Diamond Jubilee Celebrations

Morchard Bishop will be celebrating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in style!

The Jubilee Programme has now been finalised as follows:

Easter weekend 6th, 7th and 8th April
A fund raising Jubilee Darts Challenge at the London Inn organised by Julien Rice

Saturday 28th April
A fund raising Hoe Down at Memorial Hall organised by our Village Fund Raising Group (the last Hoe Down was a huge success and raised over £1000 for the Devon Air Ambulance appeal)

Jubilee Weekend, 1st June to 5th June
"Best Dressed House" competition with a prize being provided by The Morchard Messenger. The judging will be carried out by Cllr. Michael Lee.
- Sunday 3rd June
Jubilee Walk organised by Julie Rudge followed by Cream Teas at Emmanuel Church
Monday 4th June (official Jubilee celebration day)
- Church Bells at 10.30am and 12.30 pm
- Church Service at 11am including the Coronation of the Jubilee 'King and Queen' children from our village school.
- Street Party in Church Street from 12.30pm to 3pm
- Procession to the Playing Fields led by the Jubilee 'King and Queen' in a horse drawn carriage kindly being provided by Benford Horse Drawn Carriages of Higher Parks. The procession will include decorated bikes, buggies, wheelbarrows and anything else that can be pushed!
- The procession will be accompanied by the Morchard Bishop Ukelele Band trailer and Tony Sparrow's vintage Lagonda
- Games for children from 3.30pm onwards
- BBQ at the Playing Fields 3.30pm to 7.00pm
- Dance in Memorial Hall to 50s/60s music by Full Moon Fever 8.00pm onwards
- Approx 10.20pm, lighting of the beacon on the Church Tower.

Jubilee Commemoration Mugs have been ordered and will be given to all Morchard Bishop children Junior School age and under.

Meetings are held regularly to plan and organise this event.. Minutes of these meetings are available for everyone to read and download from the Parish Council area of this web site. The next meeting is shown under the Key Events on this page. .

Everyone is invited to join in and help this village celebration. Come along to our meetings and be a part of the 'team'!

YOUR VILLAGE NEEDS YOU: AS TEAM LEADER FOR THE
STREET PARTY AND/OR THE PROCESSION
Volunteer now, before it’s too late!

Flower Festival 2011

To view photogrphs of June's Flower Festival click here

Footpaths around Morchard Bishop and ...
Walking Maps

With over 40 footpaths, Morchard Bishop has one the highest number of public footpaths of any Parish in Devon. The walks available are very varied in length, difficulty and vistas.

The Parish Paths Partnerships Scheme (P3 for short) is an initiative to ensure that the entire rights of way network is legally defined, properly maintained and well publicised. It has the support of the National Association of Local Councils and is government funded. The Devon County Council was one of the first fifteen Highway Authorities to participate in this scheme, which encourages community involvement and enjoyment of public rights of way. Devon County Council is working in partnership with Parish/Town Councils, landowners and local voluntary groups. The main aim is to improve the condition of the local rights of way and keep them open and used properly.Parish/Town Councils in the scheme receive a grant to undertake rights of way work.

The grant, paid by Devon County Council, covers three elements -
i) The mileage, based on the length of rights of way in theParish
ii) Special projects, and
iii) Administrative costs.

Path condition survey and inspection
Each year before the Parish/Town Council receives its annual grant it organises a survey -
This is an assessment of the condition of the rights of way, in order to find out what work needs to be done.
The survey provides the information necessary for calculation of the grant payment.
Developments and improvements - upgrading and re-opening paths by undertaking practical work such as vegetation clearance, repairing stiles and waymarking, in consultation with farmers and landowners;
Events - helping people to feel confident about using the network by organising, for example, guided walks and rights of way days;
Publicity and promotion - letting people know about the availability of the rights of way network through, for example, leaflets or map boards. This is a final stage, reflecting the improved condition of the path network.

The Parish Paths Liaison Officer operates the scheme - and for the Morchard Bishop Parish our P3 Officer is Julie Rudge. (see also the Local Artists section on this web site)

Julie regularly organises walks in the Parish, usually taking about 2 - 3 hours. The walks are leisurely and for all ability levels. They are a fantasitic way of getting know your local areas, the beauty that is the Devon countryside - and also your walking companions. The walks are publicised regularly in the Morchard Messenger and the accompanying hand drawn maps are available from Julie (tel 01363 877528) or can be downloaded from this web site.

To go to the walks maps click here

The Devon County Council web section on Public Rights of Way can be accessed by clicking here

An excellent interactive footpaths GIS (Geographic Information System) map for Devon can be accessed clicking here You can zoom into any area of Devon to see the local footpaths and bridleways

Morchard Bishop and Broadband

The section on the change from a Broadband website to the Morchard Bishop Website is being retained for those who still need to reference this section.

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Similarly the advice section on how to obtain Broadband has been retained.

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