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I am writing this exactly three weeks since my team and I arrived in Kenya! It's been a whirlwind of three weeks, experiencing many new things and meeting so many new people, but I wouldn't change it! On Saturday 22nd April upon arrival at the airport, I met the UK half of my team. We all seemed to get on reasonably well and after a thirteen hour flight, arrived in Nairobi. The first task was lifting our suitcases on to the top of the mini busses that were transporting us - which proved very difficult after two days travelling with no sleep! Once we arrived at the guest house, we met the other half of our team and did some team bonding activities to get to know them, then crashed as soon as we could into bed! Continued on Page 6

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An Eighteenth Century Product Harder Than Stone…Page 5

Young Voices from Africa, this page and page 6

Church Wardens of Old…Page 7

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Please let Robin know of any Social Dates FIlMs at tHE WOOlstORE st JOHN’s you have so they can be included in the HACKSAW RIDGE (15) sOCIal EVENts diary. We deliver this magazine door to History/War/Drama door to all our ten villages, and the Wednesday 5th July at 7.30pm COFFEE MORNING editorial team would love to have a Wednesday July 12th greater overview of what is going on in the The extraordinary story of WWII Army and we now start at 11am. villages. Medic, Desmond T Boss, who served CREaM tEas T: 840790 [email protected] during the battle of Okinawa. On Saturday July 29th at 3pm He refused to kill people and became come and join us for our Cream Teas. ROyal BRItIsH lEGION the first Conscientious Objector in Several table-top stalls. WOMEN’s sECtION American History to be awarded the All very welcome to come and enjoy our Medal of Honor. Starring Andrew HEytEsBURy BRaNCH lovely garden (weather permitting!) Garfield and Hugo Weaving Our next meeting will be held on 26th July in the Residents’ Hall of the Hospital of Codford Village Fete St John and is a talk by David Shaw Saturday 15 July 2017 entitled ‘A life of fun and laughter - with 12.00 to 5.00pm some serious bits in between’. We do not Come and enjoy the fun meet in August so our next monthly Branch meeting will be held on 27th September FORTHCOMING EVENTS: and is a ‘Social Meeting’, possibly with a fun quiz. Visitors always welcome. Salisbury Cathedral Boys Choir A Concert E.G. MARTIN LTD St Mary’s Church, Codford When contacting advertisers please tell them that you read about them WESTBURY (01373) Monday 18th September 2017 ! in the Parish News ! 822784 /864676

THE CAFÉ

A Café for and run by the community

Codford Village Hall Every Thursday 9.00am to 11.00am(ish) Come and join us for fresh coffee, tea, soft drinks, cakes and biscuits.

Tell all your friends, bring a friend, make friends, and be a friend! For more information please contact Derek Buckles on 01985 851176 Or [email protected]

sUttON VENy PRODUCE stall We begin again on saturday 15th July. Every saturday at 10.30am on the High street, until end september. a real community event –local produce, veg, fruit, cakes, jams. Come along, browse, chat and be part of the community. If you have produce, bring that along too!

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As I write this we are approaching the Where the mist rises from the sea, ThoUGhT foR ThE MoNTh Summer Solstice, the day that has the Where the waves creep upon the shore, longest period of daylight. Through the Where the wrack lifts upon the strand, Do not be anxious about anything, but in ages this day has been celebrated in all I have seen the Lord. everything, by prayer and petition, with sorts of ways, with festivals and holidays, thanksgiving, present your requests to and in Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Where the sun awakens the day, God. And the peace of God, which Night’s Dream. Where the road winds on its way, transcends all understanding, will guard “I know a bank where the wild thyme Where the fields are sweet with hay, your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus." blows, I have seen the Lord. Philippians ch.4 v.6-7 Where oxlips and the nodding violet Robin Hungerford grows, Where the stars shine in the sky, Quite over-canopied with luscious Where the streets so peaceful lie, Messy Church woodbine, Where the darkness is so nigh, has been busy With sweet musk-roses and with I have seen the Lord. and such fun – eglantine.” we made all The flowers and plants of Shakespeare’s The Lord is here, the Lord is there, sorts of things. childhood, recalled in his play, still bloom The Lord is everywhere. When it got to and blossom on banks and hedgerows. The Lord is high, the Lord is low, story time, we Summer days are days for reflection, days The Lord is on the path I go. got involved, shouting “That’s me!” for slowing down, holidays and pleasant David Adam Singing “Alleluia” jumping up and running evenings in the garden. on the spot and quite a few more too. In the Bible we have Jesus’ words We all need to take time out to rest and These were all to illustrate the different asking us to come away with him to a recharge our batteries. Whether our parts of how Elijah heard God speak to quiet place to rest (Mark ch.6 v.31). Jesus travels take us far away or just a few steps him: not in the earthquake, not in the also asks us also to lay our burdens on him from home, we can enjoy the sounds and wind, not in the fire, but in a small still and he will give us rest (Matthew ch.11 sights of summer, and see the beauty in voice. v.28). Summer months are a good time for the world around us. In activity time, we made seismo - us to listen to Jesus, to take a rest and Wherever we go and whatever we graphs, we broke codes, we blew down look again at the world around us and to do this summer, I hope we all have the junk towers … and in prayer time, we blew find God in every place. chance to take some time out to rest pretend bubbles. Steve couldn’t keep up and recuperate enabling us to return with how many sausages we ate during our tHaNK yOU refreshed. Jayne Buckles meal! We all went home having learned a lot, full of food and having had a lot of THANK YOU to all those people who have fun. worked so hard to help people in need. July 16th is the final Messy Church The Lent Lunches in St John’s raised £500 of this school year and will have the for Mary’s Meals. The Big Breakfast in theme of “The Soldier’s Faith” followed by Corton before the Rogation Service raised a Roman Banquet. Do come along and join £130 for Christian Aid, and brought our in the fun at 4pm in Codford Village Hall. total for Christian Aid up to £702. We look forward to seeing you there. Well done everyone. For more information, KV email: [email protected]

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We meet weekly. The Breakout team has the ability to If you have any prayer requests, inform what local churches are doing in please call Anne on 840339. Warminster, over the next few months, by connecting the families we work with on the street. Would you like your church events to GRIFFIN’S GARAGE be included on a leaflet for the young • Servicing & Repairs • Diagnostics people to give away? Not Sunday services • MOT’s (also arranged for trucks) but a messy church event, would be good. In addition has your church any young • Breakdown & Recovery Service people or adults who would like to be on • Onsite & Mobile Service the Breakout team for the summer events. • Cars • Vans • Plant •Trailers • Machinery Age 13 and up. • Collection & Delivery Available (Breakout is the ecumenical youth group that meets ad hoc during the • Loan Car, Van & 4x4 Available holidays run by the youth leaders from 01985 840 800 www.griffauto.co.uk three of our Warminster Churches) Hill Road - Sutton Veny - BA12 7AT

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The Gardening Club had its annual Plant brilliant tomb in a Yorkshire Abbey that exposed and he was spotted. Ashamed, he Sale last weekend. Quintessentially has a carved effigy of a knight in full slunk over to one of his oldest friends who British, it is a wonderful bean/rose/shrub armour lying above his coffin. He is called was selling tickets in the corner and to and houseplant fest laid on by a devoted Cuthbert the Ineffectual – and has a small whom he has never said no and whispered committee that raises money by selling dog lifting his leg on his chain-mailed foot. in her ear, “I sensed the call; £5 worth green stuff that has been grown in mem - I have digressed from the Plant please”. Parting with one of the new bers’ greenhouses and brought on in cold Sale. While the Guvnor’s wife was buying ‘rubber’ fivers he pocketed his tickets, frames to be ready for the third Saturday a car boot full, the Guvnor was doing what thinking no more about it. Later, a nice in May. A sort of rural Chelsea Flower he enjoys best – chatting up the lovely lady arrived at the door clutching a large Show, it differs only from the real thing in volunteers in the tea ‘tent’ and thanking tome called ‘Villages of Britain’. It is a that it is here, is more fun, has some them for their altruism and time. I happen fabulous prize and he is truly delighted really good cakes and happens only to know that this is sometimes a success - with it. He went straight to the index and between 10 am and midday. ful ploy to get them to forget to charge looked for Codford. Not there, sadly, so in The Guvnor bought a rose bush him for cake. fury he has altered the address on his called ‘Jude the Obscure’. He doesn’t He avoided the raffle until his notepaper and email footer to read: need another rose but fell in love cunning plan over the cake had been ‘Codford the Insignificant’. immediately with its name, thinking Jude needed a boost to her Public Relations. It reminded him of similar people like SARA WOODWARD Ethelred the Unready who was the son of DOG GROOMING Edgar the Peaceful and his Queen, Elfthryth the Fruitful; Ethelred was King City & Guilds qualified of England from the age of about 12 when his half-brother, Edward the Martyr, was ALL BREEDS coNSIDERED murdered in 978 AD (well, he was called LocAL PIckUP If REqUIRED the Martyr later, naturally). Being called ‘the Unready’ was not entirely fair; then, Crufts 1st Prize Winner With oWn doGs it meant ‘poorly advised’ but why spoil a good story and, actually, there really were 01985 840573 no defences when the Danes invaded in 07754 963142 980 AD. There was a rout and Ethelred fled [email protected] to Normandy. When the Danish King Sweyn died, Ethelred was asked to come home – but he wasn’t ready, and missed the boat. King Sweyn’s son was Cnut the Great (or Canute in English) and there is a

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Right on our doorsteps there is a little conservation haven of peace and tranquil - lity, teaming with wildlife and free for us all to enjoy. The Langford Lakes, run by Wiltshire Wildlife Trust, are well worth a visit if you fancy watching birds from a hide by a lake, trying your hand at sketching or photographing in the open or picnicking by open water. There is a large, free car park, level gravel paths between the lakes and an infinite amount of wildlife to be discovered and wondered at. Two words of warning though. Firstly dogs are not allowed, secondly this is a wonderful place to learn more about the plant and animal life around us but, as you are left to discover it for yourself, go armed with knowledge or a source of knowledge. The information boards are few and far between. Page 4 the re-discovery of an 18th century product harder than stone

Between 1767 and until her death in 1821, The clay mix, sometimes coarse, its associated firing techniques, starting Eleanor Coade successfully operated an sometimes fine, was easily moulded into with a complete chemical analysis of a artificial stone business from a premises complex shapes and proved ideal for large sample of original Coade. in Lambeth. She first perfected and statues, sculptures and sculptural façades Now located at premises in Wilton, then produced a specialist, extremely yet had incredible strength and resistance Alasdair and his fellow artists restore old high-quality, artificial "ceramic stone". to weathering. Eleanor's list of illustrious Coade work and create new Coade pieces She called her product Lithodipyra, patrons included King George III and in both classical and modern idioms. It is "twice-fired stone". Her clay mixture examples of Coade work still survive at a time consuming process. The first step included grog (selected fire clays fired to Buckingham Palace. Production ceased in is to carve an original and then to make high temperatures before grinding and the early 1840s and the clay recipe and the many intricate pieces of the mould screening to specific particle sizes and techniques were lost. itself. This process alone may take many added to reduce shrinkage), crushed flint, Artist Alasdair Rennie, now living in weeks. Once the piece is removed from quartz, crushed soda lime glass and ball Codford, spent eight long years of the mould, detail can be intricately clay from Dorset and Devon but the firing meticulous research, together with hours reworked before firing. Modern electri - processes were very complicated and of trial and error re-discovering and cally controlled kilns are very much easier often difficult to control accurately. perfecting the original Coade recipe and to control than the old wood-fired kilns of Eleanor's day - where temperature could only be roughly estimated by monitoring Puppy & Dog Training Classes, the colour of the burning process. Pieces shrink by 5% during the drying process and Behaviour Consultations, Dog Walking, a further 5% during firing, so reproducing a piece from a direct mould is not Dog Sitting & Day Care possible. After firing, the pieces are subtly patinated using a mineral silicate paint Please contact Celia Callan BSc (Hons) Dip CABC although the colour remains largely true Tel: (01985) 850685 or Mob: 07806779749 to the clay. The finished product is so hard Email:[email protected] that a diamond bit is required to cut it after firing. Eleanor used iron reinforce - www.doggietraining.co.uk ments (which have "blown" over time, www.puppyschool.co.uk damaging many pieces). Stainless-steel reinforcements are used today. Professional, Qualified & Insured Tutor TF

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COnTInuED FROM FROnT PAGE having the best time together. sanitation and also teaching them skills for The next day we left for Loitokitok!! A 5 I have also found out the place - the future such as CV writing, interview hour journey through national parks and ments that I will be working on which I am skills and public speaking! We are also Maasai villages, so was incredibly interest - very excited about. I will be working with hoping to improve the grounds of the ing seeing giraffes and then the mud huts the Community Care Centre (CCC), which school, which currently doesn't have any (manyattas) and all the traditional people is an HIV/AIDS testing and treatment access to water or electricity, and try to in the Maasai tribes. Also not forgetting centre, and Boma La Tumaini (BLT) which create a small income and possibly apply the beautiful view of Mt Kilimanjaro that is a support group for people living with for grants to secure the funding. surrounds Loitokitok! HIV. My team of 4 will be running peer The Youth Enterprise Development The following few days we had education sessions on HIV/AIDS to all the Fund is our final project, which provides training about the community and host schools in Loitokitok with the aim to try grants for youth groups and individuals homes, and were then paired with our and increase awareness and prevent the around Loitokitok. We are visiting multiple counterparts (who we will live with) and spread. We will also be trying to set up a groups both in and out of Loitokitok to see matched to a host home! new filing system at the CCC with the aim what they do and what help they need in My house is in a wonderful to reduce waiting times for patients, as order to secure these grants. We are also location, is built out of concrete and has currently the doctors have to search for planning on working with the youth of electricity most of the time so I've been each file for around 10 minutes before Loitokitok to reclaim the use of what used very lucky! However, there is still no seeing a patient. Our other aim is to help to be a Youth Resource Centre, but for the running water anywhere, so showers and the support group at BLT have a market to past few years has been used as a hospital toilets are different! My host family is sell their products such a beaded store cupboard for medicine. Hopefully lovely and my host mum owns a shop in jewellery, and agriculture that is easily after approval, we will be able to run our garden and is also an amazing cook, so kept so they can eat healthily. training on essential skills to the many far so good! We are also working with Skylink young people, and will provide a place Of course, there are challenges, Youth Polytechnic College, which is a that many groups such as dance or drama helping to cook - but doing so outside, rescue centre and vocational school can meet and practice, enabling them to which took a while to get used to! Without for youths. There are four subjects express themselves and develop their a doubt, washing my hair with just a taught here; dress making, hairdressing, talents. bucket of water is also difficult, not to engineering and mechanics. The students We have a lot of work on our mention the fact that the toilets and have so much potential, so we will be hands, and with only eight weeks left it’s showers are outside all the way round the working with them teaching them life a big task; but our team are determined back of the house. The food is sometimes skills, raising their awareness of issues to do the best we can do and hopefully a challenge as well, a lot of rice, beans, such as drug abuse, HIV/AIDS, health and make a positive impact to all these people and ugali (literally just a mix of flour and and children we will be working with. water) so a lot of stodgy filling foods, and Thank you once again to everyone dinner is eaten at 9pm - sometimes later - that has donated and supported me in my so all of us UK volunteers are struggling DAVIS & fundraising journey. I managed to raise with this! Breakfast for most of us is £2400 for VSO to help them continue to usually just bread or a boiled potato - so LATCHAM provide volunteers like myself in the very different to home! The thought of YOUR INDEPENDENT future to developing countries that need food at home is getting me through and I LOCAL ESTATE AGENT our help. Emily Firth have already made requests to my parents WITH EXPERIENCE for when I return!! SPANNING FIVE DECADES Our team of UK and Kenyan Clock & Watch REPAIR volunteers are great, we all get on really 43 Market Place Warminster well and have had multiple social events Wilts BA12 9AZ Kevin Knight (01985) 846985 so far which are so much fun. We have a www.davislatcham.co.uk T 01722 331969 M 07900 928451 good mix of skills and interests, which E [email protected] complement each other, and we are all over 35 years experience All work guaranteed

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The duties of Church Wardens from early many miles from their own surroundings to when agricultural workers were very badly times are many and varied. Beside being learn a trade. ref WSHC no; 1507/61 paid and crops failing year after year. on duty during Church services or The Church Wardens did have a Thus in 1836 Mr Churchill and ceremonies they also had very influential huge amount of authority in days of yore. Mr Withers recorded “to the value of tasks which helped to keep their parishes Not only attending to Services and the 3 shilling and thruppence for 15 dozen orderly. One was to look after a child or parish registers and unfortunately a few, sparrows paid to Charlie Nokes, Charles children who are orphaned, have no father well all right, nearly all, could not read or Bendal and James Swayne”, not much or have a poor widowed mother. Because write until the nineteenth century. They divided between three, but it was honest some were called base-born and the needed to maintain the solvency of the money. Charlie was 23 and Charles 8 years mother had no steady income, the parish church and keep a manageable hold on old. Ref; WSHC no; 1507/33 had to support the children if the finances; the needs of paupers and pauper father was unnamed or unwilling to help children was also a duty for them. It may Barbara Saunt financially with his off spring. be hard to believe that who came to live The mother, often a farm labourer in or leave the parish was within their DOG OWnERS ALERT and relying on casual labour, needed to go control. before the Church Wardens to attend a There was a standard printed form Please be aware with the weather improv - hearing possibly held in the Church, to to be filled in before anyone could move ing, that if you walk a dog in a field where explain her position. If a father admitted to another parish or be able to live in there is livestock, that dog should be on a to fathering her child, he was often bound either Boyton or Corton. There is one lead! I recently observed dogs being to give the mother a certain amount of dated 1736 allowing one James Oke and walked through fields where there were money weekly for its upkeep until the wife Ann to move away with the cattle. The owners walked ahead, with child was 7 years old when apprentice - agreement of four Church wardens who the dogs behind. One of the dogs started ships could be found for the child and the signed the licence. Another small piece of worrying the cattle by barking and parish would pay for the apprenticeship. paper gives Edward and Mary Ellis leave to snapping , and then eventually decided to If the father failed in his duty to move from Pertwood and live in this catch up with its owner. help support the child, he would be parish. Ref; WSHC 1507/62, 1507/59 The cows were not impressed and expected to go before the Church Wardens The Church Wardens were arguably the next person through the field had to to explain why and was often fined. Once custodians of the well being of their parish make a rapid exit, although their dog was the child, either girls or boys, reached the and as all parishioners had to pay a small on a leash, as the cattle started moving age of seven the Church Wardens would amount to help maintain the solvency of towards her in a threatening manner, find apprenticeships for them and off the the Parish outgoings, it was also the duty child would go to their new home often of Church Wardens to keep within that We also have the dog poo problem resur - contribution. facing in our villages. If your dog does its When times were especially hard, business, please make a point of picking the Church Wardens announced they up after your pooch. Some dogs are would pay for the culling of sparrows, making a mess on footpaths and places which obviously were pests. This occurred where people will sit and rest during their for about ten years after 1833 at a time walk, or, as one of my neighbour's put it, stand and gossip? Dog walkers do like to appreciate the wonderful scenery, but spend a great deal of their time having to 
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Finally, the majority of dog walkers are friendly, approachable folk who will pass the time of day with fellow dog walkers, some just need to keep a closer eye on their four legged friends and everyone will be happy!

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CODFORD WEEKLY CAFÉ nOW OPEn! CODFORD VILLAGE HALL DID YOU KNOW? MAnAGEMEnT COMMITTEE- On Thursday 1st June The Café opened AnnuAL GEnERAL MEETInG 2017 The family name of Pothicary, or any of for business promptly at 9.00am. CHAIRMAn’S REPORT the six ways to spell it, have been Thanks must go to all the volunteers and recorded in the Parish Registers for about cake makers who assisted both before and This year I can announce that as a result three centuries. They lived in both Boyton during the morning. of prudent fiscal management and and Corton. In the 1841 censor the many Some forty people attended effective fund raising we have moved out members of the family lived in Pothicary (including seven children) who all enjoyed of debt and our financial situation is Lane, Corton and possibly in just a 4 room various cakes and drinks - thank you to all improving. house. However, the last known Pothicary, who came and made the morning such a Thank you to Codford Parish living in Corton, used to live in a cottage success. Council for their guidance and active where Greenways now stands. Don't forget we cater for all ages - support, particularly in terms of the grant Old Benny Pothicary and his sister magazines, word searches for adults and they have provided from the precept. To Miss Ashton, lived there but had to move lots of toys and games for the children. those who have recently served on the about 1962.When another of Corton’s well We look forward to seeing you all again Committee: Roger Fairbairn, Karl Cleiffe, known characters, Charlie Stokes, tried to each week - don’t forget to bring your Sara Glasby and Steph Nielsen-Hunt. help them by moving the old dresser in the friends. Thank you in particular to Sara for kitchen, the cottage fell down. The only continuing to run and develop the new thing holding the cottage up was the website and Steph for her continued kitchen dresser and once that was shifted involvement as a key member of the the upper storey collapsed. But, calamity entertainment committee. Alec Thomson or not, Miss Ashton was obliged to hand for taking such a strong lead in taking on the front door key to the owner Mr. Jeans the burden of daily maintenance of the which she did saying “here is the key to site, supported in particular by John the cottage but it veld down" and then Wyeth and also John Foster. Alec is also a took to her heels. member of our Development Project Source: Conversation with Lady Team, led by Crispin Edmonds and also Anne Blackinson née Jeans. involving Derek Mitchell. Our employees (Editor. Thank you to Barbara Saunt, for do a great job in running the Hall, the ever this piece. If you have an interesting fact did you KnoW? cheerful Karungi Grant who is now booking about your village please let us know.) To get the maximum use of sunlight clerk as well as the cleaner, and Terri Summer Time was introduced in Webb who has replaced Katie Detheridge A View of Heytesbury, Imber & Knook April1916. Later in 1916 and with the as bar manager and the rest of the bar Parish Council Meetings threat of Zeppelin raids all windows team. were to be darkened including The current committee is: Patricia The members of the newly elected Parish churches, after sunset. Then in Bettaney – Secretary; Don Bartlett, Vice Council met in mid-May when the first October all church bells and chiming chair who is both a councillor and a CVH business on the agenda was to elect new clocks to be silenced, again because of trustee; Ann Levick – Treasurer; Bridget officers. Both Cllr Ann Perry and Cllr Dave the Zeppelin raids. Lorimer – Booking Secretary; Laura Lewis Bond were duly re-elected as Chair and – Bar Member; Dennis Mackay; Murray Vice Chair respectively. Mcleod-Jones. Unfortunately a new Parish Clerk I have two requests for assistance: has not yet been appointed and the post First, we need one or two people is being re-advertised. If anyone is with a little time and the ability to work interested in a part time post, with local within written documents to undertake a government rates of pay, then please short term project assisting us with contact Cllr Perry for more information on reviewing our policy documents against 01985 841474 the sources of best practice available. Also in May the Annual Parish Secondly, we wish to establish the Friends Meeting was held in the school hall. of CVH. Ideas on how to establish this Representatives from a large number of group of friends would be most welcome. village organisations were invited to speak John McIntosh and, interestingly, the recurring theme appeared to be that more volunteers are HEYTESBuRY needed by these various clubs and PRODuCE SALES HEYTESBuRY CHuRCH organisations to help run events. This was an interesting, informative meeting and Our annual sales of produce are now in full was enjoyed by the large majority of swing in the church please come and see attendees. what we have to offer from our gardens All information on Parish Council and kitchens. matters can be seen on the website: We also have a new selection of books on www.heytesburyparish.co.uk sale. All contributions are most welcome. Sarah Buttenshaw Page 8 VILLAge neWs

HEYTESBuRY each section of the churchyard, which will Out of a total of nearly 6,000 individual be kept in the church. burial records, we have now transcribed HEYTESBuRY GRAVE PROJECT The first priority is to record the some 3,600. inscription precisely as on the gravestone, We now have almost all the For some years, a small group has been and here pairs of recorders, armed with information and photos needed to working on a project to produce a single cameras, kneelers, brushes, toothpicks complete the task but we still need help data base for burials in Heytesbury, Knook and Jeyes Fluid, are needed. A close up both in transcribing burial records and and Tytherington. The project is in two photo is often all that is required, al - completing grave record sheets. More parts: first, transcribing into a data base though sometimes, organic growth has importantly, we would like people to come all burial records starting in November first to carefully removed, earth around forward with stories about their relatives 1582; and secondly, recording all graves the base dug away, or we have to wait for and forebears buried in our churchyards. and memorials in our churches and the light to be just right before the Volunteers and those willing to tell us churchyards. inscription can be deciphered and something about their family history are We started with Heytesbury photographed. Many early burials probably asked to ring Joe Charlesworth on 840184. where, thanks to the Heytesbury Church only had wooden markers, long since project, we have an accurate, measured rotted away but even gravestones churchyard plan showing all 431 graves, eventually become so worn or delami - did you KnoW? divided into three sections: A, west; B, nated that the inscription can no longer be 1916 was not a good year for people south and C, north. Each grave is marked deciphered. Our earliest grave with a living along the Wylye Valley with 38 with its section letter and number and readable inscription is that of William Ball camps of trainee troops spaced along now has a file into which all available in - who died in 1675, unique in that it has a the Valley- numbering 38.000 men plus formation, photos of the gravestone concave shape carved out of one side and horses and mules and the resident (front, back, close-up of inscription and a is paired with its adjacent mirror image. civilian population, spotted fever, location shot), photocopies of burial The next oldest is that of William Badder, meningitis and influenza was rife records and, where available, notes about who died in 1709 aged 19, one of two during the winter months. individuals commemorated, are gathered grade 2 listed chest tombs. before being entered onto a grave record Whilst all this is going on, sheet. individual burial records are transcribed nORTOn BAVAnT Once completed, details are also chronologically onto another section of entered into a section of the data base, the data base, formatted in the same way OPEn EVEnInG, ALL SAInTS CHuRCH which so far contains 282 individual so that, eventually the two parts can be entries. The grave record sheets will then combined and any duplicates deleted. The There will be an Open Evening be made available through our website data base can then be shown in both at All Saints Church, Norton Bavant on and hard copies put into a ring binder for chronological and alphabetical form. Saturday 15 July from 5pm to 7pm.

BARTERS PLANT CENTRE Please come and give your ideas as to how we could use our Church for non-religious friendly local Nursery and Plant Centre events that complement and do not fresh plants grown on our Nursery RoadHog Catering Ltd conflict with the Village Hall usage. It will free advice and plenty of parking www.roadhogcaterers.co.uk also be a chance to see our plans for the Open Mon - Sat 9.00 - 5.00 Karen Riggs Church, looking to the future. Your views are warmly invited. Sundays 10.00 - 4.00 Specialists in weddings, hog roasts, (March to June & December) vintage tea parties, garden parties Outdoor catering & bars, hire & Please come and enjoy a social early Sun closed (Jan, Feb, July to Nov) event planning evening with eats and drinks. Just off A36 in Chapmanslade, Fully insured & licensed Westbury, Wilts For further information For bookings and all enquiries ring Tel: 01373-832694 01225 754124/07967 243687 Please contact: John Acworth on 840134 www.barters.co.uk Email: [email protected] or email:[email protected] .

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SHERRInGTOn water. No moorhen chicks at the moment, Where have the amazing, blundering in fact few adult birds. There is often a maybugs gone and no moths come through High summer and on an evening such as gathering of elegant tufted duck and the an open lighted window, what is going on? this who would wish to be anywhere else? pen swan dreams away tucked on her nest I look at the motley herds of calves The garden is bathed in sunlight, the light - on the smaller island. There would be and indeed all the vast dairy herds. When est breath of breeze stirs the air and a general rejoicing if a cygnet or two could I was a small girl and came to summer foam of cloud drifts across blue sky. reward her patience and the cob would at my uncle’s farm in Norton Bavant, The garden seems to be filled with swell with pride! I remember helping to sketch the markings bees, wonderful when one considers the In our garden we are lucky enough of the calves in a special booklet that constant reports of their fallen numbers. to have a goldcrest on eggs in a nest so went up to the British Friesian Society for They are swinging on the nepeta and delicately fashioned, a small miracle entry into the Herd Book. My uncle had the masses of blue geranium, squeezing wrought by only tiny beaks. Our hoped-for the Norvant Herd of British Friesians, one into the inviting foxgloves and of course, spotted flycatcher ignored our nest box of note. I well remember a magnificent the modest, tiny flowers of cotoneaster this year yet again but I saw one feeding bull, Norvant Macbeth who seemed about attract them in their dozens. young in a box tucked under the thatch at the size of this cottage! All is so different On the cress bed clockwork duck - the Farmhouse. now. BL lings dart and weave. This morning I had I have yet to hear a cuckoo this to stand aside to give way to Mrs Mallard year but this afternoon, near Great Wish - SuTT On VEnY importantly marshalling her little platoon ford in the water meadows, Nigel saw two Flower Show of nine across the lane to the safety of the and heard a third all at the same time! Don’t miss this magnificent extravaganza in its 50th Year. See the main advert on the Diary page for details.

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We begin again on Saturday 15th July. We meet every Saturday at 10.30am on the High Street, until the end September. A real community event – local produce, veg, fruit, cakes, jams. Come along, browse, chat and be part of the community. If you have produce, bring that along too!

WEEKDAY SERVICES every week from the regIsters We welcome you to share in prayers for the Church, the Nation, the World, the Sick, and for others as well as ourselves. Weddings Congratulations to Tuesdays Heytesbury 8.30am Morning Prayer Michael Poolman & Gemma Fear Wednesdays Codford St Peter 8.30am Morning Prayer Wednesdays Codford St Peter 9.00am Holy Communion on 27th May at Knook Thursdays Upton Lovell 08.30am Morning Prayer May they have many Fridays Sherrington 8.30am Morning Prayer happy years of married life together Funerals HOUSE GROUPS Our sympathy and love to those Mondays 6.00 - 7.30 in Codford. Contact Clifford Stride 850941 who mourn the passing of Roger Witchell Wednesday (alternate weeks) 7.45pm in Water Meadow Cottage, Heytesbury. On 6th June Contact Diana Hammond 841185 at Upton Lovell & Semington Gerald (Jed) Davies HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN, HEYTESBURY ST GEORGE’S CATHOLIC CHURCH On 7th June at Codford St Peter CHAPEL SERVICES 31 Boreham Road, Warminster BA12 9JP Bruce Gray Sundays 10.30am MASSES On 15th June Eucharist with hymns Saturday 6.00pm at Upton Lovell & Semington Wednesdays 10.00am Sunday 8.00am and 10am May they rest in the peace Holy Communion(1662) and light of Christ CHAPLAINS PARISH PRIEST Fr Martin Queenan Please contact the Ministry Team to make The Revd Russell Chamberlain 01373 824020 arrangements for Baptisms, Weddings, Funerals, The Revd David Walters 01980 620038 ATTACHED PRIESTS Confirmation preparation or Service of Prayer and Dedication after a Civil Marriage. Fr Raymond Hayne Fr Malcolm Ferrier The clergy will officiate at any Visitors are welcome to our services. 01985 212329 crematorium service. Page 10 uPPer WYLYe VALLeY teAm

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juLY The Revd Alison Morley (day off Mon.)

[email protected] 840187 2nd Heytesbury 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP) 3rd Sunday Codford St Mary 9.30am Holy Communion (BCP) MINISTRY TEAM after Trinity Norton Bavant 9.30am Parish Communion The Revd Clifford Stride (on duty Tues.Wed.Sun.) [email protected] 850941 Sutton Veny 10.00am Family Service communion The Revd Diana Hammond 841185 Upton Lovell 11.00am Morning Prayer Choir [email protected] Codford St. Peter 6.00pm Taizé The Revd Jane Shaw 850141 [email protected] 9th Boyton 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP) The Revd Jayne Buckles 851176 4th Sunday Sutton Veny 10.00am Flower show service [email protected] Katherine Venning LLM 840283 after Trinity Codford St Peter 10.00am Family Service [email protected] Codford St Mary 11.00am Parish Communion The Revd Robin Hungerford 840522 Knook 11.00am Parish Communion Patronal Choir [email protected] Upton Lovell 6.00pm Evensong (BCP) The Revd Anne Bennett-Shaw 840339 [email protected] 16th Tytherington 8.30am BCP Communion Patronal The Revd Ian Duff 850291 [email protected] 5th Sunday Codford St Mary 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP) CHURCHWARDENS after Trinity Norton Bavant 9.30am Holy Communion (BCP) Boyton & Corton Susanna Maitland 851191 Codford St Peter 9.30am Parish Communion June Butchart 850845 Heytesbury 11.00am Parish Communion Codford St Mary Bridget Lorimer 850201 Sutton Veny 11.00am Matins Choir Codford St Peter Anthony Bainbridge 851079 Upton Lovell 11.00am Parish Communion Fanny Girardot 851795 Heytesbury Tina Sitwell 840556 Codford Village Hall 4.00pm Messy Church Knook Michael Pottow 850776 Norton Bavant John Acworth 840134 23rd Sutton Veny 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP) Edward Moore 840420 6th Sunday Codford St Peter 10.00am Parish Communion Choir Sherrington Betty & Nigel Lewis 850496 after Trinity Heytesbury 10.00am Family Service Sutton Veny Brian Long 840352 Boyton 11.00am Parish Communion Tytherington Caroline Lester-Card 840022 Upton Lovell Gill Boxall 851171 Heytesbury 6.00pm Evensong Daphne Pullen 851221 LAY PASTORAL ASSISTANTS 30th Boyton 10.00am TEAM SERVICE Choir Codford Henry Collins 850193 7th Sunday Carola Puddy 850308 after Trinity Codford St Mary 6.00pm Evensong Norton Bavant Didee Acworth 840134 Heytesbury: Penny Atkin-Berry 840651 Roger Hammond 841185 August Alison Tebbs 841192 Anne Hawkins 840592 6th Upton Lovell 10.00am Team Parish Communion Sutton Veny Judy Cooper 840953 Transfiguration St Leonard’s 6.00pm Team Service: Evensong U p t o n L o v e l l Sue Bray 850702 Belinda Southwell 850252 (Sutton Veny) BELL RINGERS Joe Charlesworth 840184 PARISH CHOIR Katherine Venning 840283 13th Codford St Mary 10.00am Team Parish Communion 9th Sunday (Lammas) PARISH NEWS after Trinity Boyton 6.00pm Team Service: Evensong Editor Robin Culver 840790 [email protected] 20th Knook 10.00am Team Service: Matins 10th Sunday Chairman David Shaw 850372 after Trinity Sutton Veny 6.00pm Team Parish Communion [email protected]

27th Codford St Peter 10.00am Team Parish Communion ADVERTISING AND EDITORIAL 11th Sunday The Parish News which is not for profit, relies on and is very grateful to all advertisers without whom the after Trinity Heytesbury 6.00pm Team Service: Evensong m a g a z i n e c o u l d not be produced. Prospective advertisers should contact Anne Bennett-Shaw (see details below). However the Parish News does not endorse any of the WeddIngs products or services advertised and takes no responsibil - ity for any disappointment, accident or injury, howsoever 24th June - Sian Blake and Mark Wilkinson- Codford St Mary caused, resulting from purchase or involvement. We wel - come contributions on any subject but reserve the right 1st July - Isobel Neville and Edward Dick - Sutton Veny to edit to fit. Opinions expressed in material from contributors are for readers to appreciate and are not 19th August - Sally Haines and Jason Carter - Codford St Mary necessarily endorsed by the editorial team. All editorial copy should be sent to the Editor 26th August - Molly Stuart and James Payne - Heytesbury by 10th of previous month.

26th August - Camilla Cumming and Nicholas Hornby - Upton Lovell Advertising contact Anne Bennett-Shaw 840339 [email protected] 27th August - Emily Diamond and James Leonard - Sutton Veny Marketplace contact Katherine Venning 840283 [email protected] Please pray for these couples as they prepare for their future life together Printing by Westbury Print 01373 825455 Page 11 u s e f u L c o n tAc t n u m B e r s Area code 01985 unless otherwise stated Please telephone 840790 to change or include a contact number

MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH WOOLSTORE THEATRE Dr Andrew Murrison MP 01225 358584 Codford Mike Davidson 850549 Codford Post Office 850345 WILTSHIRE UNITARY COUNCILLORS Corton John Rigby 850303 CODFORD GARDENING CLUB Andrew Davis 217431 Heytesbury Peter Andrews 840517 Karen Johnstone 850258 Christopher Newbury 01373 822508 Norton Bavant Gordon Evans 840559 CODFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY Fleur de Rhe-Philipe 213193 Sherrington Nigel Lewis 850496 Sir William Mahon 850586 COMMUNITY POLICE Sutton Veny Peter Strangeways 840403 Sally Thomson 850339 Beat Manager: PC Victoria Howick PRE-SCHOOL AND CHILDCARE GROUPS CODFORD LADIES CIRCLE [email protected] Codford Caterpillars Evelyn Read 850831 PCSO: Kim West 851030 PARISH WEBSITES [email protected] Heytesbury Hedgehogs Team www.upperwylyevalleyteam.com Community Police (non-emergency) 101 Annette Pulvertaft 840798 Webmaster [email protected] PARISH COUNCILS Wylye Coyotes Afterschool Club 851713 Heytesbury www.heytesburyparish.co.uk Boyton/Corton [email protected] Norton Bavant www.nortonbavant.co.uk Chair: Caroline Wheatley-Hubbard 850208 or 07805 515863 Sutton Veny www.suttonveny.co.uk Codford Chair: Colin Beagley 850952 PRIMARY SCHOOLS SPORTS CLUBS Clerk: Karungi Grant 850523 Codford, Wylye Valley Badminton (Codford) [email protected] Head: Robert Barnes 850461 Dominique Beagley 850952 Heytesbury Chair: Ann Perry 841474 Heytesbury Cricket (Heytesbury & Sutton Veny) Clerk: Catherine Reade 841087 Acting Head: James Evans 840429 Chair: Justin Wagstaff 840782 Sutton Veny Chair: Stephen Oxlade 841026 Sutton Veny Secretary: Robert Robson Clerk: Melissa Atyeo 840821 Head: Rachael Brotherton 840428 Football ( Codford) Upton Lovel l Chair: Steve Boxall 851171 www.suttonveny.wilts.sch.uk Jason Blandford 850159 Clerk: Nicola Duke 01373 86412 7 VILLAGE HALLS Tennis (Codford) [email protected] Codford www.codfordvhsc.co.uk Chair: Dennis Mackay 850557 ROYAL BRITISH LEGION Secretary: Patricia Bettany 850055 Secretary: Andy Howson 851177 Codford Branch: Bookings: Karungi Grant 850523 STARQUEST Col Nick Quarrelle 851149 Corton Fane Hall Astronomy Club: Pete Lee 840093 Heytesbury Women’s Section: Bookings: Tina Kerr 850373 SUTTON VENY FLOWER SHOW Mrs Sincock 840730 Sutton Veny Chair: Richard Jackman 840899 Chair: Rachel Guerri-Fear 841308 HEYTESBURY, HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN Newsletter: Colin Baker 840033 www.suttonvenyflowershow.co.uk Administrator 840441 Bookings: Gay Woods 840057 WOMEN’S INSTITUTE Sutton Veny DOCTORS’ SURGERY CODFORD 850298 Upton Lovell Bookings: Ros Coombs 851277 President: Penny Carroll 841340 WI LITE Dympna Bell 840514 Think Indian; dine... Wren House Residence for the Retired and Elderly Wiltshire’s Premier Indian Restaurant and Takeaway Wren House in Warminster is a long-established, elegant retirement home, specialising in individual care in gracious surroundings. Having just thirteen rooms, each with a private bathroom, we are able to offer the ambience of a family home, together with caring staff and the facilities to enable our residents to grow old with dignity. NO artificial colourings or additives Mrs Ellie Simmonds, Manager w A healthier choice of Indian cuisine w Wren House Limited, 32 Vicarage Street, Warminster BA12 8JF A36, Codford, Warminster, BA12 0JZ Tel: 01985 212578 Tel: 01985 850081/851260 Email:[email protected]

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