Sadly, it has been decided to CANCEL the Family Carol Service in St Michael’s Church, scheduled for this Saturday 18th December. The decision was not taken lightly, but inevitable in the light of rapidly increasing COVID infections. We hope you understand the difficulty in making that decision but
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PLANNING – LOCAL Ironically enough for a councillor who isn’t a member of the District Council’s Development Management Committee, I continue to spend a significant amount of time dealing with planning issues; to one degree or another, over the last year I have been involved with planning
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Great Gidding Christmas Cornucopia 2021 How lovely to be able to meet up with people again’ The village hall looks spectacular’ A great Great Gidding event’ So good to do something normal and Christmassy again’ Those are just a few of the comments made by visitors to
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Giddings Christmas cards are now on sale in the Village Shop including aerial views of the Giddings in winter, St Michael’s beautiful stained glass windows, Great Gidding in snow
Read more →An adventuresome group of four (that’s us three ‘girls’ and Stanley the dog) had a delightful return trip to Grafham Water yesterday courtesy of the new ‘bus-on-demand’ service named Ting. Once you’ve booked your journey by app or by phone the bus can be tracked in real
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As we prepare for next month’s extravaganza, we need help with one of the Gidding Cornucopia’s most popular attractions……the tombola. If you have a stash of ‘stuff’ that you just don’t know what to do with……unused presents, gadgets, toys, ornaments, etc. etc………why not donate them as tombola
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Come and say hello to ting WHERE: Village Hall car park, Great Gidding WHEN: Friday 22nd October, between 13.20 and 14.20 hours The ting bus is visiting Great Gidding so we all have chance to see what this new on demand transport service is all about before
Read more →Our Harvest Festival service last Sunday was the first at which the congregation could sing, albeit still wearing masks, for nearly eighteen months. The church was beautifully decorated, and thanks to all who did the decoration. The service was made up of hymns and readings, and taken
Read more →Gidding resident and artist Geoff Goddard has sent us the fifth one of his beautiful paintings in the series called ‘Autumn Lights’ which at 90cm x 60cm is the largest painting so far. The location is in the field just behind Alconbury brook from Great Gidding, accessed
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We had a fleeting visitor to Great Gidding on Tuesday, a cormorant, which was first reported outside the end bungalow in Mill Road and then walked and flew down Main Street.
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