ORGANISATIONS & MEETINGS USEFUL CONTACTS Meet at When Accident and Emergency Hospital: Child Health ClinicChurch Hall2nd Thursday Hospital, Heath Road, Ipswich 01473 712233 Community Hosp. Minor Injuries (01394) 458820 Welcome to 1:00–3:00pm Doctors and dentists can be contacted in Felixstowe (listed in Parent & Toddler Church HallThursdays Thompson’s Directory and Yellow Pages) 1:00–3:00pm Walton Surgery (01394) 278844 Kirton & Bell ringing Church (6 bells) Central Surgery (01394) 283197 Contact:: Loraine Beer448490 Howard House (01394) 282706 Falkenham Bowls Club Haven Health (01394) 670107 Police: Constabulary Force HQ 01473 613500 Short MatVillage HallTuesdays Village policeman 7:30pm Minicom 01473 611160 Outdoorbehind Village Hall Website www.suffolk.police.uk Summer only Parish Council Clerk: Colin Shaw 01394 448783 Deben Flower ClubChurch Hall2nd Tuesday [email protected] 7:45pmTransport: FootballKestrelsRecreation Ground Bus services run from Kirton (and some from Falkenham) to Felix- stowe, Woodbridge and Ipswich. Timetables are displayed on Kir- Training: (boys & girls) ton Green, the Post Office, and in Falkenham. Tues & Thurs evenings Felixstowe Area Community Transport Service (FACTS) runs a Matches:Saturday a.m. bus into Felixstowe for the disabled. Contact: (01394) 270339 Kirton UnitedRecreation Ground Train services go from Felixstowe via Trimley to Ipswich for con- Training:Thurs evenings nections to London and elsewhere. Matches:Sunday Schools: Kirton White HorseRecreation Ground County Primary School Headteacher: Peter Lamb (01394) 448313 Friends of Kirton Churchvarious events Felixstowe Academy www.felixstoweacademy.org/ Contact: John Parish448476 Contact: (01394) 282628 Gardeners Club Village Hall2nd Thursday Post Office: Trimley St Martin 7:30pmCitizen’s Advice Bureau: KAFPA (drama) Contact Maddy Rhodes448549 2-6 Orwell Road, Felixstowe IP11 7HD (01394) 275958 Ladies Keep Fit Church HallTuesdays Library: Suffolk County Library van calls in the villages on alter- 2:00–3:30pmnate Tuesday afternoons. See Village Diary. Recreation Ground, Alley Road, has a play area for children, bas- Exercise Class Village HallWednesdays ketball hoop and football pitches : Phil Barker (01394) 448493 9:30amPavilion bookings: John Beer (01394) 448490 Cowling Dance AcademyChurch HallFridays Church Hall bookings: Michael Sharpley (01394) 448238 7:30pmVillage Hall bookings : Vic Wilkinson 07961 594360 Mothersʼ Union Church Hall1st Wednesday Allotments are available for rent. 2:30pm Contact Mrs S Harvey, 29 Falkenham Road, Kirton. (01394) 448780 Kirton & Falkenham Review - the villages’ magazine This information has been prepared by the Church of Open Circle 18 Burnt House Lane2nd Friday Editor: Nick Claydon (01394) 448812 St Mary & St Martin, Kirton, and the Church of St 10am  [email protected] Ethelbert, Falkenham. We hope you find it useful and Tea Shop Church Hall2nd & 4th Wed that you will be able to join in the many activities our 3 Village Woodlands GrpChurchyard1st Saturday www.kirton-suffolk.info for the Village Diary, local community provides. Whist Drives Village Hallmost Mondays news, hall booking, events, Parish Council notes, history 7:30pmand local pictures. Details change, so check our website Womensʼ InstituteVillage Hall2nd Thursday Subscribe to The K&F Review for the latest local www.kirton-suffolk.info for the latest & Diary. 2pm information – only 50p/month or £6/year Please inform us of any errors or changes. Call 01394 448213 or email [email protected] Woodland Pals Preschool Mon/Tues/Thurs/Fri email: [email protected] Yoga Rec. PavilionWednesdays 9:30am Issue: 121121 Welcome! PLACES OF WORSHIP We wish you very warm welcome to the villages of Kirton Times of church services in Kirton & Falkenham are adver- and Falkenham and hope that you will find this Welcome tised inside and outside the respective churches, and in The brochure useful. Review. Kirton and Falkenham share the Parish Council, the school, the Village Hall, and Recreation Ground and, as Church of you will see from the lists, most of the organisations. Kirton!!St Mary & St Martin There are two Church of England churches and the Meth- Contact:Mrs Barbara Payne odist chapel. There is a considerable amount of shared  (01394) 448582 worship.  [email protected] Sunday Club meets 3rd Sunday morning in Kirton Church Hall This part of Suffolk is fairly isolated between the two rivers Deben and Orwell. We also seem to have a somewhat Falkenham St Ethelbert individual climate with relatively low rainfall. The ports of Contacts:Lorraine Beer  (01394) 448490 YOUNG PEOPLEʼS Ipswich and Felixstowe have developed enormously in the  [email protected] last decade as has the industrial estate on the historic air- ORGANISATIONS field at , mainly due to Adastral Park and to Rector Priest many other enterprises that have availed themselves of the Revʼd. Canon Geoffrey GrantRevd Helen Davy Meet at!When facilities offered by this area.  01473 659232  (01394) 270703 KAFY ClubPavilionThursdays7pm This is an expanding area but is also very ancient in origin,  [email protected][email protected] and we are justly proud of our very early connection with The Rectory,9 Roman Way the Christian faith. Romans are believed to have settled in FELIXSTOWE and around Falkenham but it is the Anglo Saxon era that IPSWICH IP10 0HYIP11 9NJ gives us the confirmed facts. The name Kirton comes from the Anglo-Saxon name of Readers Stephen HarveyEdna Collins Kirkatuna, meaning “the place of the church”. Kirton is Explorers mentioned in the Domesday Book, not just as having a  (01394) 448780  (01394) 282718 (14-18 yrs)Scout HutTuesdays7:15pm church, but also having a priest of its own. His name was  [email protected] Godric and to find such an entry is exceptional. We also 29 Falkenham Road  [email protected] know that there has been a place of Christian worship, Kirton17 Tylers Green Sea Scouts probably on the site of the present church, since the 7th IPSWICH IP10 0NPTrimley St Mary (10½-14½ yrs)Scout HutWednesdays7:00pm century. This does give us a great sense of continuity and FELIXSTOWE IP11 0XF we hope that you will join us in worship in our churches. Guides Methodist Kirton Methodist Church (10-14 yrs)Church HallThursdays7:15pm Falkenham also has an ancient history based on the min- Trimley St Martin Methodist Church ing of coprolite, and the river was used for its transport. Revd David Kemble Earlier the part of the known as Kings Fleet Trinity Manse, Tower Road Cub Scouts was where Edward III fitted out his fleet for his expedition FELIXSTOWE IP11 7PR (8-10½ yrs)Scout HutMondays6:30pm to Flanders in 1338. Parts of Falkenham church probably  Felixstowe (01394) 282023 date from this time, though it was extensively refurbished  [email protected] Brownies in the late 19th century. Local contact: Mrs Helen Robertson  (01394) 448395 (7-10 yrs)Church HallThursdays5:30pm There are many beautiful walks in this area, mostly well marked by signposts. Roman Catholic St Felix, Felixstowe Beavers Welcome again to this community! May your stay be a long (6-8 yrs)Scout HutTuesdays6:00pm and happy one. Free churchTrimley St Mary Other denominations have churches in Felixstowe, Walton, God bless you all. Contacts change so please turn up at a meeting if Woodbridge & Ipswich you would like more information or would like to offer help.