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Mary Woolhouse
North Muskham, Newark, NottinghamshireIf you live in North Muskham there is a special educational charity called the Mary Woolhouse which gives grants to students under the age of 25 who are at college or university. Any young person in the same age bracket who have an apprenticeship rather than a college or university place may also be able…
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Great Ouseburn Parish Council
Great Ouseburn, York, North YorkshireThe Villages of Great and Little Ouseburn take their name from the river Ouse which starts as Ouse Gill Beck in the garden of the old Great Ouseburn Workhouse. At the original source of the Ouse (the spring now emerges aprox 35 metres away) stands a stone column bearing the inscription &l…
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West Meon Parish Council
West Meon, Petersfield, HampshireEarly West Meon In the 6th century the Jutes from Denmark settled along the Meon Valley. (As late as the 18th century the Meon Valley was called Jutedene, which meant Jute valley). The tribe who settled there were called the Meon wara (wara meant people or tribe). They gave the Meon River its name. They…
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Petts Wood Bowling Club
Petts Wood, Orpington, KentWelcome to Petts Wood Bowling Club! Members - Bowls Club System | Log in Do you want to: Learn to play bowls? Improve your game? Play in friendly matches, once or twice a week? Play competitively in club competitions & matches, regional leagues & competiti…
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Gosport Fareham & Dist Mixed Triples Bowls League
Portchester, Fareham, HampshireThe 'Gosport, Fareham & District Mixed Triples League' is a Lawn Bowls organisation formed by the constituent clubs in the district. The League organisation is generally known as 'the G and F'. Its purpose is to provide competitive (outdoor) bowling events and activities fo…
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Shipley Parish Council
Shipley, Horsham, West SussexWELCOME TO THE NEW WEBSITE Welcome to the website of Shipley Parish Council. Shipley Parish Council’s primary objective is to work in the interest of the residents of the parish and protect the identity and character of the parish for the enjoyment of parishioners, visitors and future generations…
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Stockton Petanque Club
Stockton, Southam, WarwickshireStockton Pétanque Club is based in the village of Stockton deep in the heart of Warwickshire, a very old village in a lime quarrying area which is famous for the prehistoric Ichthyosaurus that was discovered in the early 1900s, and now has pride of place in The British Museum. The object of …
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Cliffsend Parish Council
Ramsgate, KentCliffsend is a village on the Isle of Thanet about 3km west of the coastal town of Ramsgate. It has had a Parish Council since 2003 and has 988 properties containing 1,810 electors and their families (2024). Statistics from the 2021 census showed the age distribution as - 18% ag…
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Dewlish Parish Council
Dewlish, Dorchester, DorsetThe village of Dewlish is found cradled in a fold of the surrounding chalk hills straddled around a small stream, the Devil’s Brook, which runs along the valley bottom and through the village. Dewlish accommodates around 110 houses with a population of about 250. The houses are of mixed styl…
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Brockenhurst Bowling Club
Brockenhurst, HampshireBrockenhurst is a private members mixed Bowls club. Our greens and premises are run and maintained on a voluntary basis. We are to be found deep in the New Forest within the village of Brockenhurst, which is an open village with no barriers to the animals of the forest wandering through. This means tha…