 AGM & Village Hall Committee Meeting - Mon 19th April 7.20pm  Bring and Buy Sale for Haiti Disaster Relief Over £500 raised!! A massive thank you to everyone who helped organise this tremendous event ... thanks to all who baked cakes, cooked sausages, made cups of tea, donated raffle prizes and food and to all who came along. But most of all thank you to Linda for coming up with the idea and being the driving force behind it.  Next Quiz Night - Friday 19th March 7.30 for 8pm start. Please come along ... Quiz Night 14th November 2009 Thanks to Lisa, Mary (and others) for organising this. It was a fun evening and it raised £40 for the village Hall.   Burcombe Village Hall The newly decorated village hall is available for private hire at a very competitive rate. It is a great venue for private events, children's parties or any other special occasion. For more details please contact Sue on 742177 Polite request: When hiring the hall please can people not park in front of the cottages in School Row - Thank you. ------------------------------------------------------------------  Table Tennis in the Village Hall Burcombe Village Hall now has its very own table tennis table which is available for use by anyone in the village. It is an outdoor table which can be used either outdoors/indoors in the Summer or indoors only in the Winter. Simply contact Sue Combe at Manor Farm B&B for the village hall key. N.B. Only an adult can draw the key and children must supervised by an adult at all times. The hall is not available for table tennis on Thursday evenings. ------------------------------------------------------------------  Use this link to see the listings for Barford St Martin church services. You can also visit www.nadderfocus.com for more information. ------------------------------------------------------------------  Please can we remind all dog owners of the need to clean up after your dogs have performed their daily business ... especially if it is in front of someone's house or where children play! Furthermore it is very unpleasant for the folk who cut the village grass to have to stop and remove it. Not least it is an offence which attracts a significant fine! Please think about your fellow villagers ....   The Chalk Valley Neighbourhood Police Team is trying to raise its profile within the local community. It can be contacted by phone on 0845 408 7000 ext 747 442. If you have any concerns or wish to report anything suspicious give them a call!  www.wiltshire.gov.uk It was a matter of pride among English cartographers that they always did their own mapping and did not copy earlier maps. The cartographer, John Speed, mapped Wiltshire within a dozen miles of Salisbury in 1662. The village of Burcombe was on either side of what is now the A30. John Speed called the part to the south, Burcombe. Because he did not know the name of the north side, he simply wrote on the map, "Query". It so happens that if you look at any Wiltshire map made from then onwards until 1775, the word "Query" still appeared to the north of the road, even though English cartographers said that they never copied earlier maps made by other people, there are at least a dozen examples of this mistake. Thanks to our new 'Historical Correspondent' Will! |
