The Chignals November 2016 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 a map showing local footpaths and bridleways, details of up-coming events and activities such as Coffee Mornings and Quizzes, public information notices and Parish Council Agendas. The Notice Boards are located at The Green and 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

St Nicholas Church, Chignal Smealey Information and contact details about the services, community groups and facilities for the residents of Chignal St James and Chignal Smealey

Published November 2016 with the support of Chignal Parish Council

01 Contents

IFC Chignal Parish Notice Boards 03 Welcome 04 Parish Council 06 County Council/City Council 06 Playing Field 07 Village Hall 08 Chignal News 08 Chignal Website 09 Jubilee Community Orchard 10 Community Agents 10 Chignals and W.I. 11 Chignal Coffee Mornings 11 The Chignals with Mashbury Friends Group 12 Jigsaw Lending Library 12 Carpet Bowls Club 13 Cricket Club 13 Croquet Club 14 Gardening Club 15 Wine Discovery Group 16 St Nicholas Church 17 Chignal Chapel 18 Pig & Whistle 19 Three Elms 20 Local Services/Useful information Bus/Library/Royal Mail/Refuse Collection 21 Shops/Milk/Oil/Broadband/Mobile Phones 21 Doctors Surgeries 22 Emergency numbers 23 Contacts & Notes B/C Emergency Meeting Points

02 WELCOME TO THE CHIGNALS

Welcome to your new home and community! This booklet is designed to give you a simple guide to our Parish activities. We invite you to join village life and trust that these activities will tempt you to come and get involved in some of what is on offer, as well as giving you some useful information.

Although our villages are spread over a 5+ mile radius there is much going on and all the Clubs and Associations would be delighted to welcome you to join in.

It is emphasised that no advertising revenue has changed hands and that the information given below is by no means exhaustive. An attempt has been made to gather a range and variety of useful and relevant information but any suggestions/additions would be welcomed. Look out for ‘Chignal News’, the bi-monthly newsletter and check out the website www.essexinfo.net/thechignals for further information.

We also welcome any ideas for new activities in the villages, so if you have any thoughts about running or suggesting activities please come along to a Parish Council meeting or talk to anyone in the village about starting up something new.

03 Chignal Parish Council

The Parish Council meets every two months in the Village Hall, (on the second Monday) and considers planning applications and any other matters referred to it by local residents, City Council, Essex County Council and by Central Government. Council meetings are open to the public and there is an opportunity for members of the public to raise concerns and ask questions. The Annual Parish Meeting is held each March when the floor is given to local clubs and groups to report on their activities. All meetings are advertised on the Parish Council notice boards and the Chignal website. Residents can bring to the attention of the Parish Council anything that concerns them, by speaking to a Parish Councillor or contacting the Clerk, Mrs Janet Mills. If matters raised are not the responsibility of the Council, the Clerk can bring them to the attention of the proper authority.

The Parish Council has a wide alerts on community safety issues. range of powers related to local matters: G Monitoring the performance of local public services, such as local G Managing community amenities bus services, public rights of way, and services, such as the playing roads, drainage, signposts, field, community orchard, notice community policing, domestic boards, phone box, village website refuse collection, litter picking, and newsletter and providing email mobile library, etc.

04 Parish Councillors:- 2016 G Championing community Mr Christopher Anstey interests and supporting local 01245 441406 groups and village events. [email protected] Responsibilities: Chairman Parish Plan Committee G Liaising with local private Ms Lynn Ballard – Chairman businesses whose operations may 01245 440880 impact on the Parish, such as [email protected] gravel extraction, waste disposal, Responsibilities: Tree Warden; Chairman Employment Committee; telecommunications, power supply Secretary, Orchard Committee and agriculture. Mr Malcolm Feltwell 01245 441070 Engaging in the Chelmsford [email protected] G Responsibilties: Brittons Hall landfill Local Plan and supporting commu - site Liaison: Highways Issues; nity led plans, such as the Chignal Chairman, Orchard Committee Villages Design Statement and The Mr Steve Middleditch Chignals Parish Plan. 01245 440569 [email protected] Responsibilities: Community Safety issues; Broadband Liaison G Securing external funding to support a wide range of community Ms Linda Nelson – Vice Chairman projects, such as the establishment 01245 442625 [email protected] of the community orchard and Responsibilities: Editor, Chignal providing small grants to local News & website; Footpaths & Bridleways issues; Chairman Budget organisations, for example, part Committee funding tree work in St Nicholas Mr Martyn Towns Churchyard. 01245 440189 [email protected] Responsibilities: Village Hall Liaison; Contact: The Parish Clerk Playing Field; Notice Boards Mrs Janet Mills, 13 Witham Road, Black Notley, Braintree CM77 8LR Parish Clerk Email : [email protected] Mrs Janet Mills Tel: 01376 741899 01376 741899 www.essexinfo.net/thechignals/parish [email protected] -council/parish-council-members

05 Your City & County Councillors

Essex County Council, the local government body covering Essex, is responsible for mat - ters 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 including housing, local Playing Field planning, refuse collection, street cleaning, leisure The Playing Field (owned by the services, organising elections Parish Council), adjacent to the and maintaining the electoral Village Hall in Chignal St James, roll. Each type of council in Essex, including Parish is available for hire. Councils, is independent of each other, although the Contact Martyn Towns different tiers of local govern - Tel: 01245 440189 ment work together in partner - Email : [email protected] ships to deliver services.

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

Chelmsford City Councillor Cllr Nicolette Chambers 01245 456719 nicolette.chambers @chelmsford.gov.uk

06 The Chignals & Mashbury Village Hall

The Chignals & Mashbury Village many subsequent modifications, Hall is owned by an independent has been demolished and the new Charitable Trust and run by a hall is due to open in early 2017 management committee made up for regular use by many Clubs of volunteer residents. The hall is and Societies. The hall is available currently being rebuilt having been to all for hire. awarded a significant sum from a successful Community Fund For Hall bookings contact application. The former hall, an ex- Cherry Scott Army hut erected in 1952 and with Te l: 01245 441241

Front elevation of the new village hall

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 In addition, it provides information published on the website. about the activities of local clubs and groups which include the The local clubs, groups, Carpet Bowls Club, the Gardening St Nicholas Church, the United Club, the Jubilee Orchard, the Reformed Church, the Jubilee Wine Discovery Group and the Orchard and the Village Hall all Women’s Institute. There is have pages on the main site. community news, helpful advice and information about village activities based at the Orchard, the Village Hall, St Nicholas Church Articles of interest for both the and the United Reformed Church. newsletter and website are It is free of charge and is delivered welcome. to all the households in the Chignals and Mashbury. The editor can be contacted by email Linda Nelson, Ivy Cottage, Chignal Smealey, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 4TA Email: [email protected] Mobile: 07769 918276

08 The Chignals & Mashbury Jubilee Community Orchard

The Community Orchard in Chignal The orchard was funded through St James, near to the Village Hall, the Lafarge-Tarmac Landfill opposite the Playing Field, was Communities Fund with support created in the spring of 2013 for from Edible Essex and the the enjoyment of local people in Woodland Trust. It is managed by the Chignals and Mashbury and Chignal Parish Council with a team for visitors to our villages. It’s a of volunteers who maintain the delightful place to sit, relax or have orchard and organise a wide range a picnic at any time. There are over of exciting community events 70 fruit trees, mostly old varieties throughout the year. of apples, pears and plums origi - nating from Essex and Hertford - To join the growing band of shire plus quinces and a mulberry. ‘Orchard Friends’ and find out To increase its value for wildlife, more, see ‘Chignal News’ and the native fruit bearing shrubs have Chignal website: been planted around the edges www.essexinfo.net/thechignals and a wildflower meadow sown to augment existing plants such as Email: chignal.mashburyjubileeor - Scabious, Knapweed, Bee Orchid [email protected] and Cowslip.

09 Community Agents Essex

Community Agents Essex is a Contact: Jo Pike county-wide network of agents Email: [email protected] and volunteers who support older Te l: 07540 720609 people and their informal carers www.communityagentsessex.org to find and develop independent uk/Joanne Pike . living solutions from within their local community.

Chignals & Mashbury Women’s Institute

On the third Thursday of the month, in the afternoon we have a ‘Knit & Knatter’ group to knit squares for blankets for charity, We hold our Meetings on the first also tiny hats, jackets and shawls Thursday of each month at 2pm for for the neo natal department at the 2.30pm in the Village Hall, local Hospital, or even ‘teddies for (temporarily at the United Reformed trauma’. Some members bring Church during 2016 until the new along their craft items and share Village Hall is available.) We have a their skills with other members. variety of interesting speakers each For the non knitters there is always month but in the summer we have a game of Scrabble. Visitors are a garden meeting held at one of always welcome. the members’ gardens and an annual lunch in the spring. We are Contact: Janet Campen. President. a very friendly group with 21 Te l: 01245 440223 members. We arrange outings or Mobile: 07811 462834 join other Clubs for ‘Days Out’. Email: [email protected]

10 Chignal Coffee Morning

A warm welcome is extended to Venue: Chignals & Mashbury residents of all ages to join neigh - Village Hall (temporarily at Chignal bours for a chat over tea/coffee Smealey United Reformed Church and a selection of cake and until the Village Hall has been rebuilt) biscuits at this informal event Time: 1st Wednesday of every month 10am to noon Contact: Sarah Scott Price: £1 donation Te l: 01245 443497

The Chignals with Mashbury Friends Group

We are a small group of residents We realise that you may already who are pleased to be able to help have a kindly relative or friend other residents (whether new to the helping you in some way, however neighbourhood or not) in a variety if you feel that we might be of of different ways. Over the years assistance, please do not hesitate we have proved that a friendly face (leaving a message if needed) by can do much to help a person phoning in the first instance:- whatever their needs may be. This may be introducing them to Contact: Helen Towns village activities, clubs, like minded Te l: 01245 440241 people, or something more practical e.g. companionship, someone to talk to, light shopping etc.

11 The Chignals with Mashbury Community Jigsaw Puzzle Lending Library

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

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.

Currently our membership is 21 Formed over 25 years ago the Club and new members are warmly meets every Tuesday & Thursday welcomed. All equipment is evening 7.30 -10pm at the Village supplied so come along to try Hall. Apart from our own enjoyable your hand and have a cup of tea. domestic games we play in the Essex League and also Friendlies Contact: Gordon on 01245 231406 against the local villages. or Yvonne on 01245 440189.

12 Chignal Cricket Club

Chignal Cricket Club, based in the ence welcome. If you'd like to learn village, plays in the T Rippon Mid more about the club, please visit Essex League, with matches taking our website www.chignal.co.uk. place every Saturday throughout the season, which runs from May Email: [email protected] until September. We are always on the lookout for new players, with all Or give club secretary Matt Porter ages, abilities and levels of experi - a call on 07842 116801.

wanted to start our own croquet club in Chignal. So, starting in April each year and finishing in October, we meet on the first Sunday in the month at the village playing field at 10.30am – weather permitting! We take our own refreshments (wine Croquet Club and picnic not out of the question!) and normally finish early afternoon. The croquet club was formed after two villagers joined in a Village All adults are welcome, so if this is games tournament just before the something you would like to do official Olympic Games in 2012. please phone Lee Bailey on 07917 They had such fun that they 718567 for further information.

13 Chignals & Mashbury Gardening Club

Are you faced with creating a starting at 7.30pm on the 3rd garden from scratch, putting your Wednesday of the month from own stamp on an established September to November and garden or tackling an overgrown January to April. Garden visits are patch? Help and inspiration is at a great way to get ideas for your hand: come and meet your new own plot and run from May to July. neighbours and pick their brains We welcome non-members on on what grows well locally and these trips as well so please join how to deal with unwanted pests us – you don’t need to have any and plant diseases. Many mem - gardening knowledge to enjoy bers are old hands at creating these beautiful gardens. imaginative gardens and growing fruit and vegetables and all of us For more information, see the share a common love for plants ‘Chignal News’ and the website and our local countryside. We’re a www.essexinfo.net/thechignals friendly bunch and welcome newcomers: why not come along Contact: Graham Andrews for a free taster to try out one of (Chairman) on 01245 442625 our talks or garden visits. or Lynn Ballard (Secretary) on 01245 440880 Our gardening talks are held at the Email: gardening.chignalsmash Village Hall in Chignal St James, [email protected]

14 Chignal Wine Discovery Group

As the name implies one of the We meet once a month on the objects of this group is to discover second Friday of each month and new wines and hear about other usually have a presentation from aspects such as their production. an external speaker such as a wine The group was formed in 2003 merchant, although sometimes and has grown from fairly small the presentation is by one of the beginnings to the present where members. In July we hold a it now has around 40 members. barbecue and in December there is a highly popular Christmas meal.

The group does not profess to be experts and we try to make our evenings enjoyable and sociable occasions. We are always pleased to hear from potential members if anyone is interested in joining.

Contact: Norman Smith on 01245 440339 or Dave Thomas on 01245 442474.

15 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 about 10 people, but more people 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. the benefits of that. You are part of the Parish of St Nicholas with We are one of a group with five St James in the Chignals with other churches. At our churches in Mashbury and are welcome to the Leighs we have a Funday club be part of our community. every week for children and we have a monthly Family service at You have a right to be christened, , and Little married and buried in our beautiful Leighs. St Andrews Church is also church of St Nicholas, which is a just up the road and their website hidden gem and always open. is www.st-andrewschurch.co.uk.

We are in Chignal Smealey CM1 If you want to know more, do get in 4TA – go to the Pig and Whistle touch with one of us. and keep going straight on for

16 Revd Caroline Brown Alison Bates Linda Nelson Priest in charge Administrator Church Secretary [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 01245 364081 07957 228467 01245 442625

Chignal Chapel Coffee Morning on the third Wednesday in each month from 10.30am to noon. A friendly welcome awaits you all at either of these. We have no Sunday School at present but children are also very welcome. Special services for Christmas, Harvest Thanksgiving and Church Anniversary. Chignal Chapel (United Reformed Church) has been a place of Contact: Malcolm Hindmarsh worship for over 170 years. (It was (Local Leader) formerly a Congregational Chapel). or Irene Hindmarsh (Secretary) We meet for Sunday Service at on 01245442198 for further details. 10.45am. We have a monthly Our postcode is CM1 4TE.

17 The Pig & Whistle Opening Times: Monday - Closed (Bank Holiday The Pig & Whistle is Chelmsford's Mondays 12noon to 5pm) premier cosy country dining Tuesday to Saturday: experience serving lunch light 12noon –3pm , 6pm – 11pm bites, sun terrace dining, evening Sunday: 12noon –7pm specials menu and generous (Regular carvery sittings start at Sunday carvery. 12:30pm and 4pm) Experience our warm, relaxed and cosy twitter.com/Pig_AndWhistle welcome in the facebook.com/PigWhistleChelms Chelmsford country - ford side. Hospitality and home cooked instagram.com/pigwhistlechelms food six days a week. ford Brendan

Woodhall Road, Chignal Smealey, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 4SZ 01245 443 186 [email protected]

18 The Three Elms

We are a traditional and CAMRA award winning village pub, supply - ing a warm and friendly atmos - phere for the partaking of beverage sustenance and ‘banter’. We are situated 1 mile from our big sign on Chignal Road. Real Ale and Cider festivals. We also have an original bar billiard We supply freshly cooked, home - table, dart board and we compete made food, a large range of in the Essex Petanque League. traditional ciders and 4 ever chang - Please see our website for more ing ‘Real Ales’. details The Three Elms, Mashbury Road, We have live music Chignal St James CM1 4TZ. nights, special menu nights, 01245 443151 fundraising quizzes and events and www.the-three-elms.com

19 Useful information.

Bus Service Library

The service operates on Tuesday North Melbourne Library and Thursday through Chignal St Dickens Place, (opposite Morrisons) James and Fridays and Saturdays Copperfield Road, Chelmsford through Chignal Smealey, all at CM1 4UU. about 10am. All buses terminate at Railway Street, Chelmsford with Tues, Fri, & Sat. 9am – 5pm returns at 1pm (Lodges 01245 231262 for the latest Tel: 01245 442292 timetable) Also – Witham Mobile Library Royal Mail arrives at The Green, Chignal St James every other Friday Deliveries usually late morning. 12noon – 12.15pm

Post boxes and collection times – Tel: 01245 492758 for details there are rural post boxes in the or www.essex.gov.uk/libaries wall at Stevens Farm, Chignal St for visiting dates James, by St Nicholas Church in Chignal Smealey and at Ash Rise Recycling and bin also in Smealey – normally collections collected around 4.30 – 5pm Mon. – Fri. and approx. 8am on Satur - Thursdays – phone 01245 615800 days. ( Additional local post boxes or www.chelmsford.gov.uk/recy - are situated outside Bethel Chapel cling for what goes out when! in Chignal Road and in Copperfield Fly tipping – phone Chelmsford Road en route to Morrisons.) City Council 01245 606606 and ask for ‘fly tipping’.

20 Useful information.

Milk rounds www.oil-club.co.uk and log in to join the Good Easter & Milk and More – 3 times a week on heating oil club. For LPG try Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday. www.lgpessex.co.uk www.milkandmore.co.uk Tel: 0345 6063606 Doctors’ surgeries

Drainage, Septic Tank – 01245 360253 maintenance and emptying Melbourne House – 01245 354370

There are several local companies – 01245 421205 providing this service – see phone books or ask a neighbour for a Dickens Place – 01245 442628 recommendation. (e.g. Roe Environment Ltd Tennyson House – 01245 260459 01621 740704 www.roeenv.co.uk) Broadband & Mobile Local Shops pones. For both the service providers 1. Supermarket – Morrisons signal strengths are currently very is in Dickens Place, Newlands variable throughout the parish and Spring – also has a Pharmacy. mostly poor – before committing to Open 7am to 9pm Mon – Sat a new service consult a neighbour. & 10am to 4pm on Sunday.

Oil and LPG supplies 2. Walthambury Stores in Great Waltham – also has a Post Office For competitive quotations com - Counter. bined ordering saves money. See Open Mon – Sat 7am to 9pm. if your neighbour is a member of a Sun 8am to 12.30pm. club. For Oil you can consider

21 Emergency numbers

Anglian Water Police

08457 145145 Always dial 999 in an emergency.

UK Power Networks To report a non-emergency crime you can: 0800 1699970 • do it online service Environment Agency www.essex.police.uk/do-it-online (Floodline) • Call the non-emergency number 08459881188 101 or alternatively 01245 491491

Gas • Call in at a police station

National Grid Emergency Sevices • Use the minicom service on 0800 111999 01245 452828. The minicom service is a typewriter de - NHS Non Emergencey vice that allows people certified deaf or with hearing or speech problems to make contact. 111 There are also other offences that Chelmsford City Council may be committed - (unnecessary obstruction, criminal damage etc) 01245 606606 speak to your local Neighbourhood (out of hours 07836 256688) Policing Team to discuss any such issues. Essex County Council (Highways) Chelmsford Police Team members for the Chignals are CURRENTLY: Can be contacted online www.essexhighways.org/transport Inspector: Andy Sawyer, - and-roads.aspx Sergeants: Philip Morley or tel 03456 03763 and Perry Land to report either pothole or surface water damage.

Additions or amendments to either: Sandra Bailey 07909 564905 [email protected] or Nigel Bevitt-Smith 01245 440020 [email protected]

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