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Contacts and other local information
This useful reference page lists contact details of local organisations and facilities.
PARISH COUNCIL.
Clerk: Sarah McNamee, Guys Cottage, Water Lane. tel 890550 email parish.clerk@draytonstleonard.co.uk
Chairman: Simon Richards, Heathercombe House, High Street. tel 400518 email simon.richards@draytonstleonard.co.uk
District Councillor - Dorchester, Drayton St Leonard and Warborough -
John Cotton
Email jc@jda-multimedia.co.uk
CHURCHES
Church of St Leonard and St Catherine
Vicar: Revd Dr Sandra Millar at Berinsfield Vicarage tel 340460
Churchwardens: Terry Rogers tel 891413, Hilarie Rogers tel 890163
Services:
1st Sunday of month, 9:30 am Children's Service
2nd Sunday of month, 9:30 am Holy Communion
3rd Sunday of month, 9:30 am Holy Communion followed by Coffee (Family service suitable for all ages)
4th Sunday of month, 6 pm (4 pm winter) Holy Communion
5th Sunday of month, Team Service, see the Church Newsletter or noticeboard in the church porch for venue and
time.
The bellringers ring before service on 3rd & 4th Sundays and special occasions and practise on Wednesday evenings.
More village Church information on the church page
Roman Catholic services:
Saturday 6:30 pm St Birinus, Dorchester
Sunday 9:30 am St Mary & St Berin, Berinsfield. 11:00 am St Birinus, Dorchester 6:30 pm RAF Benson
Priest: Father John Osman tel 340417
VILLAGE HALL
The Village Hall is available for hire. The hall has toilets, heating and a kitchen. Tables, chairs and tableware available separately. To book or for further details
contact David Herlihy, tel 400864.
NEWSLETTERS
"News and Views" is published around March, June, September and December, and distributed free to all houses in the village.
To submit articles or advertisements contact the Editor, David Herlihy, 3 Ford Lane. Tel 400864. email dslnewsviews@yahoo.co.uk
The monthly Church Newsletter is also delivered to each house in the village.
VILLAGE GROUPS AND SOCIETIES
Bell Ringers: Hilarie Rogers tel 890163.
go to bell ringers webpage
Garden Club: Amy Herlihy tel 400864 email garden.society@draytonstleonard.co.uk
Investment Club: Charles Dickerson tel 891467 email charles.dickerson@draytonstleonard.co.uk
Local History Society: Charles Dickerson tel 891467 email charles.dickerson@draytonstleonard.co.uk
Reading Group: Sarah McNamee tel 891446
Other local information
Catherine Wheel PUBLIC HOUSE (free house, B&B), Landlord Charlie Healey tel 890389. Food is available evenings and lunchtimes
Menu . He also does Pig Roasts.
The Internet Cafe was in the pub but has now closed.
NEWSPAPERS morning delivery: Two services are available : one is Weekdays Mon-Sat, the other Sundays. See the
papers page for details or ring Steve Cox tel 400522 for weekday delivery, or contact Hugh Farrant (or George Farrant)
about getting on the Sunday self delivery group.
MILK delivery: There are two rounds serving the village. On Mon, Wed and Fri milkman Alan Woods (round 38) delivers
before breakfast or lunch, on Tue, Thu and Sat the milkman is Kevin (round ?) who normally delivers well before breakfast.
Alan is self employed, Kevin is with Dairy Crest. Ring the depot (tel 792221) saying which
route/days you would prefer.
FROZEN FOODS delivery: A van carrying frozen meat and fish will call, contact Gerald Travis tel 07791 898659 email
qualityfoods@btinternet.com.
REFUSE/RECYCLING COLLECTION day is usually Friday. See the Parish Council notice board for changes around holidays, usually Saturday
after. Refuse and recycling are collected free, an optional garden waste collection service is available for a fee, see South Oxfordshire District Council (SODC) website
www.southoxon.gov.uk for more details. (Link on through Environment, Rubbish Collection.)
In summary, the council collects paper, cardboard, cans, cartons, plastics and textiles from the kerbside. Clean clothing in bags can be
recycled here in the village by depositing in the container in the Catherine Wheel carpark. Glass bottles have to be taken to Dorchester
(enter Dorchester, turn left up the old main road, skip is at end), or Stadhampton (Crazy Bear carpark). Some supermarkets have recycling
stations, the one at Abingdon's Tesco will take batteries (cells) e.g. torch batteries. Comprehensive Council recycling stations for all kinds
of recycling and waste can be found off the Oxford ring road at Redbridge, and, slightly closer, at Oakley Wood near Ewelme (off the A4130 Wallingford to Henley
road, turn left approximately 2 miles from roundabout at Crowmarsh)
BUS SERVICES (For school bus service see SCHOOLS below, for Community Transport see the next paragraph.
There is a very limited bus service, from the War Memorial, with
Grayline Local Link (Tel: 01869 246461). Up to date timetable
details can be found on the bus stop at the War Memorial or on the Parish Noticeboard (outside Terry Rogers house) or through
Traveline *, or the Oxfordshire county council website.
* enter Drayton St Leonard and Abingdon and click your way through the many options.
Here is a summary:
Outward Journey
DSL War Memorial depart 10:05 Friday ONLY
Berinsfield Interchange 10:09
Burcot 10:12
Clifton Hampden (P.Off) 10:15
Long Wittenham 10:20
Appleford (pub) 10:29
Culham (village) 10:35
Abingdon (War Memorial - Barclays) 10:40
Return Journey: BY REQUEST ONLY.
Abingdon 12:30 Fri Only
Culham village 12:35
Appleford 12:41
Long Wittenham 12:50
Clifton Hampden (P.Off) 12:55
Burcot 12:55
Berinsfield (Interchange) 13:01
Drayton St Leonard arrive 13:05
NOTE THAT THE RETURN JOURNEY ONLY RUNS BY REQUEST. BOOK YOUR RETURN JOURNEY WHEN YOU MAKE YOUR OUTWARD TRIP.
Grayline Local Link 49A runs on Tuesday ONLY. Details on
Traveline or Oxfordshire county council.
Outward Journey
DSL War Memorial 09:55 Tuesdays ONLY
Berinsfield (Fane Drive) 10:02
Marsh Baldon 10:12
Toot Baldon 10:15
Kings Copse 10:21
Cowley (Templars Square) 10:30
Abingdon (War Memorial) 10:50
Return Journey: BY REQUEST ONLY.
Abingdon (War memorial) 12:30 Tue ONLY
Cowley (Templars Square) 12:50
Kings Copse 12:59
Toot Baldon 13:05
Marsh Baldon 13:08
Berinsfield (Fane Drive) 13:18
Drayton St Leonard arrive 13:25
NOTE THAT THE RETURN JOURNEY ONLY RUNS BY REQUEST. BOOK YOUR RETURN JOURNEY WHEN YOU MAKE YOUR OUTWARD TRIP.
Thames Travel run a Wallingford Market Friday bus service along the A329, the other side of the river over
the footbridge. No bus stop is marked, flag the driver down at the old layby.
126, WALLINGFORD - CUXHAM - WALLINGFORD - Friday ONLY
Wallingford (Market Place) 0910
Crowmarsh (Church) 0913
Benson (Sands Way) 0919
Upperton 0924
Brightwell Baldwin 0925
Cuxham (Gregory Estate) 0927
Chalgrove (Red Lion) 0934
Stadhampton (Garage) 0940
Newington 0943
Warborough (Sinodun View) 0946
Wallingford (Market Place) 0955
126, WALLINGFORD - CUXHAM - WALLINGFORD - Friday ONLY
Wallingford (Market Place) 1220
Warborough (Sinodun View) 1229
Newington 1232
Stadhampton (School Lane) 1235
Chalgrove (Red Lion) 1241
Cuxham (Gregory Estate) 1248
Brightwell Baldwin 1250
Upperton 1251
Benson (Sands Way) 1256
Crowmarsh ( opp. Church) 1302
Wallingford (Market Place) 1305
Thames Travel is the main bus company in our area. There is a good choice of
frequent buses from Berinsfield and Stadhampton.
Check on the Thames Travel website for the current details.
From Berinsfield (various bus stops, see timetable for details), X39 (express) and 105/6 (villages) to Oxford or Wallingford,
X15 to Abingdon/Witney or Wallingford, 138 all villages to Wallingford. Also useful is their
Didcot to Oxford service 107 via Berinsfield. Number and timetable vary on the level of subsidy the route receives.
Check on the Thames Travel website for the current details.
From Stadhampton, to Oxford, Watlington, Chalgrove and Wheatley.
Check on the Thames Travel website for the current details.
The Thames Travel website gives details of connecting services to Benson, Ewelme, Britwell Salome,
the Miltons, Reading, Henley etc.
COMMUNITY TRANSPORT,
BERINSFIELD INFORMATION & VOLUNTEER CENTRE.
The villages's Sue Hurley organises a Hospital driving scheme and much more from the Berinsfield Information & Volunteer
Centre. Call her on 343044. Quoting from an article she wrote for the Dec 2006 Drayton St. Leonard News & Views:
The Centre is a small charity working in Berinsfield and the surrrounding villages, offering
information and advise, providing welfare rights, debt counseling, advocacy, help with form filling, consumer queries and
many other things.
We also have a Hospital driving scheme, a Craft workshop, run coffee mornings for a meeting place, ... ... ... it is also
in our remit to identify or create projects for helping people to stay in their own homes.
For all these projects we have volunteers who have the relevant training, but as always volunteers move on and we are now
recruiting volunteers for the Advice Centre and the Driving Scheme.
If you would like to help either of these projects please contact Sue on 343044.
Our nearest LIBRARY is in Berinsfield tel 340771
link
to Oxfordshire County Council Libraries page.
POST OFFICES in Berinsfield and Stadhampton.
Berinsfield Post Office is in the Co-Op but has shorter hours: Mon, - Fri = 09:00 - 17:30, Sat = 09:00 - 12:30,
(Sun closed)
Stadhampton Post Office is in the Petrol Station and opens slightly longer hours, also the pillar box outside has a later last collection
(18:30) and a Sunday collection (11:30).
Our only letter box is in the wall of the old village shop Fieldview House, in High Street near the sharp corner into Church Lane. Collections
are made morning and afternoon Mon - Fri and in the morning on Saturday but we have no collection on Sundays or Bank Holidays.
HEALTH CENTRE at Berinsfield, tel 340558 website
www.berinsfieldhealthcentre.nhs.uk
SPORTS CENTRE (including gym, pool, activities) in Berinsfield (tel 341035).
Abbey Sports Centre, Soll-Leisure.
MARTIAL ARTS Shugenkai Aikido in Drayton St Leonard village hall, Tues & Thurs 19:00 - 21:00.
£1 Jr, £2 Adult, £1 >65. For further details contact Jeff Ball, email aikijeff@hotmail.com , website
www.shugenkai.org, tel 386950 or 07971 680262.
Mount Farm COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTRE (Wimblestraw Road, Berinsfield, next to the primary school) tel 340688 email berinsfield.acl@oxfordshire.gov.uk .
Nearest SCHOOLS
The schools listed here are state schools, with free education for local residents. Oxfordshire has many fee paying schools, look on such
websites as the Independent Schoools Council information service (ISCis) www.iscis.uk.net for information.
Some pupils in the village attend the International School in Culham.
More information on state schools can be found on such sites at Ofsted www.ofted.gov.uk and the
LEA www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/learning.
Secondary: Catchment schools are Fitzharrys, John Mason and Larkmead (all in Abingdon). The county council local education authority
(LEA) provides a bus service for pupils, a permit issued at the school is required. It may be possible to get a place in Wallingford school, and a bus service is provided for pupils there
too. The buses start at the War Memorial leaving at 07:50 and return at 16:20, with a late bus an hour later for after school activities. No
bus service is provided for other schools in the area that students here attend, such as John Watson School Wheatley.
Primary: Catchment school is Dorchester St Birinus CofE tel 340081. The LEA provides a bus service for
pupils, again each student needs a permit. The bus starts at the Catherine Wheel at 08:30 and picks up at the War Memorial and other points. Return time is 15:15. No
bus service is provided for pupils in other local schools such as Berinsfield .
Pre-School: beside Dorchester primary school, contact Linda Burke-Smith (Supervisor), tel 341005.
Playgroup: disbanded.
UNIFORMED YOUTH GROUPS
Church Army at the Church Army hut, Berinsfield.
Cubs/Scouts at Berinsfield, contact Lil Keys 340860.
Cubs/Sea Scouts at Clifton Hampden (Scout hut on playing field near traffic lights).
Brownies at Berinsfield, contact Angie Bowden 340389.
Brownies at Dorchester, contact Jessica Gibbs 858679.
Guides at Berinsfield contact Angie Bowden 340389.
(Original - Dave Hewitt and Hilarie Rogers, updates - Steve Cox, webmaster@draytonstleonard.co.uk. Please email me with
updates or suggestions for inclusion.)
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