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The 1st April sees the start of a new WI Membership year and new members are very welcome to join. Our meetings are held at 7:30pm in the Reading Room on the second Tuesday of every month except August.
There is a varied programme with speakers covering topics from history, nature, the local area and a quiz night. We also arrange one trip per year. It's a great way to meet new people in the village and socialise. Please contact Pam Holley on 07779653744 if you would like to join. Temporary Traffic Regulation Notice – S14 Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 Temporary Road Closure and “No Waiting” restriction at Buscot, A417 Lechlade Road In the interests of public safety, it will be necessary for Oxfordshire County Council to close the road and impose a ‘No Waiting’ restriction as detailed above to facilitate surface sealing works A temporary Notice is being made to implement the temporary closure and will operate 13 May 2026 up to and including 18 May 2026. This will operate between 04:00 and 18:00 A Temporary Traffic Regulation Notice is being made to implement the temporary closure and restriction and will operate on the days shown above. Please note that Notices for urgent works can last up to 5 consecutive days only. Access will be maintained for emergency service vehicles and for those frontages within the closure area, subject to the progress of the works and liaison with the works supervisor. A copy of the drawing showing the extent of the closure and restriction and also the alternative route for traffic is attached. Further information regarding the works may be obtained by contacting Tim Belton – M Group / Oxfordshire County Council on 0345 310 11 11. T17629/AC Copy of notice  The March 2026 District Councillors Report is now available on the website.
https://www.greatcoxwell-pc.gov.uk/shared/attachments.asp?f=a9225133%2D0641%2D4ca0%2D99dd%2Dd440430d3722%2Epdf&o=DC%2D2026%2D03%2Epdf Dear all, Our next concert in the Stonevale Concert Series will be on Sunday, the 15th of March at 4 pm, at St Giles Church, Great Coxwell. Treat your mum and come and join us. Included in the ticket price is the usual glass of wine/soft drink, but also some tasty nibbles to celebrate the special day. Book your tickets here, or at the door (cash preferred as the internet is weak in the church!) Please spread the word, as proceeds go towards the artists' fees and the St Giles Roof Fund Charity. Best wishes, Lynette  Dear all,
This is my evening of marketing all of the wonderful music that is happening at St Giles Church, in Great Coxwell. We have not only a concert on Sunday the 15th, but also an evening concert on Friday 13th of March, at 7 pm, where some of the award holders at Abingdon School will give a recital. The concert will include a huge variety of instruments, as well as repertoire and some chamber music. The concert is completely free, but it would be helpful to book seats here just to keep an eye on numbers. Please come and support these young musicians. Best wishes, Lynette GREAT COXWELL VILLAGE ALLOTMENT
The Great Coxwell Village Allotment lies between Church Lees and Spicers at the Southern end of the village. It is National Trust land designated for use as allotments only and is managed by Mandy Burns on behalf of the village. There is one allotment available for immediate use. If anyone from the village is interested and would like further information. Please contact Mandy on 07968 439408 or [email protected] Residents who receive garden waste collections in South Oxfordshire and the Vale of White Horse are being reminded to buy a new permit if they wish to continue receiving collections from 1 April through to 31 March 2027.
South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils introduced the garden waste permit scheme in spring 2025. More than 69,000 residents across both districts signed up in the first year, helping to support a reliable and sustainable garden waste collection service. Garden waste permits expire on 31 March each year and residents must buy a new one annually to keep receiving the service. The quickest and easiest way to buy a new permit to do so online at southandvale.gov.uk/gardenwastepermit Anyone who needs help to buy a permit can call the councils’ Customer Services team on 01235 422422. When residents receive their new permit sticker, they are asked to keep their current permit on their garden waste bin until after their final March collection. The new permit should then be placed on the bin lid ready for April collections. Links for the February Draft Minutes
Parish Council https://www.greatcoxwell-pc.gov.uk/community/great-coxwell-parish-council-20863/february-2026/ Reading Room https://www.greatcoxwell-pc.gov.uk/community/great-coxwell-parish-council-20863/20261/ David Hatton Clerk to Great Coxwell Parish Council 07888 203145 I picked up a copy of "The Buildings of England - Berkshire" by Nikolaus Pevsner the other day (ISBN 0140710302 published 1966, reprint 1975), here's what he had to say about Great Coxwell:
ST GILES. At the end of the village. Nave of c.1200. The N wall has two small lancets. In the S wall a jolly lot of odd windows, the earliest early C14 (with cinquefoiled rere-arch). The chancel N side of the same date as the nave, though the chancel arch must be mid C13, the s window with bar tracery (a spherical triangle) later C13, and the E window (three stepped pointed-trefoiled lights under a round arch) late C13. Inside the E window two plain lancet niches. Do they go with the N side? A window like the E window also in the tower W wall, but the top of the tower is Perp; battlements and gargoyles. - PULPIT. Jacobean. - COMMUNION RAIL. Later C17, with flat balusters of dumb-bell outline. - NORTH DOOR with impressive, large-scale tracery. It might well be of c.1300. - STAINED GLASS. In the E window clear glass panes with engraved shields. 1792 by Eginton. - PLATE. Chalice inscribed 1680; Paten probably of the same date. BRASS to William Morys, c.1500; 18 in. figures. COURT FARMHOUSE. Late C17 stone farmhouse. Front of five bays, the ground-floor windows with stone crosses. Pitched roof. To the farmhouse belongs the magnificent BARN which William Morris (whose country-house was only a few miles away at Kelmscott) called 'as noble as a cathedral'. It is of stone and roofed with stone slates, and is 1524 ft long and 51 ft high. The date is C13. The buttresses are still shallow, also in their set-offs. Entrances by a transept and an archway opposite the transept. The archways are segment-headed and have two continuous chamfers Posts divide the barn into nave and aisles. The coillare and straight braces, transverse in well as longitudinal, are strong and serviceable and entirely utilitarian. In an Addendum added August 1965: .. attention must be drawn .. to the explanation of the grandeur of the Great Coxwell barn by the fact of Great Coxwell Manor belonging to the Cistercian Abbey of Beaulieu in Hamphire |
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