Welcome to Hemyock, Anonymous Friday, December 26 2025 @ 05:26 am UTC
At the start of Lent a short service of Holy Communion will be held at St Mary's at 11.30 today with a service at 7pm at St Andrews, Clayhidon and All Saints, Culmstock at 7p.m
Devon County Council has issued its latest Travelling in Winter 2012/2013 brochure.
Please click here to view.
The villages of Hemyock, Clayhidon and Culmstock are twinned with a similar group of villages on the River Loire in France.
An urgent appeal has been launched to supply new pencils and small packets of pencil crayons for a school in Syria where teachers are trying to educate around 5000 refugee children in shifts of 100. The school is built of breeze blocks covered with a tarpaulin and there is no equipment at all.
The appeal has been launched by the wife of the Bishop of Stepney, who has visited the area, and it is hoped a parcel will be sent to her from the Upper Culm Valley. week beginning 18th February.
If you would like to make a donation of pencils/crayons please email jbawler1947@hotmail.co.uk for further details. Alternatively gifts may be left at our house. Thank you
Hemyock WI is growing from strength to strength and we have welcomed several new members this year. We have an entertaining new programme and would welcome even more people to our meetings. Details of our programme appear in the calendar section.
We have recently enjoyed a wine tasting evening and an outing to the theatre to see Starlight Express.
We are not your typical WI so come along and give us a try. We meet on the first Tuesday of each month in the Forbes Lounge at 7.30pm.
Ring Brenda Calcraft 681592 or Lynn Taylor 680104 for more details.
Back by popular demand is our delicious Sausage and Mash Lunch. This will be held in the Parish Hall on February 9th 2013 from 12 noon until 1.30pm. The cost will be £6.00 to include a two course lunch with homemade desserts and tea or coffee.
Please see a member of the WI to book your tickets or ring Lynn Taylor 01823 680104, Brenda Calcraft 01823 681592, Judith Major 01823 680746 or Sandra Featherstone 680036.
Please book your places early as we sold out last time.
Following on from the Everyone Welcome course organised by the Rev David Burton during the Autumn a meeting is to be held at the Church Room tomorrow, Thursday 31st January, at 7.30pm.
It will be of particular interest to all Church Council members, Sidespeople and folk who would wish to have a contribution to the ministry of welcome in the Upper Culm Valley Mission Community churches of Hemyock with Culm Davy, Clayhidon and Culmstock.
Entrepreneurs from Devon and Somerset are being given new opportunities to boost profits and create jobs with game-changing grants of over £10,000 each, the Heart of the South West (HotSW) Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) announced today.
Cloudy but dry for Boxing Day.
A cloudy start for most on Boxing Day, though a dry day, with brighter breaks possible through the afternoon. Another cold day, with a frost reforming overnight. Breezy at times. Maximum temperature 5 °C.
Skies clearing overnight which means it will turn cold with some patchy frost and freezing fog in places. Still breezy around coasts and hills. Minimum temperature -2 °C.
Turning increasingly cloudy through Saturday with some breaks in the cloud to the west of hills. Spots of light rain and drizzle at times. Feeling cold in the easterly wind. Maximum temperature 8 °C.
Turning increasingly cloudy from Saturday with the odd spot of light rain and drizzle over the weekend, though some brighter breaks remain possible. Often breezy, causing it to feel colder.
Updated:
Sourced from the Met Office