Wiltshire Council have announced an immediate closure of Crudwell Lane in Chedglow, for Wessex Water to carry out an urgent mains leak repair.
The work begins today (Monday 8th December), and is anticipated (but not guaranteed) to be completed on Wednesday 10th December.
For full details, please see Wiltshire Council’s official notice.
When we ran the Parish Survey in June 2014, over 40% of those who replied expressed an interest in faster broadband. Since then, the Parish Council has been busy trying to make this a reality. BT has stated that it will not begin survey work for fast broadband in Crudwell before early 2015, and – even if the service is implemented – it’s likely to take 12-18 months from that point before orders can be placed.
The Council approached a local supplier, Cotswold Wireless (CW), which offers a wireless broadband service. It puts a small receiver on your premises, and has a larger transmitter on a high building nearby. CW has successfully implemented in Hankerton and Oaksey. It has now carried out a feasibility survey, and has is confident that it can provide a service in Crudwell village too. CW clearly needs to have some degree of commitment from potential customers before investing in the equipment.
If you’re interested in speeding up your broadband connection, please take a look at the CW web site:
http://www.cotswoldwireless.co.uk/ccn/wireless.html
You will see there are four levels of service, and you choose which one you want. Prices vary depending on the amount of data you consume.
Provided enough people sign up, service could begin within a week or so.
The Small Print:
This is not a final commitment, and CW will check that you can receive service first before confirming with you that you wish to go ahead. However, CW bases its investment decisions on the numbers pre-ordering, so please only do so if you genuinely plan to take advantage of the service (subject to availability). See the “What you need to know” section on the order form for more details. If you need more information about the service, please contact CW direct (details on the web site)
Although the Parish Council has helped to facilitate the service, this is a contract between you and Cotswold Wireless. Crudwell Parish Council is not specifically endorsing the service; we’re only trying enable a better service to the community, based on the feedback from the Parish Survey.
Autumn leaf clearance and grip cutting have both commenced. Winter preparations are also underway – there is information available on a county level regarding road gritting and snow clearance.
The Highway Steward will be visiting Crudwell on Monday 15th December. The Steward scheme is operated by Wiltshire Council to carry out minor highways works, including for example hedge trimming around road signs, clearance of debris and leaves obstructing footways, clearing storm drains, small pothole repair, and the removal of ragwort. Please report any such local highway issues to Wiltshire Council to ensure that they receive attention.
Crudwell Parish News Needs You!
Dear Parishioners,
Crudwell Parish Council were under no misconception when they launched the Crudwell Parish News in July 2012 that the magazine would be able to survive without significant additional assistance from interested volunteers. It has now become essential for the Crudwell Parish News to survive in its present format for volunteers to come forward who are willing to help supplement the management team. The team are seeking in particular volunteers who have IT and desktop publishing experience; although anyone with an interest in assisting the CPN team in any other way will be most welcome.
The Crudwell Parish News belongs to the Parish. The fundamental aim of the magazine is, that it should continue to be delivered free of charge to every household within the Parish. This can only be achieved with the contribution of a dedicated team of enthusiastic people. Without volunteers coming forward to give assistance, Crudwell Parish Council will unfortunately have to cease producing the CPN in its present format.
To make the CPN cost neutral we desperately need more advertisers, donations or you may wish to sponsor a page. If you can offer any help please contact the Editor, Ian McKay E-Mail: Please switch on JavaScript to see our email address or Gerda Hayes Please switch on JavaScript to see our email address or if you require any further information please do not hesitate to contact Jonathan Furlonger E-Mail: Please switch on JavaScript to see our email address or any member of the Parish Council.
In the middle of Crudwell village, opposite the Mayfield House Hotel, is a large field which people often use to walk their dogs. There’s a footpath which follows the line of the Swill Brook and goes across the bridge and round the back of Crudwell School.
This field is owned by the Diocese of Bristol – the church organisation responsible for looking after church buildings and land in the Bristol area. The diocese plans to fence off the part of the field to the south of the footpath so it can be used for grazing livestock. This means that most of the field will not be available any more for dog walking.
The diocese has offered to lease the remaining area of land – roughly from the stream to the footpath – to the Parish Council to use as community land. We would be responsible for keeping it neat and tidy, and cutting the grass, and it would be available for public use.
We’d like to know what you think about that idea! Would you use the land? What for? Should we try and turn it into a facility the village doesn’t have at the moment, and – if so – what could that be? Or do you think it would just become a litter-strewn eyesore, and we should turn down the offer from the diocese? Please let us have your thoughts by using the Contact form on the website, or by email to Please switch on JavaScript to see our email address.
Advance Warning: We are having some new play equipment installed in the week beginning 8th December. You may find the Village Hall car park is a bit busier than usual while the contractors are working. We’re sorry about this; please bear with us while the work is done so we can provide improved play facilities for our 2-4 year old residents!
I wrote in a previous blog entry about new play equipment for our younger residents. Well, I’m very pleased to say that at long last . . . . we have a date!
The new facilities are designed for 2-4 year olds, and the equipment will be installed in the playground next to the Village Hall in the week beginning 8th December. During that week, you may find the playground is unavailable at certain times, so everybody stays safe while the four new items are put in place.
At the same time, we will be repairing the damaged paving by the swings.
Please bear with us while we upgrade the playground, and we’re sorry if the Village Hall car park is a but busier than usual while the work is going on.
Over the last year or so, the Parish Council has been researching the idea of an automated external defibrillator, or AED, in Crudwell. You may have seen yellow boxes on the walls of public buildings in nearby villages such as Sherston and Kemble, and we thought Crudwell ought to have the facility as well.
An AED is an electronic box of tricks which can help restart the heart of someone who has suffered a major heart problem. Today’s AEDs are designed to be used by ordinary people, and provide either a video screen, or spoken commands, to tell you what to do.
We are still working with a number of different organisations to sort out which AED to buy and where to put it, as well as important things like insurance, but we hope to have it installed by Christmas. In the meantime, if you have comments, or you have previously used an AED, please tell us by using the comment form below – or post on our Facebook account. And if you do find yourself in an emergency situation, don’t wait: Dial 999!
Stuart in The Butts was working quietly at his desk today when he heard a loud crack. Inside, all was quiet. Outside, the wind had blown over one of the horse chestnut trees opposite his house. Stuart grabbed his camera and took this photo of the damage.
Horse-Chestnut – photo credit Stuart Madeley
Please be careful if you walk down The Butts ,as the pavement is blocked on the west side. We have reported the fallen tree to Wiltshire Council, using their “MyWiltshire” app (available on Apple or Google smartphones and tablets), and are waiting for the debris to be cleared away. Later this year, we will be planting the trees given to us under the Malmesbury Waitrose planting scheme – more news on those later.