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Delivered homes and businesses APRIL 2021 Hello and a warm welcome to the April issue of My Village News.

This year in particular, has to be one of the most anticipated spring times, after the lock down and the cold dark days, we are all looking forward to the times when we can go that bit further, visit family and friends, enjoy the spring weather and gardens. BeWilderwood in Bickley on the A49 has waited in the wings to open after they started work early 2020 and soon will be open, you can read all about his exciting venture on our doorstep on page 30

David Hayns has kindly sent us another interesting read, on Canals Worth Exploring. With that in mind we telephoned cousin Garry who has a narrow boat moored at the Tattenhall marina, to select a photograph from the many he has taken over the years while cruising on the Jacaranda for our front page this month.

Martin & Janet Blow from Plant Hunters have once again provided us with gardening delights. They are hoping their fairs will go ahead this year, and so are we.

See you when we are out and about Ann & John.

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BeWILDerwood, the Curious Treehouse Adventure, and Cheshire’s most anticipated outdoor adventure park have announced they are opening this April!

Tickets for BeWILDerwood’s second park will be on sale from 12pm on the 4th of March, ahead of its opening with a bang and a sparkle on the 12th of April 2021. The unique woodland adventure park is located next to the historic Cholmondeley Castle, in South Cheshire.

After a year spent indoors, families can get outside and get back to nature with a fun-filled active day out at BeWILDerwood. Think of the biggest wonky wooden play structures and treehouses you can imagine, high up in the trees. A massive, muddled maze to get lost in, wobbly zip wires and giant slippery slides. All located in an enchanted woodland.

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Please mention ‘My Village News’ when responding to an advertisement in this magazine. 31 AdvertisingAPRIL 2021Feature moneytalks This month I wanted to look at the wider benefits of financial planning advice, particularly for women, who despite the fact they are saving more than ever before towards their financial futures, still face more of a shortfall in their retirement income than men. (2) Financial advice is more important than ever. Not When I first started out in the financial services only have changes in pensions and financial industry, its fair to say that as a women in finance, regulation placed more responsibility for planning I was definitely in the minority. Even now, over 30 “ years later, its not unusual for me to walk into a retirement income into the hands of individuals, but the coronavirus pandemic has also reminded seminar and be surrounded by a sea of suit us all of how unforeseen events can rock the wearing male faces, although the number of foundations of what we had thought was a stable women now working in my industry is financial footing. reassuringly higher. I do think that the financial The financial benefits of taking advice are well services industry has believed the rhetoric that documented and research undertaken by the Women generally lack confidence and take less International Longevity Centre UK (ILC) showed risk then their male counterparts, but my that those who take advice are on average experience is that this misses the point entirely, £47706 better off in retirement than those who Women do of course take plenty of risks, but these don’t (1). are controlled risks and for me, in any aspect of financial planning this is exactly as it should be Building on this study, the ILC has also undertaken whether you are male or female. research this year that shows financial advice could be an important factor in promoting mental And yet, many women still face a precarious health and wellbeing. In other words, peace of position in later life, due to gaps in employment, mind being amongst the non financial benefits of caring for children and/or elderly parents, and of advice, may well be at least as important as the course the gender pay gap, whilst narrowing is more easily visible financial ones. Certainly the still a cause for concern. feedback I receive from my own clients would very And so my call to action, please do pick up the much support this view. phone, me and my team are here to help you take Despite the these benefits however, there remains and keep control of your financial future, on a significant advice gap” with fewer than one in 01948 840738, as ever without obligation. six people taking advice, which stems partly from a lack of awareness of how and where to find it, 11ILC, What it’s worth – Revisiting the value of and some, particularly women, concerned that financial advice, November 2019, based on doing so would result in a “loss of control” with 2014/2016 calculations and receiving professional decisions being taken out of their hands. financial advice between 2001 and 2006 resulted Whatever the reasons for not taking advice, it is in a boost to wealth (in pensions and financial clear that identifying long term goals and assets) of £47,706 in 2014/16. establishing a financial structure to achieve them, 2 Scottish Widows Women in Retirement Report results in greater emotional wellbeing. 2019

Carolyn Ling Financial Planning Ltd is an Appointed Representative of and represents only St. James’s Place Wealth Management plc (which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority) for the purpose of advising solely on the Group’s wealth management products and services, more details of which are set out on the Group’s website at www.sjp.co.uk/products.

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Based locally on the Shropshire/Cheshire border, where I have lived for most of my life, I work closely with my clients and their families to fully understand their financial aspirations, hopes and concerns. Our business has quality and service at it’s core and I would like to invite readers to find out for themselves my personal approach to financial planning. It is always the result of intelligent effort

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When I was warden at the Beeston Outdoor Education Centre during the 1970s, one of the favourite walks for school parties who were staying at the Centre took in the stretch of the Chester Canal between Bunbury Locks and Beeston Brook. There was so much history to explore, including the two staircase locks and old stables at Bunbury; the former water mill and wharf at Tilstone Fearnall; and Thomas Telford’s cast iron lock at Beeston. The stables at Bunbury, still in use as boat workshops, were one of three sets which served the busy canal between Ellesmere Port and Wolverhampton, stabling which provided changes of horses in a similar manner to the posting stops on the old turnpike roads. Tilstone Fearnall had been a corn mill. Alongside the mill building, now a private residence but operating as a Scout activity centre in the 1970s, can be seen the barest remains of the once busy wharf to which grain would have been brought by narrow boat, to be shipped out again as fl our or animal meal. The enormous former mill pond, running beside the canal, is very overgrown although it now provides a catchment for the canal overfl ow weir just above Tilstone Lock. At Beeston Brook there had originally been a system of two stone-built locks, with the canal on a slightly different alignment. These kept collapsing due to the fact that below them was a deep seam of running sand. Some readers may recall the former huge Hoveringham quarry further up the A.49, which exploited that same sand. James Brindley had been the original engineer for the canal, opened from Chester to Huxley in 1775 and extended to Nantwich in 1779, but it was Thomas Telford who was contracted by the canal company in 1828 to solve the running sand problem. His solution was to construct a giant cast-iron trough, pinning it far back into the banks. He had previously used cast iron in 1805, on a much more extensive scale, for his famous Ponytcysyllte aqueduct on the Llangollen Canal.

Fifty years on from my time at the Outdoor Education Centre, the Bunbury to Beeston stretch and the towpath of the Llangollen Canal, between Marbury and the junction with the Whitchurch arm, still provide two of my favourite walking routes, fi lled with interest at any season. The Chester Canal had been planned originally to run to Middlewich but was fi nally routed to Nantwich, with a branch from Barbridge to Middlewich opened eventually in the 1820s. In 1795 another canal had been proposed, to link the Chester Canal at Newton, near Tattenhall, with Whitchurch. This proposal failed to achieve the necessary Act of Parliament, perhaps because it would have run through the Bolesworth Estate, close to Bolesworth Castle itself. The more roundabout link with Whitchurch came in 1805 with the opening of a new canal, leaving the Chester Canal at Hurleston to reach Llangollen. This new canal had a double purpose. As well as providing a valuable navigation, for transporting such commodities as limestone, Welsh slate, granite, and iron from the Ruabon foundries, it served as an open aqueduct to bring water from the Horseshoe Falls, on the River Dee at Llangollen, down to the water works at Hurleston.

Call 01829 720509 or email [email protected] 58 to place your advertisement APRIL 2021 Although originally there was an agreement, between the canal company and the River Dee Company, to return to the Dee at Chester the water taken from it at Llangollen, only about ten per cent of the water actually made it back to the river! An important wharf was developed at Grindley Brook, to serve Whitchurch, Malpas and the surrounding areas. In 1808 a separate arm was cut, fi nally completed in 1811, to take boats right into Whitchurch itself. By the beginning of the second World War commercial traffi c on the canal had fallen away and eventually the Whitchurch arm was abandoned and largely fi lled in. In 1986 the Whitchurch Waterway Trust was formed, with the aim of re-opening the arm. This proved impracticable but the Trust, undaunted, still has plans to extend the present stub of the arm and to create a new boat basin nearer the town. Canals declined signifi cantly in commercial importance after the war and those such as the Chester and the Llangollen, both part of the Shropshire Union system, suffered from lack of maintenance. It was Chester born canal enthusiast Tom Rolt who in his book ‘Narrow Boat’ (1944) particularly helped to raise awareness among the general public of the unique asset that is our national canal network. In 1962 the British Waterways Board was established to manage the country’s inland waterways, transferring responsibilities in 2012 to the newly founded charity The Canal and River Trust. With the help of thousands of tireless volunteers, the Trust has made great strides in maintaining, upgrading and operating the canals. It is thanks to them and their predecessors that we can enjoy the two beautiful stretches passing through the My Village News area, bringing opportunities for so much pleasure, exercise and contemplation, whether we navigate them by boat or in our boots. Boats must observe a maximum speed limit of 4 mph and, in the words of boatman Jack quoted by Tom Rolt in ‘Narrow Boat’: ‘If no-one went faster than what I do, there’d be a sight less trouble in this world’! [email protected] CODDINGTON & ALDERSEY Coddington and District Parish Council: Please visit our website for all items such as Agendas, Minutes, Council Governance, Councillor contact details and other Parish related matters. www.coddingtonparishes.co.uk

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The Clutton community is raising funds for a defi brillator for Clutton and the Clutton C of E Primary School and we need your help. Clutton is a remote location and getting urgent medical help is an issue. To donate please go to www.justgiving. com/crowdfunding/clutton-defi brillator-appeal or send a cheque payable to Coddington and District Parish Council to Defi b Appeal, Clutton C of E School, Broxton Road, Clutton, Cheshire, CH3 9ER

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SPURSTOW Spurstow Parish Council now have a website www.spurstow-pc.gov.uk Please visit us for all items such as Agendas, Minutes of Parish Meetings, Council Governance, Councillor contact details and other parish related matters. BUNBURY Bunbury Website For more news about what is happening in Bunbury please visit www.bunburyvillage.info. This site is run by volunteers and is intended as a resource for visitors and anyone living in the village or surrounding area. Information includes regular events in the Pavilion and Village Hall, the latest Parish Council news and the annual village day. You can send requests to post news but we do not publish opinion pieces just useful information.

TIVERTON & TARPORLEY Monarchy Interest Group; CMA Cheshire Group. Meets quarterly near Tarporley with talks of related interest. Contact Sec, Charles, on 01829 732046 or [email protected]

CREWE BY FARNDON Crewe by Farndon Family and Community Methodist Church continue to hold services in our COVID secure building at 4.30 every Sunday including Sunday School. Our services over Easter are Maundy Thursday 1 April prayer vigil 7pm led by Martin Woodhall, Easter Garden making outside for children 10:30 am on Good Friday with a message from Martin. Our family Easter celebration will be Sunday 4th April at 4.30pm, everyone welcome. Our regular youth church will restart Friday 9th April, guidance permitting, with guitar lessons, music, fun and snacks for anyone of school age, contact us on [email protected] for details of services, youth church and [email protected] if you wish to access our relationship breakdown support. Butterfl ies new parent support group meets Thursday mornings. Adam Meredith Lay Leader Crewe by Farndon Family & Community Methodist Church CH3 6PH 07812 432205 www.crewebyfarndonmethodistchapel.org

TATTENHALL West Cheshire Rural u3a April meeting In April James Taylor will give a talk on Brilliant British Humour in the Forgotten Art of the Picture Postcard. Artist-drawn postcards were the most popular art form from the Edwardian era to the outbreak of World War II. They entertained, inspired, instructed, motivated, persuaded and lifted-up the spirits. Our talks currently take place on Zoom. If you know of anyone who would like to join the U3A and listen to these talks online, they should contact Hilary Scarratt, WCRU3A membership secretary

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1st Holt Brownies We are a friendly group keen to welcome new members aged 7 to 10 years. We meet Wednesday during term time from 6.30-8.00pm at Holt CP School Club Room (next to School Reception), Chapel Street, Holt. For more information contact Rachel Smith on 01829 270939 or email rachelsmith07@ talktalk.net. In line with the Government advice now suspended Holt Local History Society We have been pleased to welcome our speakers by Zoom. The Society, formed in 1992 has continued to offer speakers for our lecture season which runs from September to April. We are pleased to announce our 2021 Programme to our membership of 70. Annual subscription is £10 and £4 for students. April 'Emma Hamilton' by Will Meredith. We would like to invite those interested to join our Zoom sessions Contact [email protected] Sue Payne Chair HLHS

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Farndon Community Club Due to Covid-19 restrictions, Farndon Community Club has had to close for indoor events and activities. At this point we don’t know how things might change going forward. However, as soon as the rules allow and we can open safely again we look forward to welcoming you back. Please keep an eye on the Club website, www.farndoncommunityclub.com, and Facebook for information about our re-opening. For the future, which we hope will be bright, if you want to make any enquiries about booking the club for a party or other function, if you have any other questions about the club, if you are interested in supporting our team of volunteers, or if you have any ideas about what you would like us to do, then do please get in touch. Our phone number (answerphone) is 01829 270151 email: [email protected].’

We are pleased to announce that the 100 Club for the Village Surgeries Equipment Fund (Farndon & Tattenhall) are organizing an additional draw for cash prizes. The main draw is November 2021 however, renew your number(s) before 26 April 2021 and you will be entered for both draws. We are a community charity (since 1985) organising equipment purchases for the Doctor’s surgeries in the villages of Farndon and Tattenhall. The equipment sourced is over and above the equipment provided by the National Health Service and used for the benefi t and comfort of all their patients. To purchase or renew your number(s), please email Helen on: [email protected] or call/text: 0780 304 5024 We did so well last year despite the pandemic with 99 numbers sold – let’s make this year even more successful. Good luck!

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PECKFORTON & BEESTON

Peckforton and Beeston Village Room - Stone House Lane, Peckforton CW6 9UH. Private hire our beautiful Village Room. Available for half or full days with a fully equipped kitchen, spacious garden and ample parking. The perfect space for parties, exhibitions, group meetings, exercise classes and more. Message for info [email protected] For further pictures follow us on Instagram @peckfortonvillage

NO MANS HEATH & TUSHINGHAM In line with government guidelines and Church of England policy all social events at St Chad's church Tushingham are cancelled. Weddings and Funerals can take place under restrictions as to numbers in attendance, please contact either of the church wardens Andew Dawson on 01948 820305 or Peter Moore Dutton 01948 664292 if you need any further help. SHOCKLACH Shocklach Gardening Group In line with Government advice, our meetings are suspended until further notice and many of our members will be self- isolating. Let’s take the positives and enjoy the chance to spend more time in our gardens and the therapeutic benefi ts that offers. Stay well. Information: Wendy Gilpin 01829 250413

BROWN KNOWL Brown Knowl Methodist Church Minister - Rev. Rob Weir Due to the ongoing threat from Covid-19, the Chapel remains closed for worship. For up-to-date information, please phone or see our website, details below. Keep safe and take care! Contact: General Info: 01244 535231, or see our website. www.brownknowlmethodist.com

BICKERTON BULKELEY RIDLEY.

Bickerton Village Hall Long Lane Bickerton Cheshire SY14 8AU. For any updates in the next few weeks go to www.bickertonvillagehall.com The Bulkeley and Ridley Parish Council website is now fully functioning. It contains all the latest accounts, minutes of meetings and other relevant information. Bulkeley and Ridley Parish Council have a new Facebook Page. Please visit and ‘Like us’ at: https://www.facebook.com/ bulkeleyandridleyparishcouncil You may access the website through www.bulkeleyandridleypc.org.uk. Your feed back would be appreciated via the email address given on the website.

62 Village News APRIL 2021 MALPAS Malpas Parish Council has received a number of complaints regarding vehicles parked with the engines running on Old Hall Street (near the McCarthy Stone development) and at Oathills (near the Bishop Heber High School). The Council wishes to communicate, via local publications, that it is illegal for vehicles to park with the engines running, and harmful particularly to those with respiratory problems. Malpas High Street Church: We are sorry, but due to government guidelines we still remain closed for worship and availability to groups. Our Ministers can be contacted on the following numbers - Rev’d Rob Weir on 01948 663936 or Rev’d David Hamblin on 01270 625789, should you wish to speak them. Chess Malpas & Friends online chess teams continue to fl ourish. We have 4 teams, with 4 in each team, in the the 4NCL, two in Division 2, one on Division 4 and one in the bottom Division, Division 7. We have two teams, with 6 in each team, in the 5Counties League. This league has 3 Divisions and we have teams in the top two Divisions. The second team is currently top of Division 2 with fi ve wins out of fi ve. Both these leagues play in Tuesdays. On Thursdays we have 4 teams of 3 in the Welsh League. We also play in a quick-play league. I also organise the Oswestry A and Oswestry B teams in the Shropshire League. Most of these leagues are coming to the end of the season. I hope to run a Cheshire & North Wales side again, in the English Counties Online League, like I did last summer. If anyone wants to play or learn about chess, either over-the-board or online chess, please contact me, Charles Higgie, [email protected] or Charles Lowick Higgie on Facebook. WHITCHURCH WALKERS During the pandemic, our Whitchurch Walkers group has managed to adapt and is very much thriving. As soon as regulations relaxed, we set up a programme of Small Group Walks which was hugely successful. From the beginning of January, we suggested the idea of a “buddy system”, whereby, should anyone like to walk with another person (following current guidelines), they are able to contact another like-minded walker from our group. Any group member wishing to take up this opportunity is able to contact Peter Stockbridge So, where do we stand now? We are very much hoping to resume our small group walks as soon as restrictions ease up, hopefully from March 29th. Please keep checking our website Our 2021 Walking Festival: We are planning to hold a modifi ed Walking Festival this year. It will depend on the government guidelines at the time, but we are assuming that we will be allowed to have groups of up to six people on walks. As soon as our “Small Group Walks” programme restarts, we shall inform our members by e-mail. If you would like to join the walks, why not join the group? Membership costs just £5 per year. Please do not forget to follow the Countryside Code! For more details and to check for any changes, please visit www. whitchurchwalkers.co.uk Check out the Whitchurch Walkers Facebook page, email [email protected] or ring Malcolm on 07746 687242, Peter on 07808 862286 or Baz on 07977 463049

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