You will have seen the Speedwatch cameras placed at the zebra crossing on The Slade and on Nine Acres Lane during January and February. The latest data from these placements is now available. For further information and clearer graphs please visit charlbury-tc.gov.uk/community-speedwatch/
Lisa Wilkinson · Mon 24 Mar, 14:25 · Link
COVID VACCINATION CLINIC, TUESDAY 1 APRIL 2025
Eligible patients of Charlbury Medical Centre are invited to have their spring covid vaccination booster on 1st April at the Charlbury Football and Social Club.
Eligible patients are those who will be aged 75 and over by 17 June 2025 and people who are immunosuppressed and at risk of becoming very unwell if infected with covid.
If you are in this group and haven’t already booked an appointment please ring the practice, after 10:30 if possible on 01608 811 680.
Some of the patients visiting the clinic will be very elderly, some with limited mobility. Please try to park elsewhere, or walk if you are visiting the Co-op or the community centre during the morning of 1st April.
Thank you for your help and co-operation.
Charlbury Patient Participation Group · Mon 24 Mar, 12:00 · Link
The following planning applications have recently been lodged. Click on the address to see full details at the WODC website.
Mon 24 Mar, 06:15 · Link
Could you spare an occasional couple of hours at a weekend to help the museum? We are very keen to recruit more people to welcome visitors when we are open. We have a loyal band of volunteers who generously give their time as stewards but some are no longer able to help for personal reasons.
We always have two people on duty together so you would never be on your own. Visitor numbers vary but a quick look through our visitors book shows that as well as local residents, our visitors come from all over the world. On a busy day there can be a constant stream of people which makes the time pass quickly, while on quiet days you have a chance to browse through old photographs and explore some of the objects we hold.
We would love to hear from you if you are interested in joining us. Please email Sue Rangeley at sue.rangeley@btinternet.com and she will be happy to explain more of what is involved.
Our new season starts on Saturday 5th April. We are open on Saturday mornings and Sunday and Bank Holiday afternoons until the end of September.
After a short break to renovate our kitchen, The Bull is back open. Stop by for a pint in the pub, enjoy lunch or dinner in our dining room, or book a stay in one of our bedrooms. We can't wait to welcome you back.
Kamil Swiderek · Tue 18 Mar, 12:46 · Link
The date for this year's Garden Society Spring Show is fast approaching (12th April) so it's time to start thinking about the bulbs and flower arrangements you would like to exhibit!
Once again, we have made it easier for exhibitors, with no forms to fill in. Just turn up on the morning of the Show with your entries!
There will be art activities and a seed give-away for children, so do come and support this community event.
Please see the full schedule here:
Geneviève Hug · Mon 17 Mar, 09:00 · Link
The following planning applications have recently been lodged. Click on the address to see full details at the WODC website.
Mon 17 Mar, 06:15 · Link
It is likely that everyone with a home landline phone which uses the existing analogue network will be switched by their service provider to a digital landline phone service using the broadband network sometime during the period 2025-27. This is called the Digital Voice programme.
Offcom advise that BT has taken the decision to retire its analogue network by January 2027 and this means other providers that use BT’s network must follow the same timescale. Other companies with their own networks such as Virgin Media plan follow a similar timescale.
The Neighbourhood Watch organisation in co-operation with BT are running local information events for the public to spread awareness of the forthcoming change and to provide information about what it will mean for BT landline users. There is an event to be held in Chipping Norton Library, Goddards Lane, Chipping Norton OX7 5NP on Tuesday, 18 March from 10.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. There is no need to book a place and anyone is invited to drop in.
BT say that vulnerable customers will not start being switched until at least Autumn 2025 and will be given special attention. This includes people with no mobile phone signal, people with additional needs, people with healthcare pendants or alarms, elderly people and landline only customers (i.e. customers with no broadband service)
Generally the BT message is that “the landline is not going away – it is just being upgraded”.. There will be special arrangements for customers who do not have or do not want broadband. BT say that no-one will be left disconnected.
All Together In Charlbury (ATIC) has been in touch with Neighbourhood Watch and is aiming to obtain as much information as possible about what Digital Voice will mean for landline users in Charlbury, so that we can make it available as far as we can.
Meryl Smith · Sat 15 Mar, 13:39 · Link
Today the Playing Close is a well-kept, tranquil green space surrounded by trees in the centre of the town, mostly used for recreation. It has been an important part of Charlbury life for hundreds of years but was a very different place in the past. If you had visited in the 1800s you would have found a noisy place on which people had built hovels, dug sawpits, dumped dung heaps and traded animals. It sat on the edge of town with fields stretching away up what is now Wychwood Paddocks and beyond.
Many of the houses you see around the Playing Close today were already there but one was a working farm, others occupied by working craftsmen. The town lock-up was in one corner in a building that later housed the town’s fire engine. The British School was expanding along one side, offering a basic education to the poorer children of the town.
The museum’s exhibition this year explores its history, how the Close was gifted to the town in 1592, the stories of the houses which surround it, and the lives of the people who used it.
We re-open on Saturday 5th April at 10.30am. Our opening hours are
Saturdays 10.30-12.30am
Sundays & Bank Holidays 2.30-4.30pm.
We look forward to seeing you!
Some of CADS members will be performing alongside the Chipping Norton Operatic Society ( CHAOS) in their latest show “ Kipps “ the New Half a Sixpence Musical at the Chipping Norton Theatre, starting on Thursday 3rd April, Friday 4th and Saturday 5th April with 2 performances on the Saturday.
Kipps has some of the most memorable songs in it such as –
Half a sixpence
Look a live
Money to burn
A proper gentleman
If the rains got to fall
We'll Build a Palace / I Only Want a Little House
Pick out a simple tune
And of course “Flash Bang Wallop” along with many others you are in for a great toe tapping show.
Kipps is the Story of A Simple Soul, this musical tells the tale of the changing fortunes of Arthur Kipps, an orphan and draper's assistant at Shalford’s Bazaar in Folkestone, Kent at the turn of the twentieth century. Kipps is an easy-going working-class lad, who is happiest with his banjo. However, when he unexpectedly inherits a fortune from an estranged grandfather, he is suddenly propelled into high society. He catches the eye of Helen Walsingham and her money-grabbing family, who are desperate to restore their family fortune. His childhood sweetheart, Ann Pornick, is forced to watch helplessly as Helen attempts to transform Kipps into perfect husband material. Both young women undoubtedly love Kipps in their own ways but by the time he makes up his mind which one he wants, it may be too late. When he loses his money (thanks to the fraudulent behaviour of Helen’s brother, James (played by yours truly), Kipps is reminded of his roots and where his heart truly lies.
Here's a link to what's in store www.facebook.com/share/v/1653cPKZfn/
Don’t delay “Look a live” and experience the “Joy of the Theatre” with Kipps, Chitterlow and the rest of the CHAOS company by booking your tickets at the
Chipping Norton Theatre box office on 01608 642350
Or www.chippingnortontheatre.com/events/chaos-kipps-the-new-half-a-sixpence-musical#dates-and-times
Ticket prices £19.50, £17.50 matinee (all prices include booking fees)
See you all there and enjoy “A Little Touch of Happiness “
Tim Widdows · Fri 14 Mar, 10:59 · Link
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