The Upper Wylye Valley Team Parish News

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'Growing in the Love of God'

1979 to 2015

Our vision is to be open, welcoming, growing and inclusive churches, living within the love of God, and sharing God's love and life with others. http://upperwylyevalleyteam.com SOUTH WEST WILTSHIRE CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION UPPER WYLYE VALLEY BRANCH

It is with regret that the Plant Sale previously advertised for the 9th May 2015 has been CANCELLED, due to circumstances beyond the control of the branch.

Please contact Dennis Trudgett, 01985 840212, if you require any information about the branch.

Codford Gardening Club are holding a Plant sale and Coffee Morning at Ashton Gifford House on Saturday May 30th from 10am to 12 noon. £1.50 admission which gives you your first cup of coffee/tea and cake!

Signed from A36.

Christian Aid Week is the single biggest act of Christian witness in Britain and Ireland.

For thousands of people throughout the country, it’s a way of answering Jesus’s call to help people in need, and showing the community just how much good the church is doing in the world.

2015 WYLYE VA LLE Y C A L E NDA R Many thanks to everyone who supported Hope and Homes for Children (registered charity no.

1089490) by purchasing copies of the 2015 Wylye Valley Calendar.

Sales of the 2015 calendars have raised a total of £3,292 and all of this money will support the vital work of the charity in transforming the lives of children in Central and Eastern Europe and in Africa, ensuring that they have the chance to grow up in the love of a family.

Delivered free to homes in Boyton, Codford, Corton, Heytesbury, Knook, Norton Bavant, Sherrington, Sutton Veny, Tytherington and Upton Lovell

F R O M T H E UR E G I S T E R S Funerals Our sympathy and love to those who mourn the passing of Anita Davenport at Boyton and Salisbury on 17th March Trudy Jeffries, Thanksgiving service at Codford St Mary on 10th April Tilna Ann Alder at Codford St Mary on 17th April May they rest in the peace and light of Christ Please contact the Ministry Team to make arrangements for Baptisms,Weddings, Funerals, Confirmation preparation or Service of Prayer and Dedication after a Civil Marriage.

The clergy will officiate at any crematorium service.

M I N I S T RY T E A M L E T T E R From Diana Hammond 8 Tytherington Road, Heytesbury.

We are almost halfway through the year and what a busy one it’s been. Since the departure of John and Clare in January, so many things have happened. It was mentioned that we should take the opportunity during the vacancy to grow as a Benefice and indeed many positive things have happened. Much hard work was put into producing a Profile and the advert for our new Priest in Charge and we owe grateful thanks for those who worked to produce such splendid documents.

Our Lent Groups were, in the main, very well attended and we all benefitted from learning things about the Bible that we didn’t know. We were certainly stretched in our discussions. Our House Groups continue to flourish.

Compline Services run by our Family Service Group on the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week were extremely well attended, as were the series of Evensong Services during Lent.

John and Clare had always had Lent Lunches in the Rectory during Lent and as I was reluctant to discontinue these, with the help of Robin and Judi Hungerford we held a simple lunch each Friday in Lent, in the Hall at St John’s Hospital. My thanks go to all the people who laid up tables,

cooked soup and bread and produced cheese on each of these Fridays. It would have been impossible without them.

We raised the amazing sum of £438.00 for the Stepping Stones School for disabled children in Trowbridge.

On Good Friday we were richly blessed with 23 children attending our children’s activities which included making hot cross buns to be enjoyed after the other activities, such as the making of Easter Gardens and footsteps in green and red paint on the way to the cross. We continued in the Church, telling again the story of Christ’s passion.

We have so much in our lives to give thanks for. For the fellowship & love that abides in this Benefice as we wait for a new Priest in Charge to come and for our growth together to continue.

We can be sure of one thing.

The Lord knows who he or she is and it is up to us to be aware and recognise them and indeed make them welcome.

In His Good Time.

With many Blessings Diana PRAYER GROUP We meet weekly. If you have any prayer requests, please call Anne on 840339.

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T EAM D IARY Please let Anne know of any social dates you have so these can be included, and it avoids clashing with other dates and events.We have no ITEMS FROM SOME OF OUR villages; please do send your events in. This magazine is delivered door to door in all of our ten villages.

T: 840339 or E:revannebennettshaw@btinternet.com MAY Sat 4th Annual Codford ANZAC Badge Cleaning, RV Codford village hall 8.45 am 10th-16th Christian Aid week Tues 12th Team Council at St Peter’s Wed 13th Coffee Morning at St John’s Wed 13th Starquest Astronomy Club at Sutton Veny Village hall 7.30pm Sat 16th Concert by The Phoenix Consort in Heytesbury Church pm Friday/Saturday/Sunday 29th-31st Vintage Nostalgia Stockton JUNE Wed 10th Coffee Morning St John’s JULY Sat 4th 2.30pm Boyton & Corton Fete at Corton Wed 8th Coffee Morning St John’s Sat 11th Heytesbury Spectacular 12-4pm at the school.

Sat 18th Sutton Veny Flower Show OCTOBER Mon 5th Men’s Breakfast NOVEMBER Fri 6th Heytesbury Bonfire and Fireworks 6.30pm Mon 9th Cathedral Choir St Peter’s Sat 28th Christmas Fayre Heytesbury DID I MISS SOMETHING? See http:// upperwylyevalleyteam.com/par ishnews.html for News of the Donkey and Easter Chicks at Codford, Easter Experience at Sutton Veny, and Heytesbury flowers.

B L E T C H L E Y PA R K – H O M E O F T H E C O D E B R E A K E R S Bletchley Park housed the codebreaking operation during World War 2 and is the birthplace of modern computing. It has global significance as many historians estimate that the Codebreakers’ efforts helped shorten the war by two years, saving countless lives.

At its peak, about ten thousand people worked at Bletchley Park and its associated outstations. The exact number is not known, even today. They tackled the complex task of intercepting, deciphering, analysing and distributing the intelligence derived from enemy radio signals. All the while shrouded in the highest levels of secrecy.

Bought by the British Government in 1938, by 1945 Bletchley Park had developed into a vast and complex global signals intelligence factory with its nucleus formed by a small community of cryptanalysts, such as Alan Turing, Bill Tutte and Gordon Welchman.

The German Enigma machine used rotors to scramble messages into unintelligible cypher text, which the German military believed to be impenetrable.

Although work had been undertaken before the war in Poland and France to break Enigma, by 1939 the Germans were changing the settings daily. The first British wartime breaks into the daily-changing Enigma code took place at Bletchley Park in January 1940.

The enormity of this achievement can only be appreciated by the following fact: the standard 3 rotor Enigma was capable of being set to approximately 159 million, million, million combinations …… changed daily! The German Navy Enigma machine had 4 rotors, which had the Codebreakers stumped until the end of 1942.

Even more complicated than Enigma was the Lorenz cypher machine, used by Hitler himself, the High Command and German Army Field Marshals. Bill Tutte, a Cambridge chemistry graduate, deduced through mathematical analysis how the

Lorenz machine worked without ever having seen one. From 1942 onwards, intercepted Lorenz messages were punched into perforated teleprinter tape and distributed to the relevant parties by teleprinter and dispatch riders. By 1943, however, the Germans had introduced further complications that meant that brain power alone no longer sufficed.

This led to the development of Colossus, the world’s first practical electronic digital and information processing machine – the forerunner of the modern computer.

It would eventually use 2,500 vacuum tubes. The first Colossus arrived at Bletchley in January 1944. It could read paper tape at 5,000 characters per second, its wheels travelling at 30 miles per hour.

Work that had taken weeks now took hours.

The contributions of Bletchley Park’s Codebreakers to the outcome of the war are now globally recognised. They include: • Location of German U Boats in Battle of the Atlantic • Providing early warning of German air attacks on British cities • Production of intelligence to support the Mediterranean and North African campaigns • Contribution to the success of Operation Overlord and D-Day

• Helping to identify new weapons including V1, V2, jet aircraft, atomic research and new U-boats • Breaking Japanese codes Soon after becoming PM in 1940, Winston Churchill visited Bletchley Park and quickly understood the vital nature of the work being carried out. His prescience was summed up in a hastily written note he handed to his Aide de Camp. It simply said ‘Give them what they want!’

A visit to Bletchley Park makes a wonderful day out for all ages. The main exhibits have been sympathetically restored and explained. The individual huts are time capsules showing the simple, even spartan, conditions in which these men and women worked. Allow 3-4 hours to do justice to this important piece of Britain’s history – it will send a tingle up your spine!

Denis Johnson, Raymond Hall, Heytesbury.

STARQUEST ASTRONOMY CLUB We have over 20 members but we still need more please. We have a diverse membership and want to attract the wider community. You do not need any equipment before you join, as our members are more than happy to share.

Our next meeting in Sutton Veny Village Hall will be on 13th May at 7.30pm.

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DIGIT’S DIARY (or the Dog Blog) for Spring 2015 We are beginning to come out of hibernation as Spring arrives and we dogs are spending more time outside. Well, Turbo is, and I watch him racing round from the warmth and comfort of my bed behind the French windows. I have decided to review recent months for you in the hope that it will be more interesting than listening to the Guvnor’s faux pas or his whinges about being so hard done by. After all, he’s not the only one with aches and pains, and ‘stuff’ happens to other people too; most of all, he is lucky to have a wife who takes such a personal interest in everything he does – or doesn’t do - and who ensures he has specific tasks to get on with rather than allowing his life to waft about like a weathervane. I mean, even the Church of England now has women bishops who, he mused the other day, have completely re-written the rules of chess by being able to move any way they want.

He seems to have forgotten the essential message of the Nun’s Prayer – ‘Keep me from the fatal habit of thinking I must say something on every subject and on every occasion…’ and got frightfully miffed the other day when someone disagreed with

him. He forgets that shouting at the television or the radio at Mr Clegg, Mr Miliband, Mr Balls or Mr Farage is unlikely to attract a riposte, but outside the home other people are entitled to hold a different view – amazingly.

The cricket World Cup is over and once again the Guvnor has learned an important lesson in British-ness. He conscientiously listened to defeat after defeat and bravely took in the dreadful news that our team didn’t even reach the quarter final stage.

He took on the chin the fact that we were being consistently beaten by people to whom we taught the game and resolutely boosted his morale by pointing out ‘that it is only the 50 over stuff we aren’t good at’.

He is looking forward to us winning in the West Indies to set us up for a cracking series against the Aussies for the Ashes in the summer. He forgets that with the final of The Voice, another disaster in Eastenders, a sacking in Holby City and many women (and men, to be politically correct) swooning over the naked torso of Ross Poldark, very few people know what he is talking about, or care for that matter.

Back to me - or Turbo to be precise; he

was married again this week. It is a rather old-fashioned thing to do, apparently, these days but the Guvnor and his wife hold rather traditional views on the matter and insisted he was introduced to Lulu formally, had a polite conversation, bought her flowers and took her home to tea to meet his Great Aunt Digit. The reality was quite different; it was love at first sight with the conversation limited to her asking ‘How’s Freddie (Freddie is Turbo’s father)?’ It must have meant something special because he said, ‘Yes, please’.

A N G L I N G N OT E S As I write this on the second of April I ought to be fishing on the river Usk. I had arranged with a friend that we would start our season today with a day of trout fishing.

Unfortunately the gales and rain in the early part of the week lifted river levels to the point where the river is completely unfishable. The overhead conditions today have been perfect, good cloud cover, a gentle breeze from the Southwest and occasional periods of light drizzle. I could not have wished for better conditions if only the river had been about half a metre lower; the fly, March Browns and Large Dark Olives would have hatched in droves and the trout would have risen with gusto!

Woe is me.

I attended a meeting of the Wessex River Keepers last week principally to talk about the swan control programme for the coming breeding season and to distribute the necessary forms, licenses, authorities and reports of action taken. These latter are submitted to DEFRA in July. This is the sixth year of operating a license and there are just signs that the large juvenile groups, which play a major part in the overgrazing of weed, are beginning to reduce in size on the Wylye although they remain much the same on the Avon. There has also been a considerable amount of movement of birds in recent years, particularly in the high flow

year of 2014; this confuses the picture.

The keepers are very concerned at the level of predation taking place on fish populations. Cormorants are present in very large numbers, Goosanders are increasing, having arrived relatively recently in the South and of course otters. We now have very healthy populations of otters on all of our rivers and the angling community have welcomed their return. They feed on what is easy; small fish such as bullheads and stone loach are easy prey as are the American Signal Crayfish. Eels were popular but there are so few these days that they do not seem to feature, we do not see remains on the river bank. They also seem to find large

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fish easy, salmon and large carp. The sight of large dead salmon on the bank with only a few bites eaten out of them causes some heat and for those running a commercial, stocked, fishery who have paid large sums of money, perhaps a £1000 or more for large carp, the sight of the same carp dead on the bank does not go down well. There have been stories of them trying to kill a swan and trying to take a carp as an angler was trying to land it!

A sparrow hawk has been raiding my bird feeders. I have not seen one in the garden for some considerable time but the remains of Blue Tits and Blackbirds tells its own story.

Robin Mulholland

TH E NEW P RI EST- I N- C HARGE UP DATE ON PROGRE SS The Team Council met on 9th March to adopt the Profile (a document summarising the rewards and challenges of life as P-in-C of the Upper Wylye Valley Team) and to approve the advertisement that will go in the Church Times on 20th and 27th March. Both will appear on the website shortly. Our recruitment plans are now set, the selection process decided, lists of applicants closed on 14th April and a board will assemble on 5th and 6th May to decide on the new incumbent. The Team Council elected Richard Southwell, Annabel Elliott, Caroline Barker-Bennett and David Shaw to sit on that board. We hope to be able to give the results of the Selection Board in the June edition of Parish News.

Meanwhile anyone who is interested in more details or knows of anyone who might be interested in the post, please go to the website www.upperwylyevalleyteam.com where all the Vacancy-related material is set out, together with a much wider view of life in this beautiful part of Wiltshire.

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PARISH NEWS PRODUCTION STEPS UP A GEAR The April edition of Parish News experimented with two new elements; one to do with presentation and the other regarding content. The publicity supporting the Centenary of the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915 was deemed so important the front page, for the first time in the history of the newsletter, was in colour and was considered to be thoroughly effective. The back page carried a new, and useful, piece of advertising – the Market Place; this comprises one or two liners that supplement our full-size, regular advertisers.

These improvements will, we hope, be replicated two or three times a year – in April, June and September.

Commensurate with these is the increase in articles and other items being received by the editorial team. We are greatly encouraged by this but it does mean that some items will necessarily be held over for a future edition, while others will appear on the website in an item we have called ‘Did I Miss Something?’

Contributors, readers and advertisers will be pleased to know that they receive ‘world-wide’ exposure as the Parish News and its ‘e’ addendum are placed each month on the Team website www.upperwylyevalleyteam.com David Shaw, Chairman PN Committee

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E A R LY E A S T E R AT M E S S Y C H U R C H As the next Messy Church was going to be so long after Easter we celebrated our ‘Loving Easter’ on 22nd March.

In our game we found a way to cross the chasm, and it was a big wooden cross, Then we started our activities and there was so much to do.

There was also a big wooden cross. We wrote our names on pink and white hearts then stuck them on the cross. Then we made Easter cards with an invitation to the next Messy Church stuck in it. You should try it.

We sung Jesus love is very wonderful in our celebration time and all waved ribbons in the air and also did the actions. The story time was that we have good news to tell, that God’s love is for everybody. Then we had a celebration meal with Easter eggs!

Messy Church is at 4pm in Codford Village Hall on 26th April and 24th May. Till 6.

Come and join the fun. It really helps the team if you tell them you are coming, but still come if you forget to let them know.

Easter rock cakes which made us ask who moved the giant stone away from Jesus grave?

There were messy crosses reminding us that the cross is the answer to all the mess in the world and it was amazing to create coasters out of beads. They were also crosses but some people made heart shapes.

We made junk angels who were the messengers that told the good news that Jesus was risen. There were matchstick crosses to make - they were awesome – and we threaded beads on a bracelet. Each colour was a different event in the story.

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THE ENGAGE PROJECT Currently over 2/3rds of patients in hospital wards are over 65 years old. Levels of anxiety and depression in this group of people are significantly higher than in any other age category. Many people find it difficult being away from their own safe and familiar environments as well as friends and family. Being in hospital can be isolating and lonely. Patients can lose a sense of identity when entering somewhere unfamiliar such as a hospital.

The Engage Project was started by the Clinical Psychology department of Salisbury Hospital in 2011 to address the above issues.

Our aim was to improve the amount of

cognitive and social stimulation that people receive in order to help decrease levels of anxiety and depression, build self-esteem, increase confidence and recreate a sense of identity.

Our volunteers are specially trained to help our patients to overcome all of these issues. The programme currently takes place on 14 wards and is delivered by volunteers during one-to-one sessions or in groups. Interventions are designed and adapted to meet each person’s individual wishes, needs and level of functioning.

Activities include games, newspaper discussion, reminiscence, social interaction and cognitive stimulation.

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For further information, please contact: Tora Mathias-Jones, Psychology Co-ordinator Email: Engage@salisbury.nhs.uk www.engageprogramme.org.uk

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Wednesday 6TH May – 7.30 pm THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (12A) Biography Eddie Redmayne won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking and Felicity Jones deserved one for her role. A moving, compelling film which everyone has heard about and will want to see.

Wednesday 3rd June – 7.30 pm KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (15) James - Bond type fantasy Based upon the acclaimed comic book Kingsman: The Secret Service tells the story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the Agency’s ultra-competitive training programme. Some excellent action-film direction and some very camp but fun performances from Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Caine.

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Wednesday 1st July – 7.30 pm TESTAMENT OF YOUTH (12A) Drama Based on the memoir by Vera Brittain and starring Alicia Viander with a superb supporting cast, this is a moving study of the educational and emotional awakening of a young Englishwomen in the years leading up to the First World War. Wednesday 29th July – 7.30 pm ******* (Note extra date) THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG) Comedy All the old actors and characters from the first film (plus Richard Gear) are there and it is nice to be in their company for another two hours. India looks ravishing: the colour and music are lovely.

All tickets £6.00 available in advance at the Post Office or at the door on the night (if not sold in advance).

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H E Y T E S B U RY YEL L OW D U C K R AC E 1st Anthony Lowes - Duck No 499 2nd Howard-Vyse - Duck No 527 3rd Lilly (Hedgehogs) - Duck No 12 Booby Prize - Gerring - Duck No 48 CORPOR AT E D U C K R AC E Winner Marcia Girard - Duck No 10

£959 was raised from the yellow duck race and goes to Heytesbury Church and £600 raised from the red duck race which will go to the Wylye Valley Disabled Children's Riding Fund.

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This promises to be a very interesting talk.

PLEASE NOTE we have NO meeting in JUNE. Our June meeting is now on 1st JULY, and is our Annual Garden Party at Mrs Copland-Griffiths’ house, Little Stowe in Mill Street. Visitors always welcome.

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T HE C HU R C HYA R D Heytesbury churchyard is benefitting from the pruning of the Irish yews, to encourage new growth, and allow more light into the surrounding space. Many of the yews have been sponsored by individuals, as the PCC is unable to afford the total cost of the work. We are grateful to those individuals, and invite anyone else who would like to dedicate a tree in memory of a loved one to let Tina Sitwell (churchwarden) know.

The Wednesday morning working party has begun again, and anyone who would like to join, please let Peter Andrews know. In this way we hope to keep our churchyard looking attractive to all who tread through it.

ST JO HN ’ S S O C IA L C L U B Our next coffee morning will be on Wednesday 13th May at 10.30am.

Team Lent Lunches held in our Hall We would like to say a very big “thank you” to all the helpers. We enjoyed the friendship at the Lent lunches, for lovely soups, bread and cheese. The grand total raised was £438.55 sent to the charity Stepping Stones, in Trowbridge.

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S H E R R I N G TO N How amazing to be writing in the garden!

It is the wrong time of the day for birdsong, save for one or two wood pigeon and the sound of something small in the fir tree behind me. I really must learn to identify more birds by sound other than the usual obvious ones. The landscape, for so long painted in the muted shades of Winter is now touched by the yellows and gold of Spring. The pale smile of primroses is everywhere, daffodils are at the peak of their splendour, gardens are spiked with the brilliance of forsythia, and kingcups light the water’s edge. Hedgerows are crowded with enamelled stars of celandine though there are other colours too and violets, from white to deep purple, cluster amongst leaves in the hedge bottom.

Hawthorn’s tight buds are ready to open and overall, trees are misted with the first hints of green. So good to see young beech planted along the track where the old trees stood. It must give a feeling of near immortality to plant trees.

In the village we have the usual round of triumphs, troubles and disasters that make up the natural world. A robin built in our robin box; three beautiful little eggs were laid then a fourth but since then, nothing. Something must have befallen the little female. Sitting in the garden we saw the moment when a pair of blue tits de-

cided on their nest box. First one lighted on the top and after a lot of fussing popped inside. Another bird appeared and there was a lot of going in and out. Today the nesting material was going in; the pair seem to be settled.

On the cress bed a female mallard was guiding her flotilla of eleven ducklings and today another family of the same number appeared. Ducklings never cease to amaze, though tiny and recently hatched they dart everywhere non-stop, impossible not to be enchanted. The pair of mute swans is having mixed fortunes. The female has settled down to incubate her eggs but the male, once really aggressive in defence of his territory (I named him Attila the Swun) got into trouble in the fish ladder and a leg was injured. We watch with anxiety for signs of recovery, it may be happening slowly. He now uses it to manoeuvre, can tuck it up onto his back and moves powerfully in the water but only using the other leg. He does not try to walk on land because it obviously cannot take his weight. A problem may arise when cygnets are hatched and the parent birds need to take them down to the river to feed. Perhaps by then Attila will have made a recovery, fingers crossed.

We are feeding him corn in the hope that this will give him strength to recover.

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would seem. The Fonthill Estate now has warning signs on certain tracks in the Great Ridge and on some farmland to warn riders and walkers too. The holes are difficult to spot where there is thick grass.

We saw a first pair of house martins over the village today, no swallows or swifts as yet.

Bright, shining brasses and daffodils seem to complement each other and the little church looked beautiful on Easter Day. Another enhancement was an Easter Garden created by six children of the village under the guidance of Jane Shaw. It did have a look of the Garden of Eden as amongst the flowers and Crosses on the hill a number of plasticine creatures appeared, a crocodile and one or two snakes (alright, I know the Garden of Eden had only one).

We were summoned to church by the bell, thanks to William Pelly who repaired the bell rope by climbing into the loft above the organ. Thanks too to Wendy Jobbins who played the organ. It was a service we all enjoyed. During the service four small tortoiseshell butterflies emerged. They were taken outside and released into the warm sunshine and I imagine they have been enjoying the Spring weather ever since.

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S U T TO N V E N Y A S P EC I A L WAL K IN L E N T On Sat 14 March a motley group of walkers and dogs enjoyed the triple experience of an unusual circular walk (returning from Tytherington over private land, accessed by kind permission of Christopher & Sally Prendergast), stimulating conversation en route, and finding a number of hidden Geocaches along the way (visit www.geocaching.com to find out more). About half the gathering adjourned to The Woolpack afterwards & declared the event a great success. All that fun, and some money was raised for the church too!

Richard Jackman

The Resting Post Bed & Breakfast Angus & Felicity McLellan 67 High Street Heytesbury BA12 0ED Tel: 01985 840204 www.therestingpost.co.uk A Grade II Listed Period House offering friendly, en suite rooms.

RE -D ESIG N AT IO N O F SUT TO N V EN Y F L OW ER SHOW C U PS The annual flower show for Sutton Veny, Bishopstrow, Norton Bavant and Tytherington has over 45 cups associated with it.

Most of the trophies can be won by any entrant, but several cups are listed as Closed.

Closed cups can only be won by someone living in one of the four villages. Unfortunately, we have had several occasions where a trophy has been won by someone who does not have an address in one of the four villages and, the trophy was not awarded.

To encourage wider participation and also to secure the future of the show for a further 50 years, the current flower show committee would like to list all of the current trophies as Open for anyone to win. However, as the trophies have been donated to the show, it is not within our remit to re-designate them. Therefore we would like to ask those that donated the following trophies if they object to the change of designation.

Many of these trophies have been with the show for some time; therefore we are not entirely sure how to contact those who donated the following trophies.

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1. The Pat Lugg Memorial Trophy donated by Mrs M Lugg 2. The Roger Metcalfe Memorial Trophy donated by Mrs Marshall 3. The Franklin Challenge Cup donated by Mrs Franklin 4. The Eels Challenge Cup donated by Air Commodore H Eels 5. The Moonraker Challenge Shield donated by Mr and Mrs G. Howe 6. The Molly Coward Trophy donated by Miss B Dale Should anyone have any contact details relating to any of the above cups, please get in touch with the Chair of the SVFS on 01985 840382.

P.S., this year’s show is on the 18th July.

Don’t miss it!

Yours sincerely Julia Tuff, Chair of SVFS On behalf of the SVFS committee

UPPER WYLYE VALLEY TEAM UPPER WYLYE VALLEY OFFICE Wed/Thurs upperwylyevalleyteam@gmail.com 840204

C H U R C H S E RV I C E S I N M AY 3rd 5th Sunday of Easter

10th 6th Sunday of Easter (Rogation)

C HURCH

TIME

SERVI CE

Sutton Veny Upton Lovell Codford St. Mary Boyton Heytesbury

09.30am 09.30am 10.00am 11.00am 11.00am

Holy Communion (BCP) Holy Communion Family Service Parish Communion Parish Communion

Codford St. Mary Norton Bavant Sutton Veny Vill Hall Knook Sherrington Upton Lovell

09.30am 09.30am 10.00am 11.00am 11.00am 06.00pm

Parish Communion Holy Communion (BCP) Family Service Parish Communion Matins Choir Rogation Service/Evensong )

Thurs 14th Ascension Day Boyton 17th 7th Sunday of Easter

24th PENTECOST

31st TRINITY SUNDAY

Choir

07.30pm Parish Communion

Choir

Boyton Tytherington Heytesbury Codford St. Peter Sutton Veny

08.00am 08.00am 10.00am 11.00am 11.00am

Holy Communion (BCP) Holy Communion (BCP) Family Service Parish Communion Matins (BCP)

Choir

Heytesbury Codford St. Peter Norton Bavant Upton Lovell Codford Vill Hall

08.00am 09.30am 09.30am 11.00am 04.00pm

Holy Communion (BCP) Parish Communion Morning Prayer Choir Parish Communion Messy Church

Heytesbury

10.00am TEAM SERVICE

Choir

WEEKDAY SERVICES every week We welcome you to share in prayers for the Church, the Nation, the World, the Sick, and for others as well as ourselves.

Tuesdays Wednesdays Wednesdays Thursdays Fridays

Heytesbury Codford St Peter Codford St Peter Upton Lovell Sutton Veny

HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN, HEYTESBURY CHAPEL SERVICES Sundays Wednesdays

10.30am Eucharist with hymns 10.00am Holy Communion(1662)

08.00am 08.30am 09.00am 08.00am 08.00am

Morning Prayer Morning Prayer Holy Communion Morning Prayer Morning Prayer

ST GEORGE’S CATHOLIC CHURCH Warminster MASSES Saturday 6.00pm Sunday 8.00am and 10am

ASSOCIATE PRIESTS The Revd Anne Bennett-Shaw 840339 revannebennettshaw@btinternet.com The Revd Ian Duff 850291 duffgian@gmail.com The Revd Diana Hammond (day off Sat.) 841185 roger213hammond@btinternet.com The Revd Jane Shaw (day off Monday) 850141 shawjane2005@gmail.com The Revd Adrian Pollard 846536 ade.pollard@gmail.com LICENSED LAY MINISTER Katherine Venning venning.mk@hotmail.com

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CHURCHWARDENS Boyton Susanna Maitland Robert Mayall Codford St Mary Jane Collins Bridget Lorimer Codford St Peter Sue Poolman Anthony Bainbridge Heytesbury Tina Sitwell Knook Michael Pottow Norton Bavant Edward Moore John Acworth Sherrington Betty & Nigel Lewis Sutton Veny John Stidolph Annabel Elliot Tytherington Caroline Lester-Card Upton Lovell Richard Southwell Daphne Pullen

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LAY PASTORAL ASSISTANTS Codford Henry Collins Jane Collins Carola Puddy Norton Bavant Didee Acworth Heytesbury: Anne Hawkins Penny Atkin-Berry Roger Hammond Alison Tebbs Sutton Veny Judy Cooper Upton Lovell Sue Bray Belinda Southwell

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Ann Goodman

PARISH NEWS Editor Anne Bennett-Shaw revannebennettshaw@btinternet.com Chairman David Shaw

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Visitors are welcome to our services.

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ATTACHED PRIESTS Fr Raymond Hayne Fr Malcolm Ferrier 01985 212329

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Area code 01985 unless otherwise stated Please telephone 840339 to change or include a contact number MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT Dr Andrew Murrison MP 01225358584 SOUTH WEST WILTS CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION UWV Branch Dennis Trudgett 840212 WILTSHIRE UNITARY COUNCILLORS Andrew Davis 217431 Christopher Newbury 01373 822508 Fleur de Rhe-Philipe 213193 COMMUNITY POLICE Beat Manager: PC Victoria Howick victoria.howick@wiltshire.pnn.police.uk PCSO: elizabeth.harmsworth@wiltshire.pnn.police.uk Community Police (non-emergency) 101 PARISH COUNCILS Boyton/Corton Chair: Caroline Wheatley-Hubbard 850208 Codford Chair: Colin Beagley 850952 Clerk: Louis Hoareau 851002 Heytesbury Chair: Ann Perry 841474 Clerk: Catherine Reade 841087 Sutton Veny Chair: Stephen Oxlade 841026 Clerk: Melissa Atyeo 840821 Upton Lovell Chair: Steve Boxall 850851 Clerk: Nicola Duke 01373 864127 clerk@uptonlovell.org.uk ROYAL BRITISH LEGION Codford Branch: Sir William Mahon 850586 Heytesbury Women's Sectn: Mrs Sincock 840730

HEYTESBURY, HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN Administrator 840441 NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH Codford Mike Davidson 850549 Corton John Rigby 850303 Heytesbury Peter Andrews 840517 Norton Bavant Gordon Evans 840559 Sherrington Nigel Lewis 850496 Sutton Veny Peter Strangeways 840403 PARENT AND TODDLER / PRE-SCHOOL GROUPS Codford Caterpillars Kim West 851030 Heytesbury Hedgehogs Annette Pulvertaft 840798 PRIMARY SCHOOLS Codford, Wylye Valley Head:Debi Downing 850461 Heytesbury Head: Carol Clough 840429 Sutton Veny Head: Rachael Brotherton 840428 www.suttonveny.wilts.sch.uk VILLAGE HALLS Codford www.codfordvhsc.co.uk Chair: Peter Smalley 850379 Bookings: Teresa Poolman 850160 Corton Fane Hall Bookings: Tina Kerr 850373 Sutton Veny Chair: Gay Woods 840057 Newsletter: Colin Baker 840033 Bookings: Mr & Mrs Trudgett 840212 Upton Lovell Bookings: Ros Coombs 851277

WOOLSTORE THEATRE Brenda Mears 850658 CODFORD GARDENING CLUB Karen Johnstone 850258 CODFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY Sir William Mahon 850586 Sally Thomson 850339 PARISH WEBSITES Team www.upperwylyevalleyteam.com Webmaster stephen.oxlade@btinternet.com Heytesbury www.heytesburyparish.co.uk Norton Bavant www.nortonbavant.co.uk Sutton Veny www.suttonveny.co.uk SPORTS CLUBS Badminton (Codford) Dominique Beagley 850952 Cricket (Heytesbury & Sutton Veny) Chair: Justin Wagstaff 840782 Secretary: Robert Robson Football (Codford) Jason Blandford 850159 Tennis (Codford) Chair: David Delius 850780 Secretary: Susanna Quarrelle 851149 STARQUEST Astronomy Club: Pete Lee 840093 SUTTON VENY FLOWER SHOW Chair: Julia Tuff 840382 www.suttonvenyflowershow.co.uk WOMEN'S INSTITUTE Sutton Veny President: Christine Hirst 840394 WI LITE Dympna Bell 840514

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