Welcome to the Ston Easton & Clapton community website.
The Ston Easton & Clapton community website exists to keep local people informed about what's going on in our villages. After serving the Ston Easton community for several years, we are now extending our reach to include Clapton. We have a combined Parish Council, so it seems sensible to share the website too!
Please send any events, news items, comments or ideas to admin@stoneaston.org.uk
Forthcoming Village Events
Special Meeting of Parish Council
A special meeting of the Parish Council will be held on Tuesday 31st January at 7.30pm at Clapton Village Hall. The main business of the meeting will be to consider the planning application for erection of two 11kw wind turbines at Whitchurch Farm, SE.
The agenda is available on the Parish Council page.
Wine Tasting with Santé Wines
A wine tasting evening with Santé Wines of Wells will be held in Ston Easton Village Hall on Friday 3rd February, in aid of the Church Roof Appeal. Doors open at 7.15pm for 7.30pm start.
Tickets are £15 per head - 12 tastings and glorious cheese and fruit supper - available from Jacky 241700 or Karen 241079. see full article »
Create & Explore
Our regular First-Sunday-of-the-Month club for pre-school and primary aged children.
Come along and find out more at the next monthly meeting of Create and Explore.
Children from Ston Easton and Clapton, Chewton Mendip and Emborough and Litton – pre-school, infant and junior school ages - are all welcome. (Pre-school children must be accompanied by either a parent or carer.)
Just come along and join in, or call Jacky Smith for more information - 01761 241700.
Mendip Gardening Club
The next meeting of the Mendip Gardening Club will be held in the Village Hall on Wednesday 18th January at 7:30pm.
The Orchids of Laos - with Luke Barnes of the Writhlington School Orchid Project.
See the Gardening Club page for more information.
Parish Council Meeting
The Parish Council will hold its next meeting on Tuesday 20th March 2012 at 7.30pm at Clapton Village Hall. For further details please contact the Parish Clerk (contact details and agenda on the 'Parish Council' page).
Village News
Parish Council meeting summary
Wed, 18/01/2012 - 15:31 — adminThe meeting summary for the Parish Council meeting on 10th January is now available on the Parish Council page.
Bulb Planting in Ston Easton
Sat, 05/11/2011 - 18:09 — adminMendip Gardening Club with hardy volunteers have been clearing, digging and planting a variety of bulbs to add colour and interest under village signs next to the A37. The hope is motorists will appreciate Ston Easton is inhabited and slow down - fingers crossed!
You won't notice for a while ...until crocus, tulips, iris, bluebell and alium, spring into action, (funded with parish council money) amongst crocosmias, evergreens and perennials donated by gardening club. Our thanks to RM Penny Ltd for topsoil. see full article »
Somerset Community Oil Scheme
Wed, 28/09/2011 - 12:48 — adminPress release:
The Community Council for Somerset (CCS) is delighted to announce the launch of a new venture – the Somerset Community Oil Scheme, which will be good for individuals, good for the environment and good for CCS. see full article »
Retirement Presentation for David Watts
Sun, 21/08/2011 - 22:45 — adminA retirement drinks evening was held on 14th July at The Court Hotel for David Watts by Ston Easton PCC, when he was presented with a framed photograph of St. Mary’s the Virgin Church. see full article »
Village Voices - Summer Update
Fri, 12/08/2011 - 21:39 — adminVillage Voices have had a very busy Spring and Summer season.
We really enjoyed appearing at The Chewton Mendip Art and Flower Festival Concert, where we welcomed for the first time, playing for us our new pianist Barbara Fox.
Litton and Chewton Mendip fetes were a joy to do and we hope they will encourage new members to join us.
We are now looking forward to presenting some new pieces at The Ston Easton Park Village Day on 4th September. see full article »
Mendip Gardeng Club - Summer Update
Fri, 12/08/2011 - 21:36 — adminThe final meeting of our first year was a social occasion, when some of the committee bravely opened their gardens to members. The evening ended with drinks and an American Supper.
It has been an interesting year with monthly meetings, covering topics from plant hunters and the origins of our garden plants to cultivating vegetables, the importance of bees and making good compost!
We are very grateful to have had support from the Somerset Federation of Gardening Clubs, and several speakers who gave their services free of charge to help us get started. At the end of the year were thrilled to have a membership of 65! see full article »
Royal Celebration Picnic
Tue, 03/05/2011 - 22:41 — adminWhat a pleasure to welcome so many people to mark the special day on 29th April.
We all watched the wedding ceremony on the big screen in a packed hall and more families joined festivities later to try out crafts and games. After the ceremony, Kathleen Hippisley proposed the toast to William and Kate, and Fergus the Tractor and Carmelo & Sons treated us to ice creams and rides - as is customary for a royal celebration! The day was rounded off nicely with a high standard of sheep racing – a first for Ston Easton!
A sum in excess of £1,000 was raised for the Red Room Pre-School, with extra money being raised for Clare Hall Residents Fund and the Cricket Club. see full article »
Village Voices Christmas Concert
Wed, 15/12/2010 - 22:11 — admin11th December 2010 - Village Voices "Friends and Family Christmas Concert".
It was with much excitement and anticipation that the Village Voices Community Choir, 30+ strong, gathered in the Ston Easton Village Hall to perform their first Christmas concert.
The Hall had been decorated by members of the choir with lots of twinkling fairy lights and beautiful floral displays earlier in the day. The Village Hall committee had kindly erected a magnificent tree and all was set for the evening event. see full article »
Mendip Gardening Club
Mon, 29/11/2010 - 22:54 — adminOn the morning of our last meeting, 17th November, a phone call revealed that our speaker had been taken to hospital with gall stones. The only other person who could have come was already speaking somewhere else, so we were in a pickle!
After a frantic morning on the phone, we eventually found Chris Birchell from Tale Valley Nurseries in Cullumpton who agreed to come. He was really good, not only did he show some wonderful slides of autumn and winter plants, trees and shrubs, his talk was packed full of really useful information and helpful tips to enable us to manage our gardens more easily.
Sometimes these things turn out for the best!
Turkey Supper
Mon, 29/11/2010 - 22:37 — admin
Friday 19th November saw another successful Turkey Supper held in the Village Hall in Ston Easton. The evening is the start of Christmas for those who attend. It was a great social and financial success, and the total funds raised to help support the Church are expected to be around £2500 (to be confirmed). see full article »
