Join the cashless economy

Do you know that Chipping Norton has a LETS (Local Exchange Trading System) scheme up and running? It works by members offering goods and services, like surplus crops from their allotments or their time to help with caring, in return for notional tokens which can …

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Thomas steams into Chadlington Playground

A beautiful new piece of play equipment for younger children has been added to the playground. It has been lovingly handmade by Brian Hamblin, Parish Councillor. Why not go along and say ‘hello’ or even ‘toot, toot’?   Chadlington Playground is widely known and used …

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Both Chadlington history books available…and the village map

Local author and local history enthusiast Nina Morgan now has copies of the second (blue) history book produced by the Chadlington History Society that met for many years during the 1990s/2000s. So you can now purchase both books “Chadlington Life & History, Accounts. Memories and Facts …

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New butchers take over from Slatters

A huge sigh of relief was heard around Chadlington with the news that the butchers shop in the village will not be closing following the Slatters’ retirement after all. Oliver Weaver, a managing partner of the renowned Patrick Strainge butchers in Bampton, will be the …

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No need to buy bottled water

A new scheme called ‘ReFill’, originally pioneered in Bristol has come to Chipping Norton. Local companies in the town have signed up to refill empty bottles with clean, FREE tap water. English tap water is one of the cleanest in Europe so there is no …

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Charlbury Station Housing Development

West Oxfordshire District Council has relaunched plans to build a care home, affordable and self-build housing in Charlbury at Rushy Bank, near the station. They have re-advertised the application for the development near the town’s railway station after its original decision to approve it was over-ruled …

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Sunday 5-a-side

Anyone who’d like to join a regular 5-a-side football session at Chipping Norton Leisure Centre on Sunday evenings should contact Martin for more details.