Category: Hindon: Gleanings

Saturday 28th September 2024

Stay And Play – Brambles, Hindon

Thursday 3rd October 2024 – 3.30 pm.

We are very excited to offer Stay and Play at our award winning Brambles Hindon. Only 15 minutes from Morrisons roundabout in Warminster!

Come and discover this Ofsted Outstanding setting. Parents/carers and their children will be able to explore and play in our gardens. We will offer a healthy snack and drink. Older siblings are welcome. This event is free of charge and spaces are very limited!

To book a space, please email Laura Ross on admissions@bramblesoutdoorgroup.co.uk

Monday 4th November 2013

Police are investigating a forced entry into a barn at Hindon. Nothing was taken.

From 25th June to 29th June 2012, the Village Stores in Hindon will be hosting a food tasting week as part of the celebrations for Community Shops Fortnight. People are invited to sample many different items from the store’s extensive range of locally-sourced produce. A different variety of food will also be promoted each day. Hindon Village Stores opened in September 2009, one year after the launch of “Save Our Shop” campaign.

For further details about the food tasting week at Hindon telephone Mandy Warren, 01747 820366 or email: info@hindonvillagestores.co.uk

Friday 11th May 2012

The scale of charges for the Village Hall, at Hindon, are

Meetings ~ local residents, £7.00; non-residents, £10.00

Classes ~ £10.00

Charity Coffee Mornings, etc. ~ £15.00

All Day Hire (Non-commercial – bazaars etc.) ~ £20.00

Parties ~ £45.00

Children’s Parties (afternoon) ~ £25.00

The use of electrical equipment in the kitchen, other than a kettle, will be subject to a surcharge.

Key Holders:
Mrs. P. Foster (Lettings Officer), Chatfields, The Dene, Hindon, telephone 01747 820445.
Mrs. D. Potts, Conifers, The Dene, Hindon.
Mrs. R. Roe, Casa Rosa, The Dene, Hindon.
Miss G. Fairfax-Cholmely, 4 The Dene, Hindon.
Village Shop (in emergency).

From The Wylye Valley Life magazine, No.24, Friday 19th April 1985:

On The House At Hindon

Although it was April Fool’s Day, there was no trickery in the offer of free drinks for the locals when the Grosvenor Arms in Hindon re-opened. The inn, an old coaching one, has been closed for the few months for redecoration.

The doors were re-opened in style on April 1st with a ribbon strung across the entrance. Proprietor Mr. Christopher Nell joined the new manager and manageress, Alan Douglas Williams and his wife Susan, serving behind the double-sided bar.

Not only did the locals get a free drink of beer or wine and also refreshments, they were able to try the new Hindon Brew, a special from Wadsworths.

Mr. Williams, who is a Hindoner, returned to the village with his wife to take over the management. His grandparents, Ralph and Agnes Tomlinson, cut the opening ribbon at the doorway and Ralph announced that it was 42 years since he supped his first pint at the Grosvenor.

The pub has seen a total redecoration, carpetting, and new furniture, and plans for a new kitchen and toilet facilities are in hand.

From the Wylye Valley Life magazine, Issue No.23, Friday 5 April 1985:

Members of Hindon Parish Council have decided to ask Mr. Robert Key, the Salisbury Conservative MP, to press for a revision of some of the proposals in the Government’s new drug laws.

Council members are concerned that people in rural areas will be effected by the limit to be made on the range of drugs that can be prescribed under the National Health Service.

Members of the Council feel that the new proposals will effect those living in scattered country communities, who are unable to get to chemist shops easily.

From the Wylye Valley Life magazine, Issue No.23, Friday 5 April 1985:

The Hindon Parish Meeting which was held last month was attended by County Councillor John Underwood who announced that he would not be standing for re-election. He was thanked for all the help he had given during his time in office.

Major repair work to the road in The Dene was scheduled by Wiltshire County Council for the current financial year but the County Surveyor had said that the provision of footways on the B3089 between Quoins and the Old Police House and also at Stop Hill could not be included in the present programme due to the general curtailment of funds.

From the Wylye Valley Life magazine, issue No.21, Friday 8th March 1985:

Planning Application, Hindon
Mr J.W. Ridley at Meadowbrook House, The Dene; for replacement of existing dwelling with a new dwelling.

View to the crossroads in Hindon, where the road to Fonthill Bishop crosses Hindon High Street. Circa 1905.

A postcard picture, circa 1905, showing the Lamb Inn at Hindon. The sign on the gable end shows it is an Ushers of Trowbridge public house, vending their ales, but the horsedrawn cart, to the right, loaded with barrels, is signwritten “Bartlett & Co., Warminster.” Bartlett’s Brewery was at the High Street, Warminster.