If you haven’t already noticed the Fox and Hounds pub on Main Street in Great Gidding has had a bit of a wash and brush up and is looking ‘spick and span’. Why not pop along for a pint?
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These are the pictures I took in July 2011. I was a passenger in a hot air balloon which just happened to go over the area where I come from. My apologies for the quality – the weather was overcast. I was born in Winwick and attended
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A new event for The Giddings! Following the weekend of the Eliot Festival at Little Gidding there will be a series of cultural and fun events held in and around the village. From Monday 8th July through to Sunday 14th July there will be poetry, arts, crafts, lunches, cultural visits and a couple of fun events to cater for all tastes.
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Come along to a Garden Party at Crown Cottage, Great Gidding on Saturday 22nd June 7.30pm featuring the Peter Shepherd Jazz Trio and King’s School Swing Band.
Read more →The big clean out Townsend Pond or the Horse Pond as it is known in the village had reached crisis point. Almost completely silted up and giving off a foul smell when the water was low, it was becoming a bit of an environmental hazard. Long gone
Read more →We’re lucky in Gidding to have the only village shop in the area. The range of services offered by Aruna and Jed is terrific.
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For Cable Laying The main road (B660) has been temporarily closed so that BT engineers can work safely by the roadside at the long blind bend near the Recreation Field and the blind hump near Oak Tree Corner. This closure is for daylight working hours only and
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Welcome to The Great Gidding Close up Quiz. If you lived in the village at the time of the Golden Jubilee celebration in 2002 you will recall that we offered a paper based quiz that asked you to identify close up photographs of certain locations around the Parish
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General information about the Group: Meetings take place on the third Wednesday (September to April) and are very informal (no committee or agenda) and quite often we are just chatting about times past and memories, you don’t have to attend each one but would be really pleased
Read more →Polio is a terrible crippling disease. It was once the major cause of disability. Before 1988 there were over 350,000 cases reported per year worldwide. Now it is down to about a 1,000 cases per year. India use to have more cases than anywhere else. Now it
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