Hougham, Lincolnshire NG32 2JD

Village web site

Hougham is located 2 miles from the A1, 8 miles from Grantham, 9 miles from Newark, 28 miles from Nottingham, 20 miles from Lincoln and 120 miles from London. Grantham is on the East Coast line and London is under an hour and a half away by train.

Please note:

This website will not be updated until the last week in February 2012 due to the Webmaster being on holiday

Notices

The bus service has been replaced by CallConnect 

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Millstream Butchers visits Hougham on a Wednesday at about 1130 am and stops outside Rose Cottage. Please use the service or we will lose it.

Deliveries and preorders can be made at the website

or 01529 414638

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Mike's Quality Grimsby Fish

Thursday 0920 am

07763 388397

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Dairy Crest Milk

plus a large array of other products

01476 563733

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The mobile Library calls once a month 1530 to 1600 by the post box.

Dates

BT Race to Infinity and faster broadband speeds

If you go to

http://bit.ly/9EYdzC

and vote we may be able to get some faster speed on the Internet.

Despite the ads by BT we have less than 1000 users on the exchange apparently so don't qualify to get super fast broadband but even so we may get some improvement. So please pass it on to all you know in the area.

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Hougham

Parish Council minutes updated November 11

The village and church

pictures of the village

Lincolnshire Walks - Marston & Hougham

 

 

Thorold Arms Public House

 

 

Marston Village website

Hough Parish

Grantham Rural North Neighbourhood Policing Team

 

www.walk4life.info

The Walk4Life website is totally FREE and has thousands of walk ideas all over the country. The website uses OS maps which can easily be printed out at home so is proving really popular. People can also keep a track of the walks they have done and set themselves a target!

 

 

 

 

Regular events

 

Book club

 The book for discussion on 30th January will be The Black House' by Peter May.

The book after that is Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris

If interested contact Bernadette Chalklin 01400 250768 07904083274 BChalklin@AOL.com or turn up on the day.

It is not intellectually demanding – just an excuse to have a coffee, tea or cake at the Pub.

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The Luncheon Club will reform on the first Tuesday of each month, starting on Tuesday next week, 1 November at the Thorald Arms.
If you wish to attend please let Kim know, ideally by Sunday on 01400 250899. Food will be served from 12.30 pm.
For anyone wondering what the Luncheon Club is, it is simply an informal get together each month. There is no membership, no rules, and everyone is welcome, but it would help Kim greatly if you were to tell her in advance that you were coming.
 
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theThorold Arms @ Marston

QUIZ NIGHT

Every other Sunday at 8.30 pm

Entry £1.

All proceeds to charity, currently the Village Hall refurbishment.

Future Dates                   Quizmaster                      

 

15 January                             Bernie Chalklin

Volunteer quizmasters required.

Funds raised to date, ie 2 July – 6 November, total £165

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Women's Institute

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Grantham Young Farmers' Club

 meetings at our Village Hall

Full details on the Marston Website

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Hougham and Marston Local History Group - Village Hall - Monthly 2nd Tuesday

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Peter Connolly and others have formed Marston Karate Club which will meet in Hougham and Marston Village Hall on Wednesday evenings. If you have family or friends who might be interested in joining please visit the Marston village website for more information, or call Peter on 250711.

Village News

Just born Jacob lambs in the village - 12th March 2011

Pictures of the Music Concert in Hougham Church

Scarecrow Festival Results

Pictures from Teas on the Green 2009

Pictures from Teas on the Green 2010

 

This is a message specifically for those with field electric fencing (field-such as for sheep and horses).

We are experiencing all over but more especially around the A15/A17/A52 area (Sleaford rural) thefts of electric fencing, energisers and batteries from fields with sheep and other livestock within. Obviously it is very easy to spot such fencing and all too often very easy for our criminals to pull in a stop, walk or even drive to where the batteries and energisers are located and take them.

This is in itself a risk to road users as it leaves the animals with no live barrier to prevent them straying.

The other hinderance is the cost of replacement of said items often amounting to £200-300 a time.

Advice at this time is to securely clamp the batteries and energisers within a box of some sort, cement the energiser into a lump that makes them harder to lift and walk away with, possibly even incorporating a bike lock to wrap around the battery. Paint or otherwise mark the batteries and energisers with something that will make them more un-atractive along with name of owner stamped or otherwise marked upon them. we need to make the items as unsellable as possible.

record the make model and serial numbers elsewhere. and other than on the items.

Fencing is a little more difficult to deal with. however a can of spray paint of your colour of choice will suitably mark the wire (in spots) and the posts to be able to identify them later.

If all this fails and yours is taken, call and tell us about it please. we need to know where they are going from..

likewise if you have info as to who may be selling these then tell us.

Martin Green (Police, CBM NC36 Sleaford Rural South, Sleaford Station)

Reports updated 21 December

Village adverts

Soothing Hands - Bowen therapy in Hougham

The Roseland Flock of Jacob Sheep

Lamb freezers packs and cuts of meat are available. Lambs are sometimes for sale.

Stylish individual Jacob rugs and Fleeces


The Hougham & Marston Heating Oil Syndicate got off the ground on 9 February when at around 35 villagers attended a meeting in the Village Hall organised by Alistair Ross. 

Just a reminder that the closing date for oil orders is this coming Sunday. We will currently be ordering over 15,000 litres. If you'd like to be included in the next order please let me know.
After this order, the next one will be in early March.
  For more information and an application form e-mail lincolnshireoil@gmail.com or call Alistair Ross on 251355 or click on the link below

Application form                  FAQs

The Office of Fair Trading has recently completed a detailed study into "Off Grid Energy" which includes domestic heating oil and LPG. The report was triggered as a result of the huge increase in heating oil prices in December 2010. Our oil syndicate contributed to this report, as did our MP.
In summary, the report found that:
- the industry is competitive and that December 2010's price increases were as a result of supply and demand rather than profiteering.
- the margins made by the oil companies are reasonable, but their margins are generally higher in winter than in summer (worth noting when placing orders)
- some so-called "price comparison sites" were misleading as they were owned by oil companies themselves. Action has already been taken to change this under Competition regulations
- some oil companies were charging a different price on delivery to the price quoted. This has been addressed and one oil company has already been taken to court by a local council.

Ideas for or information about the village website, contact me through the link at the bottom of the page.

I am going to offer personal email addresses with money to the village church for example name@hougham.info or business@hougham.info

I am also open to placing adverts for local business on the website as well for a small fee - church and village funds


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last updated 8/01/12