NEWS FROM WARTON VILLAGE

Visit and tour of Claver Hill Community Garden

Thursday 9 May.  Arrive 10.15am Claver Hill, Ridge Lane, Lancaster  LA1 3JY.  Tour starts 10.30am.

After our talk in April from Kathy Barton about Claver Hill Community Garden we have arranged a visit and tour of Claver Hill. If you weren't with us for the talk, this is a community food project located on six acres of land on the edge of Lancaster. 

The project hosts a number of different initiatives such as a seed exchange, composting, natural dyes, beehives, raised beds, heritage apples, and a preserves group.

Our visit will include their nature walk with terrain that is rough and uneven in places, so do please be mindful of this.  And whilst we've had some sunshine this week, do please dress for the weather and wear comfortable shoes.

The tour will start at 10.30am so please arrive for 10.15am to be ready to start.  We are making our own way to the site but happy to share transport if possible. See location map below.

Do let us know if you're making your own way so we can expect you or if you need a lift  - please contact our Chair, Emma Berry, on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or text her on 07960 716454.   

There is no charge for the visit. The Gardening Club will make a donation to Claver Hill to help replace their small cafe and compost toilet which was burnt down by vandals a few weeks ago.

Come along and be inspired.

 The Warton Village & allotments gardens open for the National Garden Scheme on  the 15th & 16th June 2024 ….more details are to be found here  - >    https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/32253/warton-gardens

 We also update locally on  https://www.facebook.com/6WartonGardensNGS & https://www.instagram.com/awartongarden/

If local garden lovers are looking for National Garden Scheme County Booklets in adjoining counties, then digital Flipbooks are available via  https://linktr.ee/awartongarden111 .

If they would like other counties elsewhere in the UK then they should email me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. & I can send a PDF or a digital flipbook

A short cut to the National Garden Scheme ‘ find a garden’  is here : http://tinyurl.com/Lancashire-Open-Gardens

Readers please note that the Warton Village website is administered completely independently from the Parish Council website and, as such has no association, connection or influence with any function of the Parish Council. Readers who wish to complain about or raise local issues should direct their correspondence, in the first instance, to the Parish Council Clerk at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and not to the Village Website email address.

The Warton Village & allotments gardens open for the National Garden Scheme on  the 15th & 16th June 2024 ….more details are to be found here  - >    https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/32253/warton-gardens

 We also update locally on  https://www.facebook.com/6WartonGardensNGS & https://www.instagram.com/awartongarden/

 

If local garden lovers are looking for National Garden Scheme County Booklets in adjoining counties, then digital Flipbooks are available via  https://linktr.ee/awartongarden111 .

 

If they would like other counties elsewhere in the UK then they should email me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. & I can send a PDF or a digital flipbook

 

A short cut to the National Garden Scheme ‘ find a garden’  is here : http://tinyurl.com/Lancashire-Open-Gardens

https://linktr.ee/WartonParishMagGardeningNotes

Good news! Live theatre is returning to Warton Village Hall!  WDG’s next production will be held in the Village Hall from May 29th to June 1st, a dramatic modern re-telling of a Greek tragedy, ‘Antigone’.  We need volunteers!  We are looking for 2 young men to play the role of Guards, with not a lot of lines to learn.   We also need helpers backstage, particularly to help create the dramatic theatre setting in the Village Hall, which is always one of the attractions of seeing a play there.  Do come forward to help.  The Drama Group has an excellent reputation and has been providing quality drama in the village for over 50 years, so let’s be sure it won’t die out!

 Please contact Tony Parsons on 07900184601 if you’d like to help or act.

Village residents will be pleased to hear that the Parish Council have now raised the issue of speeding vehicles and reckless driving through the village with the Area Traffic Management Officer, Police  Headquarters Operations and the person who recently instigated traffic speed monitoring procedures in the village.  As a result of that monitoring it has been confirmed that there is a problem with speeding traffic through the village. The local Neighbourhood Policing Team have now been formally tasked to undertake formal speed enforcement action. No date for such action has yet been decided, as this will be dependent on competing demands as well as resources availability. Hopefully, irresponsible drivers will now be identified and appropriate action taken to deter future problems. The Parish Council in the meantime will be monitoring the situation closely.

 

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