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WELCOME
TO THE OVER VILLAGE NOTICE BOARD
This page has been set up for
the community to advertise events, missing, lost and found, items to sell and
items wanted and a whole lot more.
( If
you would like to place an advert on the Web Village Notice Board then contact
us with the details - use this Notice Board as you currently do with the Post
Office and other Notice Boards throughout the village )
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Details |
Contact |
| Clubs and Societies
in the Village can advertise FREE on this Website, for more details
e-mail or call. |
contact@overvillage.co.uk
Tel: 01954 232789 |
| Attention
Local Businesses don't just have your business listed under the Contact
page, get noticed by having a full page Ad. A one page Ad on
the Web is an inexpensive alternative to a Website and it will also enable your Business to have
a presence on the World Wide Web! |
contact@overvillage.co.uk
Tel: 01954 232789 |
Over
Parish Plan
Over Parish Plan
Steering Group – Final Report - see link. Bill Wilson
Chair
Steering Group
Bill
Wilson ( Chairman ) - Brian
Chapman ( Secretary ) |
For
further details on the Over Parish Plan Steering Group click the link below:
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Notice From Over Parish Council
Appeal
Decision and Case Summary re: development of 28 houses
to the rear of Long Furlong, High Street, The Lanes and adjacent
Papworth Close
The full decision and case summaries
on appeal for the new development to the rear of Long Furlong, High
Street, The Lanes and adjacent Papworth Close can now be viewed on
the website
Links to Case
Summaries for APP/W0530/E/06/2030614 & APP/W0530/A/06/2030589 -
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To view pdf file
of decision
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Over Parish Plan - Transport
The Parish Council are now
responsible for taking forward the proposed action, one of the
area's to be looked at under TRANSPORT is to set up a register of
those people prepared to share transport to reduce the number of
single occupant journeys.
If you are an Over resident and would like to register, please click
on the link and enter your details/register on the Over Village
discussion board.
(After registering as an OVER RESIDENT you will need to wait
24 hour before you are able to post a message to the board) |
To
register your interest in car sharing, please click below.
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Sports Development Plan For Over
One of the recommendations of the Parish Plan was for a Sports
Development Plan to be produced for Over. The purpose of a
Development Plan is to provide an overview of sports provision in
the village, identify gaps in provision, help and support clubs to
overcome the challenges they face in achieving their objectives, to
identify priorities for action including co-ordinating bids for
grant aid where there is a benefit for more than one club, and
bring potential members and sponsors attention to what is available.
Full details, covering meetings and
progress reports, will be available on the Village website.
Helen Hyde
Chairman Sports and Recreation Group. |
For
further details on Sports Development for Over, click the link below:
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COMMUNITY
ENGAGEMENT & COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
My
name is Heidi Weight and I am the new Community Engagement and
Communications Officer at South Cambridgeshire District
Council. I work around the Major Growth sites to engage local
people, and hopefully get their views on issues which effect
them. I am in the process of organising a series of community
events in and around the local area as part of the Northstowe
Consultation process.
If anyone is interested in attending
such events or would like more information then please contact
me
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VILLAGE EVENT
1) Every Saturday evening whist drive at
Elm Court, 7.30 pm start. Everyone welcome. £2.00
including raffle and refreshments. (This is open to anyone who
would like to come along - Elm Court kindly provide the venue).
2) Singles dining group - second
Sunday in each month, Sunday lunch at various local pubs, at
village pub if shortage of drivers. Lunch usually booked for
1pm. This is open to anyone who is on their own, and aged
approx 50 plus. Our current 'membership' stands at about 20.
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If anyone is interested in either of
these events, please contact Jane Lovett on 01954 232375 for
more information.
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SWAVESEY VILLAGE COLLEGE
During the academic year
2008/9 we shall celebrate 50 years of SVC with a number of events.
It is our intention to welcome back past staff, students and friends
of the college to share in these celebrations.
Please see the college website for
further details :
www.swaveseyvc.co.uk
In November 2008 an archive
exhibition will be held. We would welcome contributions of any
photographs, school work, reports or other memorabilia for display. |
Please contact Mrs Sue Pollitt on
01954 230366 ext.234 or e-mail
sue.pollitt@swaveseyvc.cambs.sch.uk |
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OVER CARNIVAL 2008 - COMMITTEE MEMBERS
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Walking in
Cambridgeshire
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CAN YOU HELP
Hello
to Over
I am
seeking any information, perhaps through your Historical Society, of
the Chapman family of Over.
William
Chapman was married to Susan Butcher in Cambridgeshire on 11 July
1815. Their two sons, John and Robert, subsequently came to
Australia as farm labourers from Over, arriving in Sydney on the
“Bengal” in February 1855.
Son
John was married to Elizabeth Ship in Over and brought with him his
children, George and Mary Ann. Three other children, James, Harry
and Ralph were born in Australia.
Of more
interest to me is son Robert (1827-1906) who married Jane (Jayne)
Pain (Payne) on 22 October 1850. Two children were born in England:
Charles (1851), Alfred (1852) and three in Australia: Sarah
Elizabeth (1856), Robert Edward (1868) and my grandmother Martha
Jane (1869). She married John Henry Jurd in 1888.
On
arrival in Sydney both families moved directly to Torryburn, near
Bundarra, west of Armidale NSW. In the first few years Robert worked
as a farmhand and then was granted land nearby on which he began a
dairy and later expanded in grazing cattle until his death in 1906.
They became quite well-off.
My
enquiry is:
Can
anyone supply information about the Chapman family or life and times
around Over before these dates, and Are there any other descendents
of William Chapman today.
Hope there is some link with the past I can build on.
Regards
Ian Jurd
Cardiff South NSW Australia
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If you have any
information which could help please e-mail details to
ianjurd@bigpond.com |
CAN YOU HELP
We have this photo
of a house in our family album and do not know where it is. Some of
the family come from Over so we wondered whether anyone recognise
the house at all? Is it, or was it in Over?
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If you have any
information which could help please e-mail details to
contact@overvillage.co.uk
(Details will be
passed on) |
RSPB Guided Walk
Neil Renwick 'Community Projects Officer - RSPB Fen Drayton Lakes
nature reserve.
Fen Drayton Lakes, for May 2008
Work on the replacement viewing
screens and path surfaces was held up by wet conditions in late
March, but by the time you are reading this, we hope that the
work will have been completed without further delays.
Contractors who are creating wet
patches in the areas between Ferry Lagoon and the River Great
Ouse were also held up by the wet weather, but their project is
expected to take much longer. These wet patches will help birds
that breed in wet grassland, such as redshanks and yellow
wagtails, to rear chicks in years to come.
Our warden and volunteers will be
kept busy installing directional signs, to help people find
their way around.
Wading birds were quick to show
interest in the recently bared islands on Elney and Moore Lakes:
ringed and little ringed plovers, lapwings and oystercatchers.
At the time of writing, it is too early to say if they will
settle down and nest, but you can visit at any time and try to
spot some, or join a guided walk. The roller-coaster flight of
displaying lapwings, accompanied by their whooping calls, is a
joy to watch.
April and May are exciting times,
as migrant birds arrive to breed here, or just stop off for a
break on their journey further north. Each day seems to be
different – newly arrived birds singing and trying to establish
territories amongst the established ones; flowers coming into
bloom, butterflies, bees and dragonflies flying on warm days,
the first of the year’s baby birds leaving their nests.
As we go through May, the last of
the migrant birds arrive – spotted flycatchers, turtle doves and
swifts are typically the last species, and resident birds will
have chicks already leaving their nests. Look out for robins
and blackbirds feeding begging offspring with worms and
caterpillars, while swans, geese and ducks escort their downy
youngsters. Cygnets, goslings and ducklings must feed
themselves, instinctively pecking at anything that might be
edible, but they depend on their parents to guard them from
potential predators and to brood them in cold weather.
You can help the birds nesting in
your garden by making sure that food and water are always
available. This means the adult birds can quickly get their own
food, giving them more time to search for the caterpillars and
other small creatures that the growing chicks need. Regularly
watering a small patch of lawn or soil will encourage worms, and
the blackbirds and thrushes that feed on them.
Events at Fen Drayton Lakes are listed on
the RSPB web site at
http://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/f/fendraytonlakes/events.asp,
We have two mid-week guided walks
this month, and these will begin from the small car park on the
south-east corner of Elney Lake, closest to Fen Drayton village,
sign-posted for disabled visitors.
Wetland walkabout
Wednesday 7 and Thursday 15 10am-12.30pm
We will look for spring wildlife
on these walks, hoping to hear cuckoos and seeing butterflies on
fine days. Adults £3, children £1, RSPB members half price.
Meet at Elney Lake car park.
If your community group would like a guided visit for a summer
evening, please ask.
Neil Renwick, Community Projects
Officer, T: 01954 233267,
E:
neil.renwick@rspb.org.uk.
Our address is RSPB Fens Area
Office, The Grange, 20 Market Street, Swavesey, Cambridgeshire
CB24 4QG.
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Contact: Neil
Renwick
Community Projects Officer
RSPB Fen Drayton Lakes nature reserve,
T:
01954 233267
M: 07739 921459
e-mail: neil.renwick@rspb.org.uk
www.rspb.org.uk |
East Anglia's Children's Hospices
East Anglia's Children's Hospices
(EACH) offers a range of services to support children and young
people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions and their
families.
Care and support is provided within the hospices, the family home
and in other settings.
In 2006/07 it will cost around £4million to continue this work and
with only around 10% of this funding coming from statutory sources,
voluntary income is absolutely vital.
EACH have hospices at Quidenham (Norfolk), Ipswich and Milton
(Cambs)
For further information, please contact the EACH
fundraising office on 01223 205180 or funding@each.org.uk |
For
further details please visit the Website.
Click
here
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Evacuee - 1939 I
enjoyed viewing the
history of Over and the photos on the website. The village of Over
has
always been a great part of my families life. The last time I
visited was
back in the seventies and that was the last time I saw Ernie
Papworth. I knew
him very well in the war time as my brother and I were billeted with
his
uncle and aunt Frank and Ethel Parish in Overcote Road. We, my three
sisters, my cousin and my brother and I first came to Over in
September 1939, at that
time we were living in a slum area of Islington. The people in Over
were
great, it must have been a shock all these scruffy kids in the
church hall. Mr
and Mrs Parish were very good to us and when we went back to London
in 1943
we never lost touch. They had a son Jack who married a girl from
Needingworth but I never saw him as I think he moved there. If
anyone can put
me in touch with him or his family I would be grateful, One of my
sisters
lived with the Day family on the corner of the High Road near the
green, the
other two lived with a Mr and Mrs Webb, my cousin lived with the
Marshalls
at the shop in the high road. The names I remember are the Leggets,
Normans,
Thodays, Sheerings.
if any one would like to get in
touch with me I live in Essex and my phone number is 01268-754065
Thank you
John Ace
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if any
one would like to get in touch with me I live in Essex and my phone
number is 01268-754065 Thank
You
John Ace |
Tutor
Private tuition provided by high qualified &
experience KS1/2 teacher |
For more
information or to book sessions, please call
Sue Tucker - 01954 202056
or
E-mail
suetucker_5@hotmail.com |
ANSA
Arts
News Swavesey and Area
See
the latest
Summer
issue of the community arts newsletter for the Swavesey area.
Recently a new website,
www.southcambsarts.org.uk
has gone live. The website is designed to provide residents of
South Cambridgeshire
a space to find out about arts activities happening in their areas.
Gillian
Hunter
Arts Development Manager
Swavesey
Village
College
01954 234476 |
Click
below to see latest issue.
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UNEARTHING
THE PAST
Stepping back through
TIME |
The Over
Monuments Group at Hanson's Needingworth Quarry. Visit the website.
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Looking
for War-Time Family
I've been contacted by the son of a former
prisoner of war who, while at Trumpington in 1945-46, did some work
on a water supply pipeline at Over Fen. He is very keen to make
contact with a family he met then, particularly one of the
daughters, called Doris. The other children were Tom, Jesse, Mary
and Kathleen. I've put a photo of the family (taken about 1948) on
my website at
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/haslatter/doris.htm
. If you recognise them, or know someone who might, please let me
know at haslatter@ntlworld.com . Many thanks.
Howard Slatter
Cambridge, England |
Contact details:
Howard Slatter
Cambridge, England
haslatter@ntlworld.com
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It’s
Here !!
Over has it’s own
Skate Park located on the New Recreation ground near the all
weathers surface.
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If you
are interested in finding out about this project, click below
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It's
play time............ for the under 12's
Over's
super-duper play
area for the under 12's on the
Recreation Ground is ready for you to play on. |
If you
are interested in finding out about this project, click below
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THE
CENTRE AT OVER
Your Community Centre
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To find
out more on what the Centre has to offer please call the Centre on
01954 206600 or
Click below to visit the website.
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LOCAL
POLICE INFORMATION
The police are aware
that some crimes and incidents occur and that these are NOT being
reported because the victims believe that these crimes will not be investigated
and/or detected.
The police STRONGLY urge you to report ALL incidents of crime and
anti-social behaviour - this information is essential to the police
who need to be aware of problems within the village. |
Parkside
Police Station
01223 358966
Beat Officer:
Alison Jones - 01223 823730
e-mail
alison.jones@cambs.pnn.police.uk |
ALL
OVER PARISHIONERS
Please make every effort to keep all trees,
bushes, hedges etc., trimmed so that they do not make paths narrower
or obstruct the view of motorists.
Dog owners carry on using the dog bins - it has made a difference to
the paths, thank you. Those who do not use the dog
bins - please do so, it's your village too, help to keep it clean. |
Chairman
Over Parish Council |
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BOOK TRACES LOCAL FAMILY HISTORY OVER FOUR AND A HALF CENTURIES
Bicheno, a family from Over,
Cambridgeshire, is a new work that traces the history of a family
back to 1558 – a family centred on Over, Cambridgeshire, but which
had strong links with many nearby villages and towns such as
Elsworth, Cottenham, St Ives and Cambridge and as far afield as the
USA and Tasmania, where there is a town and a bird named after it.
The authors are Jean Nelson and Eileen Webster, who are both
connected to the extended Bicheno family.
They have taken the combined contents of two documents they created
about a decade ago and have brought the information up to date by
adding newly-found data and have also corrected some of the
references found by delving into the Public Records offices in
Cambridge and London, wills, manorial and church records and rarer
ones such as the old hearth tax.
“The curious thing is that today there isn’t anyone named
Bicheno living in Over or Elsworth, though there is at least one
family in Cottenham, one in Cambridge and one in Melbourn, near
Royston,” said Eileen Webster.
The furthest back that Jean Nelson and Eileen Webster have been able
to trace the family is to William Bychenor, who died in 1558 and
left a will that showed he was a husbandman (that is, a farmer) who
had three daughters and a son. William’s brother John died in 1587
and his cousin William in 1601.
The name had many variants over the years including Beecheno,
Bichener, Bickeno, Brecheno, Brichener, Bricheno, Brichenoe,
Britchener, Brichenor, Brichiner, Britchenor and Bychener.
The name Bicheno seems to stem from the lost place name Byccenho or
Birchenhoe, meaning land with beech trees on it by a river, on the
borders of Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire. The river there is
a tributary of the River Great Ouse, which today forms the northern
boundary of Over parish. So it seems that the name Bicheno came
‘down the river’ to Over.
Today, whilst there is no-one named Bicheno living in or near Over
there are people living in the village who are descended from the
family. Eileen Webster is the granddaughter of Hephzibah Kirby,
whose mother Lucy Bicheno married William Kirby in 1854, and John
Doggett.
Jean Nelson is the three-times great granddaughter of Hemington
Bicheno, one of Lucy’s nine brothers.
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The
book is available from Eileen Webster at 1 Longstanton Road, Over,
telephone (01954) 230839 for £16 plus £1.50 post and packing |
Manart
Landscaping and Property Services
We are a
small, honest and reliable Over based company.
Constructionline registered, we are your ideal contact for
all types of work inside and out; including: fencing, patios,
driveways, garden clearances and alterations, hedge trimming,
tiling and any number of other services.
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If you would like a free quotation
for any work please call
Andy Smart
01954 202242
Mobile
07813
071192
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Church and
Town Lands Charity, Over
A Registered Charity
Town Hall Bookings
Local Groups & Societies only £2
Local Family Parties £7.50 (3 hours)
Commercial or Business Use £5 per hour. |
For details
on charges & availability contact
Miss Natalie Hawketts Tel: 01954 230412
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Natural
Health
Orthopaedic pillows as recommended by physiotherapists
You will find me under Trade
and Services - Natural Health |
For
advice and price please contact:
julie@jryder.co.uk.
www.jryder.co.uk |
OVER
NETBALL CLUB
Like to play Netball - Come and join Over Netball Club - All standards
welcome.
Weekly on Wednesday Evenings from 7.30pm
AT
SWAVESEY VILLAGE COLLEGE |
If you would
like to know more please call.
Sheila on
01954 202313 |
TOUCH
RUGBY
Come and join us
for a sociable hour of Touch Rugby on Wednesday Evenings
9-10pm at the Community Centre
Absolutely no talent required
All shapes and sizes welcome |
If you would
like to know more please call.
Andy Jones on 01954 201788 or Tom Ashworth on 07974 449431
or visit the website
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CYCLING CLUB
New Cycling Club for
people in local villagers
Come and join us |
If you would
like to know more please call.
Tom Ashworth on 07974 449431 or visit the website
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BADMINTON
We will be running two weekly
sections on Tuesdays 8-11pm and Thursday 9-11pm at the Community Centre |
If you would
like to know more please call.
Jacky Miller on 01954 202361 |
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Over Gardening Club
If you
would like an information sheet about the club and details of our Annual
Competitions please contact us.
Anyone interested in gardening is
welcome - no need to be an expert! |
If you would like further
information please call
Pam Allars
01954 202024 |
OVER YOUTH CLUB
Over Community Centre
All
young people aged 11-17 welcome from 7.00 till
9.00pm.
(THURSDAYS Only)
New Members always welcome.
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For more
information please contact
Charlotte Medcalf Youth Worker
Mobile
07917 040502
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Freddie & Friends New Orleans Jazz
Band HOT JAZZ & GREAT ENTERTAINMENT for all
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Freddie
Whipp
01954 203607
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Centre
12.00am till 11.00pm - Mon to Sat + 12noon till 10.30pm Sunday.
Office
9.30am to 5.00pm - Mon to Fri
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below to visit the website.
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here
or
Call the Centre on
01954 206600 |
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