The Queens Jubilee Committee have now decided on the events for the Queens Diamond Jubilee Celebrations in Chideock. A large Marquee will be placed in the Clapps Mead Playing Field and will host events on Saturday 2nd, Sunday 3rd and Monday 4th June 2012. For more information on these events please go to the GROUPS heading at […]
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PLANT SALE IN THE CHURCHYARD Monday 7th May 09-30 to 11-30
The Geraniums, Petunias, Nicotinia, etc, and tomato and vegetable plants were all to immature to bring to the Easter Sale so another sale will be held on Bank Holiday Monday 7th May at 9-30 a.m. in The St. Giles Churchyard. This time we are hoping for better weather! Please come along and support the Bells Fund.
‘HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS OF CHIDEOCK AND THOSE WHO TRAVELLED THEM’ Tuesday 9th April
Yesteryear Chideock Have you ever wondered..? How roads and lanes gor their names? What the Main road was like before it was ‘trunked’? Which famous folk passed by on their holidays? Why Mr.Hore Belisha (of Belisha Beacon fame) was written to by Chideock Parish Council in 1936? When the excessive speed of heavy contractor lorries […]
STOP PRESS!! change of lighting time of the beacon!!! Monday 4th June
The National Trust have now advised that the ‘lighting of Thorncombe Beacon’ for the Jubilee celebrations will be at 10.00 p.m. and not 12.00 midnight as previously intimated. Therefore, we are now inviting people to join the torchlight procession at 9.00 p.m. and not 10-00 pm as previously indicated on posters and in news features. […]
CHIDEOCK PLAYERS ‘A SCHOOL REUNION” Friday 12th October
Chideock Players invite you to a Murder Mystery evening for “A School Reunion”. As ex pupils of the Alderman Woodrow Senior School you are asked to attend the ‘A’ Stream Reunion. To be in the Village Hall on Friday 12th October at 7.00pm and you are asked to wear your school uniform! Tickets are £10 […]