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Village Cleanup

The Parish Council organised a spring clean of the village on 12th April. Your councillors and a handful of volunteers, including three from YOI Ashfield, donned gloves and toted plastic bags to collect a skipful of litter from the roads and other public areas of Pucklechurch.

The village looked so much nicer for it! How much better Pucklechurch would look all the time if so many bottles, cans, bags, and wrappers weren't left about in the first place. We are all responsible for how our community looks, and cutbacks in non-essential public services like litter collection make personal responsibility more important.

Much of the litter looks as if it's left by the children and young people of the village. Please impress upon your children that cleaning up after themselves is as much their responsibility in public places as it is at home. Let them know that littering is so not cool!

Featured Walk:
Enjoy Panoramic Views Near the Reservoir

Short version -- approx. 2½ miles, 1 ½ hours, flat terrain

Long version -- approx. 4 miles, 2¾ hours, flat, hilly (steep uphill)

Note: Can be muddy underfoot in various parts. There is a picnic area and children’s playground halfway on long route.

Starting point: Village Hall car park

Walk onto Rec and head for church, passing through cemetery. Follow churchyard footpath to main gates and carefully cross road, turning right. After approx 50 yds, turn left into alleyway. At end turn left into Homefield Road and cross over onto right-hand side. Between nos. 27 and 25, turn left into alleyway. Climb stile, turn left, and walk along field edge, keeping backs of houses on left.

At last house/field corner, bear left, over stile, along footpath to stile on right, and into field. Follow directional arrow to right (approx 30° angle) to stile partially hidden in hedge. Climb over and walk straight across field to stile opposite. Climb over, follow footpath left around reservoir, straight over concrete track, to its end.

Do stop and admire the panoramic view before climbing stile to head straight across field to right-hand corner where there is a stile in the hedge. Cross and follow path through wooded area and tall kissing gate. At directional post, fork right through second kissing gate. Now you have a choice: the short or the long route.

SHORT ROUTE -- Turn right up a short path into a field and walk straight ahead with hedge on right. As field opens out to the right, continue straight across (you are walking on a slightly raised ridge) to a stile. Climb over into lane and turn right.

(The long route meets the short route here, and continuation directions for both routes are given in the paragraph marked ***)

LONG ROUTE -- Continue along path through wooded area until end, where a stile leads into a lane. Turn left. After approx 20 yards take stile on right into field (ignore building materials). Bear right, then left around mound, to stile in left-hand corner. Cross and walk downhill keeping close to left-hand hedge until you reach a stile. Climb over into wooded area and follow path to road. Cross carefully to stile and steps opposite. Climb steps and follow path into wood, through gate, and continue straight ahead until you pass into a field where a stile opposite leads you into Cattybrook Road. Turn right. (Children’s playground and picnic area are on left.)

At end of road, fork right down and through underpass, then follow footpath between hedge and newly erected fence. Ignore new wooden gate at quarry entrance and continue between hedge and new fence, eventually bearing right and climbing a steep uphill track. At the top, emerge into a lane and walk to the first public footpath sign. Continue route, from ***

***Continue along lane to left-hand bend. Cross over stile on right and follow path. Approximately one third of the way along hedge on left, there is a stile into the next field. Cross this and look diagonally right. The official footpath crosses the field at this angle, heading for left-hand edge of hedge at top of field, and enters into Kings Lane. However, depending on crop and time of year, it may be necessary to walk around the field, keeping the field edge on your right. When you come to a gate, you may pass through and turn immediately left into the wooded track (further part of Kings Lane), or continue to the hedge end and turn left through the gap into Kings Lane.

Walk along Kings Lane to its end, bearing left with the high grey wall on left, to its junction with Parkfield Road. Turn right and follow road to triangle junction with Westerleigh Road. Cross over carefully, turn right, and follow churchyard wall to main gates and retrace steps to Village Hall.

We hope you enjoy this walk. Whilst we endeavour to walk as many paths as frequently as possible and keep them clear, at this time of year everything grows very quickly. Please feel free to take a pair of secateurs with you and cut back any offending vegetation.

Ros and Mike Abbott

Pucklechurch Footpath Wardens

Revel Photo Competition 2008

Get snapping! This year's Bob Stone Memorial Photography Competition, sponsored by the Revel Committee, will offer cash prizes in two age groups and two categories.

Age groups:

· 17 and under (entry is free)

· 18 and over (£1 per entry)

Categories:

Entries are due in by September 20th. The competition is open to amateur photographers who are residents of Pucklechurch, Shortwood, Abson, Westerleigh, Hinton, Doynton, and Dyrham and any student attending Pucklechurch Primary School. Rule sheets will be available at the Revel stall on Revel Day and from the Pucklechurch Post Office over the summer.

The exhibition and prize-giving will be held on Sunday, 12th October, in the Village Hall.

Pucklechurch Produce Show

The Pucklechurch WI and Gardeners' Club Product Show will take place this year on Saturday, 13th September, in the Scout Hut. Visitors are welcome from 2.30pm. Refreshments will be available, together with a raffle. Prize giving will take place at 3.30pm. Hope to see you on the day.

Tony Pratt, Chairman

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