September is always a busy month at the Parish Church which begins on Sunday 7th with a short Family Service followed by a Patronal lunch.

The following Sunday Heritge weekend is celebrated with Morning Prayer following the Book of Common Prayer and in the afternoon the Friends of St Mary's will be organising a display titled All Our Yesterdays, and of course there will be delicious teas for sale.  The display will be of 1960's items - if you have anything you would like to offer please phone 680436 asap.

Holy Communion will be celebrated on 21st September at 11.15a.m.

The end of the month sees the village Harvest Festival being enjoyed. FRIDAY 26th is the date for your diary with a service at 7pm when the talk will be given by Rev Tony Grosse,a past Rector of our local churches .This will be followed by a bring and share supper in the Church Room..

The Harvest theme continues on Sunday 28th with the blessing of produce at the 11.15a.m. service.

We do hope that you will be able to join us for some, if not all ,of these special events

 Please click here to see letter from Embrace Group informing of its intention to open a specialist children's home in the New Year in the village.  They will be holding an open meeting on 18th September at 10am in the Parish Hall.

Your Parish Church is seeking donations to install a Memorial Door for the porch at St Mary's and to upgrade the access path.  We are delighted with the response so far and are over halfway to the £10,000 needed but we still need your support to reach our target  Further details are on page 27 of the August/September Parish Pump or inside the church if you would like to make a donation.

With three matches remaining it loks almost certain that Hemyock's cricketers will win promotion from Division 5 of the West Somerset Cricket League. This is the club's third season in the WSCL and, after missing promotion by just two points last year, the team are determined to succeed this time around. They have won eleven of their fifteen matches so far this season with two others rained off. It hasn't been quite as easy as those figures suggest though. For instance, their victory over Milverton last Saturday was achieved by the skin of their teeth. Having dismissed their opponents for just 101, with Richard Drew taking three wickets for eight runs, Hemyock had lost eight wickets before scoring the winning runs, having their captain John Hurley to thank for an excellent innings of 61 not out.

Hemyock need another sixteen points to be certain of promotion and they may come this weekend when they visit Kilve. If not they have two home matches to complete the season versus Crowcombe on Saturday 30th August and Stoke St. Mary on Saturday 6th September. Both home matches start at 2.00 p.m. and spectators are always welcome at the Recreation Ground. That final match could be the championship decider if results go Hemyock's way.

Congratulations on what you have achieved already, and good luck for the final run in.

For the last 6 months a number of people from the valley have been researching the family and service life of those people at the start of the last century who served in the Great War. A book 'The Upper Culm Valley before, during and after The Great War' has been produced and will be launched in the Parish Hall on Tuesday 19th August at 7.30pm. There will be an opportunity to obtain the book at an exibition on Saturday 23rd August, 2-5pm in the Parish Hall where further information and memorabilia will be on show. Refreshments available.

Due to someone leaving the area a new distributor of the Parish Pump will be needed from October to cover High Street/Fore Street.  If you feel this is something you can help with please contact me on 07773579809 asap.  Many thanks, David

Get Up To Speed! 

Click here to find out about free training which may be available to you from Cosmic Peninsula Consortium.

 From the 30th June 2014 South West Highways will be closing a section of the B3391 Main Road Hemyock for resurfacing & Patching works on behalf of Devon County Council; these works should be completed by 2nd July 2014

The diversion will be B3391, A38, Monument Road, Wellington Hill passing Gidlands Cottage, Combe Hill, Road from Pen Cross to Withy Cross, Station Road, Fore Street, B3391 Culmstock Road.  In addition there will be two smaller local diversions as indicated on the attached map in green to maintain access.  

South West Highways would like to apologise in advance for any inconvenience caused by these essential works.  We appreciate your co-operation in this matter and should you have any queries please contact me on 01805 622395.  

Yours faithfully 

T. Cook 

Trevor Cook 

Customer Liaison Officer, SWH Ltd (North & West)