The Shee: Nettlebed Folk Club, Monday 9 October 2017

CANCELLED In January 2016, six-piece contemporary folk ensemble, The Shee, launched Continuum at Celtic Connections. Continuum proved more than just an album: the project was conceived to celebrate the band's tenth anniversary and saw each member of the band invite their favourite folk legend to compose an original piece of music with the band in mind. The result was a fantastic live show, incorporating music written for the band by Andy Cutting, Brian Finnegan, Karine Polwart, Martin Simpson, Kathryn Tickell and Chris Wood, and later, an album. Now, after rave reviews, two high profile tours and summer festivals, The Shee is ready to wave it a fond farewell, with four celebratory gigs in October. The band will kick off at Nettlebed on Monday 9 October. Tickets are £15 and can be reserved using the booking form found online: http://nettlebedfolkclub.co.juk/ABF-JULY-DEC-2017-FINAL.pdf...
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New Village website – help please

The new village website is up and running. It's only objective is to spread information and improve communication in the village. It is run by a few voluntary editors representing different groups in the community. Please help us by having a look at it at https://www.nettlebed.org and then making suggestions to bring it up-to-date and keep it that way by sending information to the editors. You can email the editors by clicking here...
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New 139 bus timetable from 3rd September and withdrawal of Sunday service

Route 139/X38 Please tell your neighbours who may not have access to email The 0645 journey from Wallingford and 0713 journey from Henley will be withdrawn.  On school days the first journey to Henley will now start in Oxford and operate as service X38 to Henley. The X38 will follow the same route as the X39/X40 from Oxford, St Aldates to Wallingford. From Wallingford buses will operate via Winterbrook and CABI and then to Crowmarsh roundabout before following the 139 route to Henley.  On school days the 1630 from Henley will now operate as service X38 to Wallingford and will operate in the opposite direction to as described above. The bus will then continue to Oxford as service X40. Passengers may remain on the bus and through fares will be available.  At the request of Henley College, due to congestion outside the college, buses at college times will no longer serve Deanfield Avenue but instead serve Hart Street.  The Sunday 139B service will no longer operate...
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Planning application

The council has received a planning application, reference P17/S3128/FUL, for development work at the following location: Land between Wysteria Lodge & 10 Catslip Catslip The application is for: Variation of conditions to discharge conditions 2 of Planning Permission P16/S1995/FUL Demolition of existing stable block and erection of two detached dwellings and garages (Amended plans received 16 August 2016 showing dormer windows changed from gable to hipped dormers). You can see details of the application on our website by clicking this link ...
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Village Club

The “Working Men's Club”, now known as the Village Hall and Club, was commissioned for the village in 1911 by Robert Fleming, the newly arrived squire, and designed by C. E. Mallows, F.R.I.B.A., a Bedford and London architect. It was built in 1912, using local materials where possible, wood from Scotland and with labour from the Fleming estate. The official opening was in February 1913, at a dinner given by Robert Fleming for everyone in the village. It provided the venue for a wide range of village activities, including quiz shows, musical evenings, plays, dances, gymnastics, rifle shooting, leisure classes, and a cinematograph (“kinema”) which allegedly provided the first example in England of film used as a teaching aid for the school children, c.1914. There was also, of course, a bar where the men could escape their womenfolk, since the word “men” in its original title meant just that, and it is only in the middle of the 20th century...
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History of the White Hart

By Andrew Landmann There has been an inn on the site since the 15th century which was previously known as “The George”. In 1456-7 John Wattes held the licence for the inn and paid a rent of 8 pence per year. A ten year legal battle arose in 1504 when the new owner of the George, Thomas English tried to evict the previous tenant, John Wise who refused to move out. The name was changed during the Tudor Period to the White Hart, probably to reflect the resurgence in the popularity of the monarchy. Hunting was a favourite sport of King Henry VIII, and a white hart is a famous old English hunting symbol. The White Hart became a posting house at the time of the name change, where wagons would stop and collect post and parcels for carriage to London, Oxford and Henley. Nettlebed had at least three inns at this time, for in 1536-37 the three Innkeepers where fined for overcharging! The...
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