Stakeholder update from North Somerset Council 16th April 2021
Friday 16 April 2021 Dear all Latest coronavirus data Recorded cases of coronavirus have continued to fall in North Somerset. 31 new cases have been identified in the latest seven-day period reported for North Somerset compared with 39 the previous week. Our case rate per 100,000 head of population has decreased to 14.4. This compares […]
20mph Speed Limit – Hill Lane and Cadbury Lane
The Speedwatch team have received reports of vehicles suspected of breaching the 20mph limit this week in Hill Lane, Cadbury Lane and Weston Drove. Residents are reminded that all tributary streets leading from the main 20mph section of the B3124 are covered by the 20mph restriction. As yet we are unsure if the speeding vehicles […]
Theft of dumper – 1st April 2021
On or about 1 April, during hours of darkness, my Thwaites 1 tonne dumper was stolen from my garden. The thieves cut through the barbed wire fence and drove the machine out across the fields, emerging onto the road by cutting through a padlocked chain securing a field gate. It might be coincidence, but some […]
Parking in Church Lane
We recognise that there is an ongoing problem with the lack of parking spaces in the village, but we must ask that people take greater care when parking in Church Lane. This morning, Easter Saturday, cars formed a chicane which we could only just get through. We quite often have deliveries of building materials, concrete […]
Parish Pump Online
Dear Parish Pump readers, One cannot begin an article on the future of the Parish Pump without first spending time congratulating Stu Redway on the herculean achievement which is the Parish Pump to-date. The positive impact the Parish Pump has on our community is of huge significance, binding us as one entity, giving us our […]
The Village Green
The Village Green: We are moving forward to the exciting phase! Having done a lot of the hard work on the “Green”, the time has come for the exciting phase! Here are some thoughts on how we will now develop a planting plan. The Village Green, the site and plant considerations: The site is mainly […]
Plant Sale
As you have probably seen from the Parish Pump, the hope is that we will be able to hold another self-service Plant Sale this year, on Saturday 22 May and Sunday 23 May 10.00am-5.00pm Obviously the success of the plant sale, is dependant on us, as members of the group providing the plants to sell. […]
Weston in Gordano Manor House
Strictly speaking, Weston has had three manor houses over the centuries. As long ago as the 12th century – about the same time as the earliest part of the parish church was built – there was a moated manorial settlement some 200m south east of the church. This was probably a timber structure, and little […]
Fatal accident at Weston-in-Gordano
Western Daily Press OCT. 19, 1888 Threshing machine explosion. One dead. At Mr Perkin’s farm Weston-in-Gordano, yesterday, during some steam threshing operations, the engine boiler burst. The driver William Lodge of Yatton, who was the owner of the threshing machine, was so seriously hurt that he died shortly after. A dog was also killed. The […]
Dedication of a Lychgate
Western Daily Press NOV. 30, 1897 Jubilee memorial is dedicated in Weston-in-Gordano The jubilee memorial in this parish, which look form of a new lychgate at the entrance to the churchyard, was solemnly dedicated on Friday evening by the Venerable the Archdeacon of Bath. The gate is a massive structure of oak, resting on a […]