Yarnton is a small village in rural Oxfordshire, England. It is possible that Yarnton is the oldest village in England though this is a claim shared with several hundred other villages.
This is the community website for Yarnton Village controlled and sponsored by Yarnton Village News.
Our Village Website has been completely reconstructed, and we hope you think the result is clearer and more user-friendly. Do visit the various parts of the site, and let us have any comments, via the Contact Us link at the top of the page.
We hope soon to have a Photo Gallery, so if you have any photographs which you would like considered for inclusion, please hang on to them for now, and we will let you know when the Gallery is up and running.
Please be aware that the play area only will be closed to the public from
1200hrs Friday 19th September to Sunday 21st September 2008. This is to
facilitate removal of old bark and installation of new. The Playing Field
Management Committee apologise for any inconvenience caused but the work is
essential for the safety of the users. Volunteers to help would be most
welcome at any time, preferably with shovels, rakes and if possible
wheelbarrows. The closure is already advertised on Village Notice Boards and
the Village News.
Signs will be posted at all entrances to the site 48hours before closure.
Sunday 28th September, Harvest Festival, 11 a.m. Do come along and join us for this always enjoyable event, as we celebrate the wonderful gifts of creation, give thanks to God, and give something back. This year we are making our Harvest Festival a Community Gift Day, in that the collection will go to local charities in our community (not the church). So do come along and give generously.
We could really do with a few more helpers for the Tidy Up - particularly to cover Great Close Road and the roads leading off it, and Gravel Pits Lane and that side of the A44. Could you help with this - or with any other part of the village?
Oxfordshire Waste Partnership is supporting the Tidy Up, and we hope they will be supplying lItter pickers, gloves, recycling sacks, etc. and will collect the rubbish from the Village Hall Car Park afterwards.
Please get in touch with Ruth Astall on 01865 372637, e-mail ruth-astall@community.co.uk if you can help.
Further information is available on www.thebigtidyup.org