Parish Council Meeting – May 16
12th May 2016 7.30pm at Lyon Hall, Hodnet
12th May 2016 7.30pm at Lyon Hall, Hodnet
Sunday 17th April
Meet at the Lyon Hall, 2:15 for 2:30pm
One of the Hodnet Walks
Children welcome, also dogs on leads.
In case of bad weather please call Randall on 01952 540970 (or check this post) after 1:00pm on the day.
Friday 13th May
Wollerton Bowls Club at 7:30pm
Try your hand at Crown Green Bowls.
Come along and have a fun evening.
Savoury snacks included
Entrance: £3.00 per person on the door
Please contact Mike and Dorrien on 01630 684299, or email, to reserve your place.
With the weather finally kind to us, most of our group turned out for a workparty the other Sunday.
We attended to several issues on the path from Hodnet to Fauls, the main one of which was to rebuild a long damaged stile. The photos below show our progress, with special thanks to Stephen and Tom who did most of the hardwork – with Stephen doing the paddling! – alongside the ever present Alfie (dog).
The rest of our group, including two newish members who said they really enjoyed themselves repaired some wobbly steps and cut back trees/vegetation. If you like the sound of that, please do get in touch to join us/find out more HERE – people do as much or as little as they enjoy/are capable of.
Hodnet Primary School
are hosting a Boden and Johnnie B clothing party on
Tuesday 10th May at the School
4.30pm – 6.30pm
Order your favourites on the night – all welcome
Click the logo below to visit their website.
Recently (March 2016) there has been a report of dog owners allowing their animals to run loose amongst heavily pregnant sheep in fields near Hodnet village.
Allowing pets to do this causes stress to farm animals at all times, but it is especially traumatic for expectant ewes.
The Countryside Code reminds dog owners:
it’s always good practice (and a legal requirement on ‘open access’ land) to keep your dog on a lead around farm animals and horses, for your own safety and for the welfare of the animals. A farmer may shoot a dog which is attacking or chasing farm animals without being liable to compensate the dog’s owner
Local residents and visitors are reminded of the need to take responsibility for their dogs when using footpaths across farmland. The Code seeks to encourage good practice in this respect and several others. Here it is in outline:
Respect other people
Protect the natural environment
Enjoy the outdoors
The expanded version of the Countryside Code can be viewed on-line at Gov.UK or downloaded as PDF leaflet.
The Kennel Club offer this advice to dog owners:
The National Farmers Union is also concerned about irresponsible dog owners and encourages people to enjoy the countryside by:
They also report on a terrible event on just a few days ago: UK’s worst sheep worrying incident – 116 dead.
More than one hundred sheep have died in the UK’s worst sheep-worrying incident in living memory near Chichester in West Sussex.The horrific discovery was made by farmer Gordon Wyeth at the West Dean Estate early on Monday afternoon (March 7).
The sheep, many of them pregnant, had been herded into a tight group against a fence and gate bordering woodland where they had panicked and had either died from shock or by being crushed in the flock.
A total of 116 sheep, worth about £17,000, died in the field just north of the A286, near the old railway bridge at the eastern end of the village.
Please don’t allow something similar to happen in this area!
Hodnet Footpath Group have organised another public walk for Sunday 3rd April, meeting at Lyon Hall car park for a 2pm start.
It’s likely that we’ll follow the route outlined in our walk leaflet 2, see this page.
All are welcome to come along. Feel free to bring family and friends – including dogs, but on leads please.
In case of really bad weather the event will be cancelled; if in doubt, check out the Hodnet website on the day.
Fund raising Quiz Night at The Bear.
Proceeds towards Right Royal Picnic Party in the Park on Saturday 11th June 2016.
£3 per person entry fee – Nibbles included – Teams up to 6.
Plans for a Parish Summer event are gathering pace and the planning group is looking forward to Right Royal Picnic Party in the Park which is planned for Saturday 11th June 2016. For more details please see the event’s page.
The next planning meeting is to be held on Tuesday, 12th April 7.30pm at Hodnet Club.
All those with ideas for the event are invited to come along and get involved.
In the last few days the Parish Council has published its new Community Led Five Year Parish Plan for Hodnet.
An outline of priorities and objectives along with details of how to obtain copies of the document (either electronic or printed) can be found on this page.