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An introductory guide to Hawstead for new villagers
Welcome Booklet for new residents April [...]
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Includes a map of our greens and the Millennium Field
Confirmed byelaws 2016.pdf
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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.
Events
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
Church services
All Saints, Hawstead
Services take place as follows:
- Second Sunday of each month (morning prayer at 11am)
- Fourth Sunday of each month (Eucharist at 11am)
St Peter, Nowton
Services take place as follows:
- First and third Sunday of each month at 11am
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.
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Address
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!
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The Metcalfe Arms has been transformed into a cycle shop and cafe: there were articles in East Anglian Daily Times and in the Bury Free Press. in January
Here's a link to the Picture Gallery of the transformation from pub to cycle shop
and here's a link to the MagliaRosso website
The Future of the Metcalfe Arms
Local businessman Barry Denny and his son Matt are both keen cyclists. Matt’s company, Lark Valley Projects, bought the Metcalfe Arms pub, along with 5 acres of adjoining land, in the Autumn of 2013.
Barry was interviewed about this on Radio Suffolk on Thursday, 9th. Jan. 2014 because unusually the project was not to refurbish and reopen the pub, but to turn it into a licenced café and cycle shop. Barry said that in his opinion the centre of town is the wrong place for a cycle shop – it should be out there in the country where recreational cyclists go!
Barry is vice-chairman of the West Suffolk Wheelers cycle club, whose chosen dress colour when riding out is red: he and Matt have chosen red as a theme – in name at least – as they have called the business “Maglia Rosso”. This is Italian for “red jersey” and is the colour worn by leaders in Italian cycle races.
During the radio interview, Barry extolled the virtues and pleasures of our country area south of Bury St Edmunds: since Hawstead is not on any current regularly-used cycle routes, he plans to encourage riders to come this way by compiling a series of maps. Clearly the “Maglia Rosso” will feature as a stopping-off point for refreshments!
The shop caters for enthusiasts interested in the “mid to high end”, expenditure-wise: other features include cycle hire, cycle repair and a ‘training’ area in the adjoining field. The shop is at the front where the bars were, but with an entrance on the car-park side. Also on this side, but at the rear, is the café, and naturally Hawstead residents are welcome and are encouraged to use it.
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