| Telephone Contacts for an A-Z List of locally-related organisations: |
| Baby & Toddler Group – meets on Tuesdays 9.15-11.15 am in the Village Hall during school terms. For details, contact: Sue Cooke: 07770 917605 Bell-ringing – every Tuesday evening at St. Giles Church – contact Brian Lowe: 873342 Bible Study - Group meetings to study the Bible every Monday at 2.30 pm in the Methodist Chapel. All are welcome – just turn up! Book Club – meets from 7.45 pm - 10.00 pm on a Tuesday once a month in a friend’s house. Please contact Valerie Hunt: 872564 Boys’ Football – for 6-16 year olds – 10 teams playing in Boys’ League, on Oxford Marathons’ pitches at Oxford Road, Horspath. A practice pitch with lighting is used near the Village Hall. Please contact Richard Kibble: 876373 Churchyard Conservation – a highly commended scheme in St. Giles’ churchyard - contact Sheila Frankum: 872793 Cycle Speedway – excellently maintained track near the Village Hall - contact Robyn Carter: 875858 Friends of Horspath Churches – continuing the activities of the Horspath M.U. For details, please contact Ella Garrett: 873584 Horspath Cricket Club – a thriving friendly club playing on the village cricket ground, with 3 men’s teams in the Cherwell League, and five youth teams, playing every Saturday, most Sundays (also in friendly matches) and on some weekday evenings in the summer. Playing and social members welcomed. Please contact Ed Murray on 873041 or Julian Edwards on 876490, for more details. Horspath Village Sports Association – based in the Clubroom and bar at the Village Hall. Contact Hon. Secretary: Shirley Woodcock: 876823. Horspath Village website – please contact the webmaster via the website: www.horpsath.org.uk Horspath Ladies Club – a new club for women of all ages. Please see the village noticeboard for details and venues of monthly meetings. Horspath Service Station – for MoTs, servicing, all kinds of repairs, and breakdowns, please call 873349 Men’s Football – 2 teams playing in the Oxford Senior League use the pitches on the Rover (BMW) Sports Ground in Horspath Road. – contact Daniel Normington on 873080 for details. Methodist Church – Minister: Revd. Dr.Tony Bell, 9 Ramsay Road, Headington, Oxford, OX3 8AX Tel: 01865 763676 For all Methodist Church hall & room bookings, contact Daniel Haylett: 01865 770703 Morland House (GP’s) Surgery, London Road, Wheatley, Oxon OX33 1YJ, Tel: 872448. District Nurses: 873630. Health Visitors: 872969. Neighbourhood Watch: for details please contact the Horspath Neighbourhood Watch Adviser/Co-ordinator, Neville Buckett: 873261 Oxfordshire County Council (County Hall main switchboard: 01865 792422): for all Highways Maintenance queries, including Traffic Calming, in Horspath, please call: Environmental Services: 01235 531331: or e-mail the Area Highway Engineers at drayton.depot@oxfordshire.gov.uk; for Street Lighting queries in Horspath, please call: 0800 317802. Parish Council: Chairman, retiring in April 2007: Martin Harris, Tel: 01865 872327 . A new Council will be elected on May 3rd 2007. Parish Clerk: Mrs Hayley Kogel, 63 Bowyer Road, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 2EP: Fax/Phone: 01235 534710 Parochial Charities – Chair: Barbara Lewis: 872204; Clerk: Sheila Dandridge: 873631 Police –For all non-emergency matters, please phone the Thames Valley Police Enquiry Centre: 08458 505505, but for any emergencies, or crimes witnessed in progress, please don’t delay, phone 999 straight away. Post Office - & Horspath Village Stores: Postmaster: Mr. Vipin Patel; Proprietors: Mr. & Mrs Patel: 872903 Pre-School Nursery - now takes children from two-and-a half years old and has additional afternoon sessions. For details, please contact Valerie Hunt (Chair) 872564 , or Tracy Fletcher at the Nursery 876750. Website: www.horspathnursery.org.uk St. Giles’ Parish Church – Vicar: Revd. Richard M. Cowles, The Rectory, 17 South End, Garsington: 361381 e-mail: vicar@cowles.globalnet.co.uk Churchwardens: Mr. Brian Lowe: 873342, and Barbara Lewis: 872204 School: Horspath C.of E. Primary School: Headteacher: Ms Jenny Knight; Secretary: Mrs Sue Ackland: Telephone & Fax: 872702; e-mail: office.3161@horspath.oxon.sch.uk Senior Residents’ Club – for those aged 55 years and over – meetings on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month – outings, talks, coffee mornings, lunches, quizzes etc. – the actual times vary according to the event – for details, contact Ella Garrett (Club Leader): 873584 Shotover Preservation Society – founded in 1974 to preserve Shotover in its natural state, against development, for free public access – now monitoring wildlife at E. end of Shotover – local contact: Martin Harris: 872327. Shotover Wildlife – a voluntary organisation founded in 1999 to research and communicate the importance of Shotover for wildlife – very full details on the website – or contact Ivan & Jacqueline Wright: 874423, or by e-mail: ivan@shotover-wildlife.fsnet.co.uk South Oxfordshire District Council (main switchboard: 01491 823000): to report infestation by rats or other pests, please call Pest Control on 01491 823202; to report dog-fouling of public places, please call Marion Warren-Tibbetts on 01491 823239; to report unlawful waste-tipping and abandoned vehicles, please call Public Amenities on 01491 823416. Temple Cowley Health Centre holds a Doctor’s Surgery in the Village Hall every Wednesday from 10.00 am for its registered patients, who must make their appointments to be seen in Horspath by first telephoning the Health Centre 777024. The Royal British Legion – welfare matters for the attention of the local (Chalgrove) branch: Mrs Sheila Dandridge: 873631 Village Hall – to make bookings for the use of the main Hall or the smaller Morgan Room – please contact John Trinder: 0796 082 3415 Wildlife Conservation Area – volunteers of all ages meet monthly (usually on a Saturday morning, but check which one on the noticeboard by the gate in Butts Road) to look after the woods, wildflower meadow, frogs and toads, bird nesting boxes, paths, ponds, wetland, and the bat tunnel in this 5-acre Wildlife Conservation Area. www.shotover.clara.net/horspath Please contact Martin Harris for details: 872327 |
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