Category: South Newton: Gleanings

Peace Memorial Bungalows, South Newton

Monday 2nd January 2023

From the website of South Newton and Stoford Parish Council:

Peace Memorial Bungalows – South Newton

Something you may not know about South Newton – it has 2 Almshouses.

These 2 bedroomed bungalows were built in 1946 and are managed by the Salisbury City Almshouse and Welfare Charities (Registered Charity No: 204483) with 5 voluntary Trustees drawn from South Newton residents.

Almshouse residents make a contribution towards the cost of maintenance and are responsible for utility bills and council tax. The weekly maintenance contribution is eligible for Housing Benefit, thus ensuring that no one need be financially embarrassed on becoming an almshouse resident.

The criteria for occupation are:
Have been born in or a resident of South Newton for at least 10 years.
Be of good character with a low income

Currently, both Almshouses are occupied.  When a vacancy occurs it will be initially advertised on this website and in the Parish Magazine.  Should there be no response then further advertisements will be placed in Valley News and the Salisbury Journal.  Exceptionally, if no South Newton resident applies or is deemed suitable, then applicants from a wider area may be considered.

South Newton & Wishford Village Hall For Hire

Friday 18th March 2016

South Newton & Wishford Village Hall
Hall For Hire
Telephone 01722 743577

South Newton & Wishford Village Hall,
Warminster Road, South Newton, SP2 0QW. 

Large hall with well equipped kitchen 
in the Wylye Valley. 

Car-parking, with access onto A36. 

Disabled access and accessible toilet. 

Adjacent to large recreation ground, 

playground and multi-use games area. 

WiFi connection available.

Photographs taken by Danny Howell
on Friday 18th March 2016.

South Newton & Stoford Parish Council Meeting

South Newton & Stoford Parish Council Meeting

Wednesday 3rd September, 2014 at 7.30 p.m.

The Agenda for the next Parish Council meeting is set out below and will remain fixed if no other matters are presented to the Clerk. 

AGENDA
1. Apologies
2.  Minutes of meeting held on 13th August, 2014
3.  Any matters arising:
      a) Stoford Cut Layby – Storage
      b) Yellow lines in car park at South Newton
      c)  Light outside South Newton & Wishford Village Hall
      d)  Footpaths between Chilhampton to bridges at Wilton
      e)  South Newton Estate curbs – clumps of weed and grass.
      f)   Styles at South Newton
      g)  Re-painting of 30 m.p.h. sign Stoford.
      h)  Drain A283/A36 junction
      i)   Obscured sign to Trading Estate South Newton
      j)   Drainage trench on footpath to Great Wishford
      k)  Subsidence problems – footpath to South Newton and Wishford Village Hall
      l)   Compactor for South Newton Trading Estate
4.  Wiltshire Councillor’s Report – Cllr Peter Edge
5.  Area Board
6.  Standing Agenda items
     a)  Accidents
     b)  i) Declaration of interests  ii) Planning Matters 
     c)  Rights of way 
     d)  Environmental/amenities
     e)  Website
     f)  A36/C283
7.  Finance
     b) Payment to Clerk
8) Village Hall
9. Councillor’s Reports
10. Correspondence

South Newton And Stoford Village Fete

The South Newton & Stoford Village Fete will be held on Saturday 14th July 2012, and will be a celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Items are required for all the various stalls including bric-a-brac, cds, books, plants, cakes, toiletries and jewellery. Information about the collection points for these items can be obtained from Rosemary Shickle, telephone 01722 742098, or Heather Bonsey, telephone 01722 790363. Helpers are also needed on the day of the fete, for preparing beforehand and for clearing away afterwards.

South Newton And Wishford Village Hall

Wednesday 23rd May 2012

South Newton and Wishford Village Hall is available for hire for functions, meetings, parties, dances, wedding receptions, etc. Caters for 120 seated, 240 standing. Brand new, fully-fitted kitchen, recently installed. Large car park adjoining the hall. Children’s play area and multi-surface areas also available to hirers of the hall. Competitive rates for hiring. For further details please contact Michael Plowman, telephone 01722 790113 (home); 07777 610860 (mobile); or email: mjplowman@btinternet.com

Fulling At South Newton (Wiltshire And Somerset Woollen Mills)

K.H. Rogers, in Wiltshire And Somerset Woollen Mills, published by the Pasold Research Fund Ltd., in 1976, noted:

South Newton
In 1814 two pairs of fulling stocks on a good stream at South Newton were advertised to let. They no doubt stood in the corn mill, as is suggested by an earlier reference (1720) to a miller and fuller in the village.

Wilts. Record Society, xvii, 21;
SJ, 15.8.1814.

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