West Suffolk Council is starting the annual canvass process to update the electoral register…
A Note from your Clerk – Annual Canvass to update Electoral Register
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Police Connect
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Early Summer Scene 2024
We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of The Wickhambrook Scene is now published. You can view the digital document by clicking the link hereOr by viewing the post on any of the local Facebook groups (Wickhambrook & Lidgate, Wickhambrook Community,...
Walk to Easter Wood and back
The whole walk is about 5 miles and will take 2 to 3 hours. Ordnance Survey map 210 Newmarket and Haverhill will provide reassurance. The route can be tackled any time of the year being mainly green lanes and field edge paths but the cross-field path can be sticky after rain
A note from your clerk – cradle swing back in use
With thanks to Cllr Mike Lavelle the basket swing at the children’s play park on the Recreation Ground is now back in use.
A note from your clerk – Please don’t use the basket swing at the Recreation Ground Playpark
Hello, I’ve just been told that there appears to be a loose bolt to the basket swing – Please don’t allow your children to play on this until further notice whilst we find and rectify the fault.
Mid Spring Scene 2024
The latest edition of The Scene is published with:
• great advice on the increase of ticket fraud and how to avoid it;
• advice on preparing your garden for the summer;
• about the Tennis Club and how to join;
• plus local news, walks, and news from the MSC, Parish Council, and WI
Clerk’s Newsletter – March 2024
You can read the March issue here…
Spring Scene 2024
We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of The Wickhambrook Scene is now published.
2023 Recorder Report for Wickhambrook
A look through 2023 in Wickhambrook
Register My Appliance
More than 40 million large appliances in use in UK homes are unlikely to be registered with the manufacturers, rendering them extremely hard to trace if a safety repair is ever needed.
FREE Cyber First Investigator training course
Calling all Suffolk High schools and parents of year 8 and 9 students. There are just a few spaces left on the FREE Cyber First Investigator training course on 23rd March in Ipswich.
A note from your clerk – Mobile Library Service in Wickhambrook
Did you know that the mobile library service visits every four weeks – There are two routes – one visiting the main village area…
A note from your clerk – Play equipment at Bury Road Pocket Park
Dear children – please don’t stand on the cradle swing – it is dangerous and damaging it and we may have to take it down until we have a replacement…
Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal
The Poppy appeal will be held again this year from Thursday 26th October to Sunday 12th November. Our collectors will be out again this year doing door to door collections…
Note from your clerk – Flood Recovery advice from your County Councillor
With an event on the scale of Storm Babet the immediate challenge is to record where the flooding has occurred and the extent of the impact, so we are asking for your support to encourage all affected residents to report significant flooding to individual properties using the Highways Reporting Tool, if they do not have access to the internet they should call the SCC customer service number: 0345 606 6171.
Autumn Scene 2023
We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of The Wickhambrook Scene is now published…
Walk to Cowlinge and back
Following this route and walking at gentle pace, from Wickhambrook to Cowlinge will take around 90 minutes. There are several options for the return journey…
A Note from your clerk – Thanks to our volunteers!
On Wednesday 4th October we were fortunate to have lovely clear dry weather, and cleared the skatepark of weeds, cutting back overgrowth at the back and edging the entrance paths…
A Kedington Hills Circuit
There used to be a newspaper cutting on display in the porch of Kedington church which read – ‘Sir, I note the correspondence regarding a proper Christian response to bats in the spire. As the incumbent of a typical Anglican parish, I can assure you that the only answer is to get the bats baptised and confirmed. In my experience, you will never see them again’. This has now been removed but the church is well worth a visit. This can be at the start or end of this 5.5 mile walk around the hills of Kedington area…
Sofa
We have a used but serviceable sofa to give away which will need to be collected from our house…
Wickhambrook Surgery Flu Clinics 2023
Flu Clinic dates, information and how to book your appointment…
Wickhambrook Scene – July 2023
We are pleased to announce that the July issue of The Wickhambrook Scene is now published.
Wickhambrook Farmers Market 9 July 2023
Wickhambrook Farmers Market MSC Hall Sunday 9th July 9.30am till 12.30pmI hope you like the new look market. Come support your farmers market we have some old and new stalls and Amanda and Ali back in the hall. There’s E&G butchery and farm shop with their...
Wickhambrook Scene – May 2023
We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of The Wickhambrook Scene is now published. You can view the digital document by clicking the link hereOr by viewing the post on any of the local Facebook groups (Wickhambrook & Lidgate, Wickhambrook Community,...
Stetchworth walk
The Devils Dyke is one of the best preserved Anglo-Saxon earthworks in England. Thought to have been built by the Saxons in the 6th and 7th centuries AD to keep those Britons at bay, the bank and ditch stretches for 7.5 miles between Reach and Wood Ditton…
Calling all children from Wickhambrook aged 0-16 yrs
The Wickhambrook Summer Fete committee have purchased some King Charles 111 Coronation Mugs – one free for each child between 0-16 yrs living in Wickhambrook…
A Note from your clerk – New Senior Wooden Goal End and Basketball Hoop
At its February meeting the parish council agreed to purchase a new Wooden Goal End and Basketball Hoop for the old MUGA space next to the Skate Park…
Beware of Scammers sending fake Emergency Text Alerts
Scammers are likely to use the the new Emergency Text Alert system to try and steal money and personal information from victims…
Stanstead Walk
This walk has the distinction of going through the area of the highest point in Suffolk. This is supposed to be in Stanstead Great Wood but this does not agree with the contours on the Explorer 196 Sudbury, Hadleigh and Dedham Vale Ordnance Survey map which show a higher point to the west. The circuit also takes you down part of the drive and through the grounds of Kentwell Hall. The distance is almost 7 miles…