Welcome to our Stanton St Quintin village site!

 

 

Welcome to our village website. This is our lovely church of St Giles in sunshine replacing the original snowy one to reflect the change of seasons as we spring into Spring!

Following the dramatic snowfalls we've experienced in early 2010 we're hopeful for some wintry pictures to add to our "Stanton Web Slideshow". If you haven't already seen it, this can be accessed by clicking on "Gallery" on the Sidebar.

We would love to receive pictures from Villagers to publish on this site. Please have a look at your photo collection of Stanton, past & present, and send them via the "Have Your Say" link.

 

If you click on "Directory",again on ther Sidebar, you will see some contact details for me (Nick) & all the other members of the village Parish Council.

 

At our recent meeting (16/03/10) we were pleased to welcome Governors from the School who gave us further information concerning the proposed erection of a single storey extended service room.

A letter from the Planning Officer, Mandy Fyfe, was read out. Our District Councillor, Mr Howard Greenman had discussed theapplication with the Planning Officer and had not called it into Committe.

 

 

Please see Village News for more on this.

 

 

 

As well as the countdown on the Sidebar, it has been suggested that we make this date more prominent, so here it is:

 

 

There will also be a shorter Finance/Standing Orders meeting on 23rd June 2010. Please click on "Parish Council Meetings " below to see more on this.

 

Thanks very much to all the members of the public who turned out for our most recent meeting 26.5.10. I will publish the Draft Minutes as soon as they are available.

 

See below for more information reference our War Memorial.

 

The Parish Council has recently purchased a replacement notice board (The one at Gable House is no longer fit for purpose) & we discussed erecting it on the small patch of grass in front of the Church. If anyone has any comments about this, please let us know via the "Have Your Say" link.

 

 

If the Parish Council was able to provide land for allotments, would this be of interest to the Village? Again please let us know your thoughts via the "Have Your Say" link.

 

We understand long dormant Neighbourhood Watch Scheme might soon be revived.

If anyone would like more information about this please contact PC Heather Barham, our Community Beat Manager, either by telephoning 0845 408 7000 or emailing her at:

 

 

Interstingly, having just added the above to the website, we've received the following (28/1/10) from PCSO Norman Webster:

Burglary Kington Saint Michael.

Between 3.15pm and 5.40pm yesterday 27th January, we had a burglary at Kington St Michael, in the heart of the village. These people obviously fit in and look as if they should be there, can I ask if anything suspicious is seen that we are contacted or details of persons/vehicles are taken and passed as soon as possible.

Also a report by a Bouverie Park resident.

Around 2150 hours last night he found two males walking around outside his house When spoken to, they gave some story about trying to find another premises, wanting baby clothes and that their Sat Nav had taken them in the wrong direction..

Both white, average height, largish build. One with shortish, blonde to fair hair and the second with close cropped.

Described as mid 30's, local accents and wearing casual style clothes, dark tracksuit bottoms, one with a fleece top and the other with a beige top, possibly sweat shirt.

No vehicle seen. They were carrying something, but resident unsure what this was.

Norman.Webster@wiltshire.pnn.police.co.uk  or Tel: 0845 408 7000 Ext 733 816

 

 

 

Breaking News

  

Just received a Neighbourhood Police Newsletter (26/5/10)for Spring 2010 and the Crime & Community Breifing Paper, both of which can be accessed by clicking on "Village News" on the Sidebar.

 

 

Parish Council Meeting Minutes.

 

If you would like to view the Minutes of our previous Parish Council Meetings just click on the box below & then click on "Download" & finally"Open" to see these.They should then open in your "Word" programme. As always, if you experience any problems with this or any other aspects of this website please let us know at:

 

 

The date for the next meeting is Wednesday 26th May at 7:30pm in The School.

 

 

Have a look also at the "Useful Links" on the Sidebar which will take you straight to The School, The Church, Wiltshire County Council, The Police etc.

 

Please also have a look at the "Have Your Say" link on the Sidebar. If you click on this it should open your email programme with stantonstquintin@gmail.com in the To: Address Bar. Please let us know what you think of our village site & any thoughts, issues, problems you have concerning our village. I will check for new email daily & either answer myself or direct your email to the more relevant person on the Parish Council. We'd love to hear from you!

 

The above advice works fine if you're using an email programme like Outlook, Outlook Express or Windows Mail. However, if you use web based email like Hotmail or Yahoo you may need to actually type the address into the To: box. Please let us know if you experience any problems.

 

 

Please have a look at this link (on the Sidebar) to learn more about the recent theft of Cotswold stone tiles from our Church Lychgate.

There's also the annual report fom The Living Churchyard project. Any other items of Village News you'd like to see here? Please let us know.

 

 

Do you see the map at the bottom of the page? If you click firstly on "SAT" & then on the "+" sign, you can keep zooming in until you can see your own house. Great Fun!

 

 

Have you ever thought it odd that Stanton St Quintin doesn't have a war memorial?

 

We had a very moving ceremony at 11 o'clock on the 11th November 2009 when the children & teachers of the school met, along with 20 or so villagers & our 2 curates, Sarah & Eve, in front of our RAF graves in the cemetry adjacent to the school. The children placed wooden crosses in front of each of the 12 graves.

Another 4 crosses were placed in a patch of grass to commerate our 4 unknown war dead from The Great War.

 

We knew of this after "Googling" Stanton St Quintin war dead & finding this quote from the Wiltshire Community History:

 

 

A number of us in the village are trying to put faces & names to these sad but bare facts by looking at Parish Records stored at The History Centre in Chippenham & hope to publish definitive details very soon.

 

We also know that during World War 2 both the sons of Basil & Maude Alers Hankey of Stanton Manor lost their lives. Who knows, had one or both survived we might not have The Stanton Manor Hotel today.

 

If any of you in the Village have any personal memories, or maybe stories from your Grandparents, that could help in this research we would love to hear from you either via the "Have Your Say" link or even by telephone if email is not your thing!!

Phone details are available by clicking on the "Directory" link.

 

The question remains,why, unlike most villages, did we never build a memorial commemorating these young men. It is on the agenda for discussion at our Parish Council meetings

 

Breaking News. 

 

We now have sufficient comprehensive information concerning or war dead from the 2 World Wars, as well as details concerning the wounded & those who returned intact. Please click on "Village News" to see the detail.