Local Weather
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Events
Check out the Events page to find out what is going on in our village - and beyond: includes NEWS FEED from the BURY FREE PRESS
Next Parish Council Meeting: Thursday, September 27th, 7.30pm
Next Community Council Meeting: Monday, October 1st 6.30pm
Church Services
Church Services at All Saints Church, Hawstead
September 2018
263rd: Harvest Festival11am
375 Bus Service timetable.pdf
Adobe Acrobat document [167.9 KB]
Documents
A library of important documents relating to the Parish Council and the village, including meeting agendas & minutes and copies of the Hawstead Journal.
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NOTE: General Data Protection Regulations 2018.
Please note that archive material posted onto the website before 25 May 2018 may include limited personal data for which consent to publication has not been given. The Parish Council wants to continue to make such material, which is of local interest, easily available to residents, but has not had the capacity to review the content fully. Please contact the clerk to the Council if you have any objection to your name or other personal data appearing in this archive material in order that it might be removed forthwith.
....and a Movie!
To view the film made by Andy and Janet Taplin in support of our bid for the Suffolk Village of the Year competition (ie 2014)click HERE. It's a fantastic production!
Most documents posted on this site are in the "PDF" format and to see them on your compputer you need a program called Adobe Reader. If you don't have this on yoour compputer you can download and install it Free of Charge here
Address
Hawstead Parish Council
E-mail
catherine.hibbert@hawstead-parish-council.co.uk
Or use our contact form.
Also on the Contacts page you'll find MAPS!
ShareAll Saints Church, Hawstead
May 2017
Rev. Jeremy Parsons has taken up his appointment as Rector of the St Edmunds Way Benefice. He can be contacted at: The Rectory, Harrow Green, Lawshall IP29 4PB Tel. (01284)846166
There is a photo gallery of All Saints Church here!
Booklet - Hawstead Church update Jan 201[...]
Adobe Acrobat document [1.5 MB]
For a good, colourful description of All Saints Church, Hawstead see the Suffolk Churches website which is a labour of love (or so it seems) by one Simon Knott. Simon has also produced a similar survey of Norfolk churches and it looks like he has now embarked on dealing with Essex churches!
The National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies (NADFAS) has produced a substantial document "Record of Church Furnishings" relating to All Saints Church, Hawstead. It relates to visits by NADFAS members in 2007 and 2008 and is kept by the Church Warden. Here's the title pages:
Adobe Acrobat document [501.3 KB]
Link to the website for the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Link to an amateur video of All Saints Church, Hawstead (mostly the churchyard) made in Spring 2012 and published on U-Tube
Simon Miller, formerly Church Warden, researched the Registers of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials at All Saints Church and compiled digitsed versions. He has also created a list of the war dead from Hawstead (WW1 and WW2)
Baptisms inc 2014.pdf
Adobe Acrobat document [237.4 KB]
Note: dates are in American format MM/DD/YYYY
Marriages at All Saints Church Hawstead [...]
Adobe Acrobat document [189.4 KB]
War Dead Hawstead WW1 and 2.pdf
Adobe Acrobat document [35.2 KB]
NOTE: In the Churchyard area lists there are Cross-Reference and Other Information columns. These give the appropriate numbers in the Register and Monument Survey tables (separate document) as follows: 'R' = Church Register 1926 Onwards; 'X' = Church Register 1900-1926; 'M' = Monument Survey 1600-1926
ChurchyardPDF004.pdf
Adobe Acrobat document [3.0 MB]
Comprises:
Church Register 1926 -
Church Register 1900 - 1926 (from Suffolk Records Office)
Monument Survey 1600 - 1926 (from Suffolk Records Office)
ChurchyardPDF005.pdf
Adobe Acrobat document [3.6 MB]
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