs. St Andrews Church is also Harvest Thanksgiving and Church church of St Nicholas, which is a just up the road and their website Chignal Chapel (United Reformed Anniversary. hidden gem and always open. is www.st-andrewschurch.co.uk. Church) has been a place of worship for over 170 years. (It was Contact: We are in Chignal Smealey CM1 If you want to know more, do get in formerly a Congregational Chapel). Irene Hindmarsh (Secretary) 4TA – go to the Pig and Whistle touch with one of us. We meet for Sunday Service with on 01245442198 for further details. and keep going straight on for Sunday School at 10.45am. Our postcode is CM1 4TE.

18 19 The Pig & Whistle Chelmsford countryside. Hospital - Twitter.com/Pig_AndWhistle ity and home cooked food six days Facebook.com/PigWhistleChelms - Chelmsford's award winning cosy a week. ford country dining experience serving a Instagram.com/pigwhistlechelms - relaxed lunch, sun terrace dining, Opening Times: ford candlelit evening & relaxing Sunday Monday - Closed (Bank Holiday lunch. We gave the walls a splash Mondays 12 noon to 4pm) Pig & Whistle Restaurant of colour, dressed the tables with Tuesday to Saturday: 12 noon – Chignal Road, Chignal Smealey, linen and lit the candles to reveal a best customer service 2018 and 3pm, 6pm – 11pm Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 4SZ beautiful a la carte restaurant in the top romantic restaurant in Essex Sunday: 12 noon – 8pm 01245 443 186 countryside. Proud winner of the in 2019. Experience our warm, [email protected] Essex Life Food & Drink Awards for relaxed and cosy welcome in the

The Three Elms The Three Elms, Mashbury Road, Chignal St James CM1 4TZ. The Three Elms pub closed for business just before this publication went to print.

20 21 Useful information Useful information

Bus Service Library Milk rounds if your neighbour is a member of a club. For Oil you can consider The service operates on Tuesday North Melbourne Library Milk and More – 3 times a week on www.oil-club.co.uk and log in to and Thursday through Chignal St Dickens Place, (opposite Morrisons) Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday. join the & James and Fridays and Saturdays Copperfield Road, Chelmsford www.milkandmore.co.uk heating oil club. For LPG try through Chignal Smealey, all at CM1 4UU. Tel: 0345 6063606 www.lgpessex.co.uk about 10am. All buses stop at the Tues, Fri, & Sat. 9am – 5pm multi story car park adjacent to Tel: 01245 442292 Drainage, Septic Tank Doctors’ surgeries high Chelmer and terminate at maintenance and Railway Street, Chelmsford with Also – The Mobile Library emptying – 01245 360253 returns at 1pm. arrives at The Green, Chignal St (Lodges 01245 231262 for the latest James every three weeks from There are several local companies Melbourne House – 01245 354370 timetable) 13.40 - 14.10. providing this service – see phone books or ask a neighbour for a – 01245 421205 Royal Mail Tel: 01245 492758 for details recommendation. or www.essex.gov.uk/libraries (e.g. Roe Environment Ltd Dickens Place – 01245 442628 Deliveries usually late morning. for visiting dates 01621 740704 www.roeenv.co.uk) Tennyson House – 01245 260459 Post boxes and collection times – Recycling and bin Broadband & Mobile there are rural post boxes in the collections pones. Local Shops wall at Stevens Farm, Chignal St Mobile telephone signal strength is James, by St Nicholas Church in Thursdays – phone 01245 615800 variable throughout the parish. Chignal Smealey and at Ash Rise or www.chelmsford.gov.uk/recy Broadband fibre to the house 1. Supermarket – Morrisons also in Smealey – normally cling for what goes out when! service of up to 300mb is available is in Dickens Place, Newlands collected around 4.30 – 5pm Mon Refuse collection in Chignal St to most of the parish – before Spring – also has a Pharmacy. – Fri and approx. 8am on Satur - James will be on Fridays from committing to a new service Open 7am to 9pm Mon – Sat days. ( Additional local post boxes November 2019 consult a neighbour. & 10am to 4pm on Sunday. are situated outside Bethel Chapel in Chignal Road and in Copperfield Fly tipping – phone Chelmsford Oil and LPG supplies 2. Walthambury Stores in Great Road en route to Morrisons.) City Council 01245 606606 and Waltham – also has a Post Office ask for ‘fly tipping’ or online at For competitive quotations com - Counter. Open Mon – Sat 7am to www.chelmsford.gov.uk bined ordering saves money. See 9pm. Sun 8am to 12.30pm.

22 23 Emergency numbers Notes

Contact ...... Tel ...... Water Police ...... Email ...... Anglian Water 08457 145145 Always dial 999 in an emergency...... Essex and Suffolk Water Mobile ...... Web ...... 0345 782 0999 To report a non-emergency crime ...... you can: Electricity • do it online service Contact ...... Tel ...... UK Power Networks 0800 1699970 www.essex.police.uk/do-it-online ...... Email ...... Mobile ...... Environment Agency • Call the non-emergency number ...... Web ...... (Floodline) 101 or alternatively 01245 491491 ...... 08459881188 • Call in at a police station Contact ...... Tel ...... Gas There are also other offences that ...... Email ...... may be committed - (unnecessary National Grid Emergency Sevices obstruction, criminal damage etc) ...... 0800 111999 speak to your local Neighbourhood Mobile ...... Web ...... Policing Team to discuss any such ...... NHS Non Emergency issues.

111 Chelmsford Police Team members Contact ...... Tel ...... for the Chignals are CURRENTLY: ...... Email ...... Chelmsford City Council ...... Inspector: Steve Scott-Haynes, ...... Web ...... 01245 606606 Sergeants: Barry Booth, Graham (out of hours 07836 256688) Thomas and Andy Drake Mobile ...... [email protected] Essex County Council Contact ...... Tel ...... (Highways) Parish defibrillator ...... Email ...... Can be contacted online Situated in the Village Hall car park, ...... www.essexhighways.org/transport the access code is on the internal ...... Web ...... -and-roads.aspx Village Hall Notice Board or it can be Mobile ...... or tel 03456 037631 obtained from the Ambulance Service to report either pothole or surface by dialling 999 and quoting the location water damage. or postcode:- CM14TS

24 25 Road map of the Chignals

Chignal Chapel Cricket Pitch To Great Waltham

To Mashbury ad 2 o R G s St Nicholas d e re Church B Chignal Smealey C h Pig & Whistle ig n Community Restuarant a l R Playing o Orchard a Field d Village G1 Hall Chignal St James

Village Green Three Elms To Broomfield Pub M Hollow Lane as hb u Copperfield ry Little Nature R o Hollows Place Reserve ad & Bridal Way Copperfield Road C h i g n a l R o a d

To Chelmsford

EMERGENCY MEETING POINTS

We have two emergency meeting shelters in the village that will be available if shelter is required during major incidents.

G1 Village Hall Shelter: Mashbury Road, Chignal St James CM1 4TS G2 Chignal Chapel Shelter: Mashbury Road, Chignal Smealey CM1 4TE

The Parish defibrillator is situated in the Village Hall Car Park G1 In an emergency the opening code can be obtained from the ambulance service by diallling 999 and quoting the location or postcode CM1 4TS. The code is also available on the notice board inside the village hall when it is open.