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Benefice Newsletter 22nd October 2021

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Somerset Covid-19 Weekly Update 22 October_

Tree Nursery Open Day

Saturday 23rd October 10.00am – 3.00pm

Exmoor National Park Authority are in the process of making a community tree nursery in Exford, and we are holding a drop-in open day in Exford this Saturday. We’ll be in the auction field behind Exford School, opposite the Crown Hotel.

We’ll be collecting tree seeds from the area and processing them so they can be stored over winter, for growing on in the nursery next spring. If you have any seeds already collected (or could collect) then bring them along and we’ll help you process them (different seeds need different treatments). Make sure you have permission to collect from any private land and label your collections with a rough location and, ideally, the species.

We’re quite short on oak trees this year so any acorns would be great, but you are more likely to find rowan, hawthorn, sloes and sycamore (no ash seeds please). If you have fleshy fruits such as hawthorn, rowan or sloe, bringing a mixing bowl to squash them in (to get the seeds out) would be great.

We’ll also have some contractors onsite, cleaving chestnut to make a fence to go around the new tree nursery, and our woodlands team will be there to talk through plans for the nursery.

The whole event will be outside and will be run as a drop in event, so turn up for as much or little time as you want. Park in the public car park and follow the path away from the village.

For more upcoming tree planting and seed collection events see here http://bttr.im/8nbqg

Hope to see you there,

Patrick Watts-Mabbott
Volunteer and Outreach Officer
Exmoor National Park Authority

Tel: 01398 323665 (switchboard)

Police Newsletter Exmoor – OCT 2021

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Casual Vacancy has occurred in the office of Councillor on the Timberscombe Parish Council.

Unless ten electors for the Parish give notice in writing by Tuesday the 9^th day of November 2021

to the Returning Officer, Somerset West and Taunton Council, West Somerset House, Killick Way, Williton, Taunton, Somerset. TA4 4QA (elections@somersetwestandtauntoncouncil.gov.uk), requesting that an election be held, the Parish Council will, at a Meeting to be held on

29^th November 2021 at Timberscombe Village Hall, fill the vacancy by the co-option of a new Councillor.

Mrs L. Webb

Clerk to the Parish Council

Applecombe,

Great House Street,

Timberscombe.

Somerset.

TA24 7TQ

Dated: 21^st October 2021

Note: The requests do not have to arrive at the same time and can be in any form, for example, letter, fax or email.

If you think you might be interested in applying for this role, please contact me at timberscombepcclerk@gmail.com for further information.

Hello to whoever this may concern.

My brother and I have taken on a tenancy of 2 fields within the village.

One of them is alongside Wannaroo and the social club, this one we have padlocked and don’t want dogs/walkers in (I have already started informing people of this) the second field which is on the Wootton Courtenay footpath just over the bridge from Wannaroo, it is about an acre and a half with the Avil running alongside. This one we know is used as a dog walking field by the village. I have been around with the hedge trimmer and opened it up, I will also be cutting back the overgrown hedge alongside Heber Vale Lane. We are hoping to stock the field once we make it secure. I have spoken to the national park about altering the gates to make them more “people friendly” we would like the villagers to respect this as a livestock field and keep dogs on leads when sheep are contained, and any dog muck to be removed immediately. If this doesn’t happen we may fence the footpath out of the field direct to the other gateway.

Many thanks Oliver Hill

U3A Coffee Morning Poster October 2021