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and a warm welcome to Greatford in Lincolnshire
Greatford is a small village of about 100 houses located roughly equidistant between Stamford, Market Deeping and Bourne.
We hope visitors to the village enjoy their experience (and keep the village tidy!), and we hope visitors to this website find it helpful. The various sections of this site give more specific village information. This is an umbrella website which gives information for most of the activities in the village of Greatford and provides links to other local websites.
As previous visitors will know, this website is quite a change from the previous text based website. It is still, as they say, ‘under construction’ and will develop as the need arises.
Its main aim is to provide an independent local information service to the area and ensure that you have an opportunity to get involved with it. Contact the editor@greatford.info with suggestions for articles and updates. Thank you.
The website was last updated on September 27th 2009
This 'home' page will have events taking place in Greatford, and your information page (below) from the Towers & Spires.
see 'The Church' above left for church events around the area.
The Parish Council has its own website which can be accessed via the link on the left as can businesses and other local websites.
For other local village links:-
Click here for the Uffington website which has more about
local schools and here for the Tallington website.
The 7 local C.of E. churches can be viewed at
www.uffingtongroup.org.uk
West Deeping Parish Council also have a website here.
Articles from the October Towers & Spires
GREATFORD
Church Flowers: Diana White
Church Cleaning: Diana White and Sue Barker
Carlby & District WI: This WI has members attending from Carlby, Bourne, Thurlby, Wilsthorpe, Braceborough and Greatford. The next meeting will be at Carlby Village Hall on Tuesday 13th October 2009 at 7.30pm .The talk will be on ‘Wood Turning’ by Mr A Haslam. New members are always welcome. For further information please telephone 01778 590348.
The next quiz night at the Hare 'n' Hounds is Tuesday 13th October. This starts at 7.30 pm with a supper and then the quiz for £3.95 teams of four are welcome. We are also looking for quiz masters. We are now introducing an ale trail supper which will be on Friday 9th October and a wine and dine evening on Saturday 10th October as well as a friends and family sausage feast on Friday 13th November. All events require booking for any details please phone. We are now taking bookings for our Christmas parties and Christmas day for a menu and any more details please phone (01778) 560332.
Bellringing: Attempted peal on Saturday 17th October, and a quarter peal, date to be confirmed.
Flying the Flag .You can help to raise funds for the Village Hall by having the Union Jack or the Flag of St George flown in honour of any special event. Please contact the Churchwardens in the first instance.
Best Kept Village: Final judging in this year’s competition took place in August and although the Village scored well, gaining 147 of the possible 150 marks, in the fierce competition of the previous winners’ class, this was unfortunately not enough to secure another victory. The Parish Council is nevertheless grateful to everyone who worked hard to keep the village so neat and tidy. A copy of the mark sheet is available on the notice board and village website. As previously reported, the Parish Council is proposing to try to improve the appearance of the village by planting bulbs at suitable locations along the roadsides – any suggestions for possible sites should be passed to any of the Parish Councillors (George Aylett, Nigel Ashby, Barry Baker, Ibis Channell and Lois Webb) or Parish Clerk Martin Brebner.
Up-to-date information about the Village and the Parish Council is available on the Greatford website:
http// parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Greatford
CALLCONNECT & CALLCONNECT PLUS
Lincolnshire County Council has announced a bus service "CallConnect," serving Bourne and the surrounding villages (including the five mentioned above and now "CallConnect PLUS" for Uffington or Tallington!).
The service operates Monday to Saturday (07:00 to 19:00) in response to pre-booked requests (on a "dial-a-bus" basis), and will pick up and set down at designated locations in the villages and towns served (including providing access to Bourne and Market Deeping, and NOW Stamford). CallConnect does not usually operate on routes where local bus services are already in operation except at times when there are no buses.
Anyone can use the service for any purpose (eg shopping, medical appointments, work, training etc). Users need first to register details with the Booking Centre (by phone or internet), after which journeys can be booked, again with the Booking Centre. Bookings are subject to availability (on a first come first served basis) and can be booked up to seven days in advance; same day bookings need at least two hours notice.
Tickets are purchased from the driver, and fares vary depending on the length of journey. Concessionary bus passes (available to those over 60 and to disabled people) are valid on all CallConnect services, giving free travel to the pass holder after 09:30 on Mondays to Fridays and all day on Saturdays.
The Booking Centre (0845 234 3344 - local call rate) is open Monday to Friday (08:30 to 17:00) and Saturday (09:00 to 15:00); bookings may also be made at anytime via the website www.lincsinterconnect.com
The website contains further details.
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