Quick links
Hawstead on film:
To watch a short video made by Andy and Janet Taplin in support of our bid for Suffolk Village of the Year (2014), visit our Picture Gallery page.
Village information:
Visit our Documents page where you'll also find previous copies of the Village Voice and its predecessor, The Hawstead Journal.
Upcoming parish council and community council meetings. For all other village events and updates, take a look at our Events page.
Parish council meetings:
Parish Council meetings are held on the second Thursday of January, March, May, July, September and November in the village hall at 7.30pm. The agenda will be posted here a few days before each meeting
All Saints, Hawstead
Services take place as follows:
St Peter, Nowton
Services take place as follows:
Dates and times of all benefice services can be found on the noticeboard at All Saints, Hawstead.
You can also visit the website: A Church Near You from the Church of England.
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.
This website is maintained by local volunteers, for which thanks.
Any enquiries regarding this website can be addressed to Hawstead Parish Council.
E-mail
clerk@hawstead-pc.gov.uk
Also on the Contacts page you'll find MAPS!
Hawstead Journal
The Hawstead Journal first appeared in April 2002 under the leadership of Brian Kew, formerly of Bridge House, Pinford End. It appeared as an A5 booklet with (usually) colour illustrations and no advertisements. That style and format has been retained to the present day: however funding arrangements have changed and the initial generosity of local car dealers Cecil & Larter (helped by employee Peter Duffield being resident in Hawstead!) has morphed via Parish Council support to a situation whereby now local individuals and families sponsor individual issues.
From the start there was a policy of pass-the-parcel editorship: this eventually slowed down, so to speak and several individuals took spells at being editor, notably Geraldine West. It is now in the very safe hands of Dave and Judy Carter.
We are currently attempting to gather together a collection of back-issues which can be freely accessed via the website. In the meantime you may be interested in a list of articles which have appeared over the years. Not absolutely everything has been listed (and the meal recipies will constitute a separate list) and there are a few issues missing but anyway it's most of what's been written (apart from time-dependent and other ephemeral things) between 2002-2013
The Editor in July 2002, Gary Stokes wondered if the Hawstead Journal would be around five years on in 2007. Well yes it was, and it was also after ten years, in 2012!!