LATEST Information
Monday September 25th
World Dream Day
Today in the Village:
Circuit Training, Walking rugby, Organ Recital, Parish Council
If you have any news or other contributions you think the village would be interested in please let me know via email or the Contact Us button at the bottom of this page.
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​This Week's Diary​
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Roadworks: Closures possible on Bridge St, Dulverton
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Mon 25th​​
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9:00am Circuit training, Recreation Field or Village Hall if wet
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7:00pm Walking Rugby, Recreation Field
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7:00pm Parish Council Meeting, Village Hall
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7:00pm Organ Recital, St Mary Magdalene's
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Tues 26th​​​​​​​​​
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Wed 27th​​​​​
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10:30am Coffee Morning, Village Hall
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Thurs 28th​​
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9:00am Core Strength exercises, Village Hall
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Fri 29th
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10:30-12:00 Macmillan Coffee Morning, Bridge Cottage Tearoom
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Sat 30th
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10:30am Dulverton Farmers Market​​
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Avon & Somerset police publish a weekly list of where their traffic enforcement cameras will be. It can be viewed here.
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A water leak may cause closure of Bridge Street in Dulverton over the next few days.
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Further roadworks may close the B3222 at Exbridge from Oct 2nd-20th to allow for drainage works.
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The flag on St Mary Magdalene's was at half mast this weekend to commemorate the passing of Annette Sinclair who was Church Warden here. Annette lived at Church Mead on Ash Lane.
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In preparation for Exmoor's Dark Skies Festival, the organisers are offering a children's art competition, where entries should "Capture the wonders of Exmoor at night in a painting, drawing or other creative medium"
Prizes include a Starsense Explorer Celestron Telescope.
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There are two age categories, 11 years and under, and 12-16 years.
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Full details of the competition can be downloaded here
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The Exmoor Dark Skies festival 2023 brochure can be found on our Stargazing page
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Confirmation that Spark IT and Minehead Connection Cafe are sending a Drop In Digital Roadshow around West Somerset, aiming to give free help and advice for remote users struggling to get connected to the internet.
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The roadshow will be visiting the Exford White Horse on October 30th between 2-3:30pm. No booking is required, and all are welcome to drop in.
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For further enquiries email mineheadteam@sparksomerset.org.uk
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Bridge Cottage Tearoom is appealing for raffle prizes for their Macmillan Coffee Morning which takes place next Friday, September 29th from 10:00 to 12:30.
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The very popular event raised £1,000 last year.
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This season's team photo has been added to our 2023 Winsford Cricket review
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The Winn Club have announced the start of their Winter talk schedule, with Claire Ashby speaking on "Life as a Nurse in Camp Bastion" - her extraordinary experiences as a RAF theatre sister in Afghanistan.
The talk will be in the Village Hall on October 12th from 2:30-4:30. Tickets are £5 for members, £6 for non-members, to include tea and refreshments.
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If you are over 65 and want a Covid booster this winter, bookings are now available at Minehead amongst other places. You can make a booking with the NHS by calling 119 or online via this link
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There will be a Parish Council today, 7:00pm in the Village Hall.
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Amongst items for discussion are fraud training, website updating, highway matters, and the Village Green bridge and ownership.
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For the full agenda see our Parish Council page
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As the home cricket season has finished, dog walkers are now allowed back on the Recreation Field as long as their dogs are under control and, importantly their owners show consideration by cleaning up after them as the field is still used by others such as Monday's Walking Rugby group.
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We are proud to introduce winfordvillage.info's latest contributor. While very young, they have a superhuman knowledge base and can construct sentences and dialogue far better than you are used to here.
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Yes, ChatGPT, the new and widely used Artificial Intelligence program has consented to write a couple of articles for this website, and pretty good they are to.
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ChatGPT was asked to write short articles on "Rural Life on Exmoor" and "Living in Winsford, Exmoor". Apart from the odd misleading claim ("fertile land"?) it has come up with impressive results.
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It was also asked to come up with a couple of April Fools stories, neither of which was used on the day.
You can read these articles on our ChatGPT's view page, which can be found under About Winsford on the menu above.
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On days when the International Space Station can be viewed (clouds permitting) we will show its image on the top of the page. Clicking the image will send you to NASA's page showing with times and relevant compass points.
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Many photos and stories featured on this page get transferred to the Village Events page where they can be viewed for posterity.
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