Charfield Community Website
Charfield is a village in South Gloucestershire, England. We are north of Bristol and south of Gloucester, right on the Gloucestershire border. Have a look on this map to see where we are.
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New for 2017: You can now upload your own photos to the Gallery. Have a look and start posting all your photos of our wonderful village. Let's build an archive of people and places!
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Upcoming Events at the Hall
Wednesday 23rd August :
DRU YOGA AND RELAXATION
Wednesday 30th August :
DRU YOGA AND RELAXATION
Wednesday 6th September :
DRU YOGA AND RELAXATION
Voluntary Vacancy: Financial Trustee/Treasurer
Charfield Memorial Hall is looking for a new volunteer Financial Trustee to oversee the work of our Financial Administrator.
You will NOT be handling any of the day to day financial issues/management, this role is strictly to oversee/support our paid Financial Administrator who does all of this day to day work.
As a member of the committee you will also take an active role in decision making at bi-monthly meetings, and in the development of the Village Hall as a central community hub.
To express an interest in either of these roles please contact Liam now on 07496 862532 or liam.balloch@gmail.com.
New BBC Game Show Seeking Contestants!
If anyone would like to take part or if they’d just like a bit more info then they can get in touch with the team on TheButton@avalon-entertainment.com / 0207 598 7297 and request an application form.
Old ITV programme about the Charfield Railway Crash 1928
Locals sharing memories at the Railway Tavern Pub in Charfield. People interviewed: Mrs Hazel, then "Jibby' Jones, then Reginald Pagett.
Thanks to Graham Tyndall for sharing this with us.
"It was broadcast on ITV many years ago and they kindly sent me a video of the program.
My father is in the video talking about the lady in black and the children's shoes. He worked on the railway in Charfield as a Ganger and we lived in a cottage just below the Plough Inn.
When the cottages were demolished we moved to Charfield Green on the corner right next to the railway line."
More information about the disaster.
More information about Charfield Railway Station.
Touch Rugby - keep fit on the Charfield Playing Fields!
Touch Rugby is a fantastic sport for keeping fit and allows men & women of all abilities to take to the field together.
You don't have to have had any rugby experience at all to play. It's also great fun!
We play on a Monday night from 6:30pm until 7:30pm, at the Charfield Playing Fields behind the Village Hall.
Please text 07970853871 if you're interested and we'll put you on the list for session updates.
Please click here for more information on www.dursleyrfc.co.uk.
From the Gallery
Summer 1956: Remodelling of track layout through Charfield, showing the railway station and goods shed (Ron Perry)
Upcoming Events
- Mon 21 Wotton-under-Edge Town Council : Wotton-under-Edge Town Council meeting will ...
- Mon 21 Touch Rugby at Charfield : Touch Rugby is a fantastic sport for keeping fit ...
- Tue 22 Wotton Memory Group : Whether you have a diagnosis of dementia, are a carer, ...
- Wed 23 Baby Cafe : Baby Café is an informal meeting place for parents, grandparents ...
- Wed 23 DRU YOGA AND RELAXATION : ***2 Classes/New times*** Dru Yoga and Relaxation ...
Local Organisations:
The CHADRA Archive is now complete!
The digital archive of CHADRA is now 100% complete!
This immense project was started in 2010 and we are very grateful for Brendan O'Connor's hard work.
Note that only newsletters that are a year old are archived here. To read up-to-date news, please get on the distribution list.
Care About Your Community?
Please support the Village Hall by coming along to one of our fundraising events, joining the committee, or making a donation via JUSTTEXTGIVING.
Charfield Village Plan 2011 – 2021
UPDATED May 2014
The Charfield Village Plan and associated documents have now been published!
» Click here to read them in full.
Charfield Wartime Memories of Kathleen Wilcock
"What the inhabitants of Charfield made of all this he did not say." - Kathleen Wilcock, 2013.
Latest Headlines from the Gazette Series
Wotton-under-Edge Community Agent
Gloucestershire Village and Community Agents offer help and support for people over 50 and help bridge the gap between statutory and voluntary agencies.
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The Spitfire
Have you heard the story about how a Spitfire came to be rebuilt in Charfield?
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Memories of Charfield
"Whilst in the mood I have edited my 'family edition' of my "Memories" just to include the Charfield bits." - Valerie Sibley, 2009.
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The Old Post Office
Where was the old Post Office? Valerie Sibley lets us know, and shares some childhood memories.
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South west adventurer achieves the explorers' 'Grand Slam'
Newall Hunter has become only the second Briton and the fourteenth person in the world to achieve the coveted explorers' Grand Slam
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Door in the Wall - An Original Story Set In Wotton
Copyright 2016. Elizabeth Kirwan. All Rights Reserved.
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Wotton in Bloom 2016
For the sixth year running Wotton in Bloom will be decorating the main streets of Wotton-under-Edge with hanging baskets and troughs full of flowers.
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