Compton Dando

Away Cricket Match Chew Hedgehogs
2021-05-30 14:30 - 18:00 UTC

Village Coffee Morning - weather permitting on Millennium Green
2021-05-25 10:30 - 12:00 | Centre of Village, Court Hill, Compton Dando, BS39 4JZ
Weather permitting, we are restarting village coffee mornings with an alfresco event on the Millennium Green
Bring a chair please

Home Cricket Match Didmarton
2021-05-23 14:30 - 18:00 | Cricket Pitch

St Mary's Churchyard Working Party
2021-05-22 09:00 - 12:00 | St Mary’s Church, Church Lane, Compton Dando, BS39 4LJ, United Kingdom
Meet in the churchyard, please bring your own tools and pick a patch to work on.
We hope to provide refreshments during the morning.

Home Cricket Match Southstoke
2021-05-16 14:30 - 18:00 | Cricket Pitch
Cricket Pitch 14:30

Craft Day
2020-02-17 10:00 - 16:00, 2020-01-28 10:00 - 16:00, 2020-01-18 10:00 - 16:00
Learn a new skill or bring your own project. Work with company for a few hours.
10.00 am – 4.00 pm £6.00 entrance fee, including lunch (please let us know any food restrictions)
For information and to book please contact Harriette: 01761 490445 hdottridge@hotmail.com

Village Coffee Morning
2020-02-15 10:30 - 12:30, 2020-01-14 10:30 - 12:30
Come and join us for free coffee/tea and cakes – everyone welcome
A chance to meet up and spend some time getting to know each other
Contact: Alice 490800

Litter Pick
2020-02-02 10:00 - 12:30
Once again this year we will be giving our village the annual spring clean. Anyone wishing to join in would be more than welcome – we will be meeting outside the village hall at 10am on Sunday 16th February. Depending on the number of volunteers, it usually takes us around two hours to cover all the lanes in and out of the village. Please wear suitable clothing and protective gloves, children will be most welcome but will need to be supervised. I will organise hi-vis vests, bags and litter pickers and will post the health & safety information on the village noticeboards so you can read at your leisure.
If anyone with 4 x 4 or tractor/trailers who could help drop off people and pick up bags along the way that would be most welcome – please just let me know if you can help – sarahwilson@comptongardenflowers.co.uk mobile: 07836 201611.
Our collection of litter will be gathered in the pound and Bath & North East Somerset council will pick-up wc 17th Feb.
On a previous occasion, when the weather was kind!

The Wellsway, Chewton & Burnett in Days Gone By - a talk by Brian Vowles
2020-01-24 19:30 - 21:30 | Compton Dando Hall, Compton Dando Hall, Court Hill, Compton Dando, BS39 4JZ, United Kingdom
The Wellsway, once known as the Burnett Road, is a busy commuter route into Keynsham and has been one of the major areas of housing development since WW1.
This talk on its history and that of Chewton and Burnett includes many surprising details and photographs from the archives of the Keynsham & Saltford Local History society.

Village Meeting
2020-01-15 19:30 - 20:30
All villagers are welcome to this meeting where we talk about events to hold and how we are going to organise them. Do join us, we are always looking for new ideas.

Village Coffee Morning
2019-12-14 10:30 - 12:30, 2019-11-12 10:30 - 12:30, 2019-10-12 10:30 - 12:30, 2019-09-10 10:30 - 12:30, 2019-08-17 10:30 - 12:30, 2019-07-16 10:30 - 12:30, 2019-06-15 10:30 - 12:30, 2019-05-14 10:30 - 12:30 | Compton Dando Hall, Compton Dando Hall, Court Hill, Compton Dando, BS39 4JZ, United Kingdom
Coffee Morning
Come and join us for free coffee/tea and cakes – everyone welcome
A chance to meet up and spend some time getting to know each other
Contact: Alice 490800

Village Group AGM and talk by Jonathan Foyle
2019-11-26 19:30 - 21:30 | Compton Dando Hall, Compton Dando Hall, Court Hill, Compton Dando, BS39 4JZ, United Kingdom
Why not join us for the Village Group AGM and see what we have been doing for the last year and have your say on what you would like us to be doing.
This year we are delighted to say that Jonathan Foyle will be giving a short talk on an interesting discovery.
In 2010, the elaborately carved, incomplete frame of an old oak bed was removed from the honeymoon suite of a hotel in Chester, to be auctioned. Three years later, Jonathan Foyle encountered it, expecting to use his training in history and archaeology to demonstrate a Victorian fake to its new owner. Instead, this talk reveals the evidence gathered over six years which shows it can only be an astonishing national treasure: the marriage bed of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York made by January 1486. It survived by leaving London in 1495 for Lancashire, then Yorkshire after the Civil War. In 1842 it fell into the hands of a Victorian fraudster who had no idea of its origin or meaning, but stripped and varnished it, and used it as the basis for a number of smaller, illiterate copies with arms of northern aristocrats, which he pretended to have discovered. The original royal crests of its royal inhabitants remain in his house. Now the story of this unique survival can be told.

Craft Day
2019-11-09 10:00 - 16:00 | Compton Dando Hall, Compton Dando Hall, Court Hill, Compton Dando, BS39 4JZ, United Kingdom
Learn a new skill or bring your own project
Work with company for a few hours
10.00 am – 4.00 pm
£6.00 entrance fee, including lunch
(please let us know any food restrictions)
For information and to book please contact
Harriette: 01761 490445
hdottridge@hotmail.com

Village Picnic
2019-09-07 12:00 - 16:00 | Old Rectory Garden
Come along and join villagers at this informal lunchtime picnic in the grounds of The Rectory – bring your own food and drink and something to sit on!

Village Meeting
2019-09-04 19:30 - 20:30 | St Mary’s Church, Church Lane, Compton Dando, BS39 4LJ, United Kingdom
All villagers are welcome to this meeting where we talk about events to hold and how to organise them.

Churchyard Working Party
2019-08-17 09:00 - 12:30, 2019-05-25 09:00 - 12:30 | St Mary’s Church, Church Lane, Compton Dando, BS39 4LJ, United Kingdom
Everyone welcome, armed with whatever gardening tools you have to hand, to tidy the Churchyard and surrounding village areas.
There is always pruning, sweeping, weeding…. with refreshments at the newly refurbished ‘Compton Caff’ at High Croft.
The more volunteers we have, the more time there will be for chat!
Steve Rendell

Village Fete
2019-07-06 14:00 - 17:00 | Centre of Village, Court Hill, Compton Dando, BS39 4JZ
The highlight of the village year – lots of fun for everyone – do volunteer to help and make sure you put the date in your calendar now!

The Fallon Family Cricket Match
2019-06-22 12:00 - 17:00
The Fallon Family Cricket match – this will be a fun day and last year we had about 30 village spectators you joined us for food and drink etc and some reasonable cricket to watch, so we do hope you will join us again for this year’s event.

Open Gardens
2019-06-16 14:00 - 18:00
Compton Dando Open Gardens – and more
A chance to satisfy one’s inquisitive side on Sunday June 16th!
Visitors can find out what people get up to in their private gardens – by visiting the gardens of the villagers in the centre of Compton Dando. For those who have a garden themselves, this is an opportunity to gain ideas as to new plants, new planting arrangements, or see what not to do, maybe.
The gardens in the centre of Compton Dando, a village on the river Chew, a few miles south of Keynsham, include larger more formal designs, a flower farm, and small courtyard gardens. These can be viewed in the afternoon (2-6 pm) with a single entry charge of £5 per person, payable on entry to the first garden chosen. Accompanied under 14s are free. There will be free parking in the field at the top of Court Hill, just beyond the junction of Cockers Hill and Rankers Lane, and opposite the garden of Court Hill House.
Further attractions on the day include teas for sale in the Church, where there will also be an Art display. In the Parish Hall, there will be items for sale including plants, flower arrangement accessories, cards by a local artist, and locally produced apple juice. If the weather is fine, there will be a display of classic cars on the Green (between the river and the pub).
For youngsters there will be a couple of extra activities as they go around the village and gardens: they will have the option of filling in a sheet with specific things spotted as they go around, and/or create a ‘journey stick’ where they attach loose items they pick up, to remind them where they’ve been on their journey through Compton Dando.
Please visit www.compton-dando.org or phone Sarah Wilson on 07836 201611 for more information. On the day, properties with open gardens will be identified by balloons at their gates, and maps will be available from the garden sites.
