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Welcome to Wrentham

Wrentham is a village of approximately 1000 persons nestled around a junction on the A12 London/Ipswich/Lowestoft/Gt. Yarmouth trunk road. The junction has roads to Southwold, Beccles and Covehithe. Wrentham is steeped in history stretching back to Saxon times and is mentioned in the Doomsday book. It is a mixture of old and new with some small new housing estates strategically placed so as not to detract from the overall impression of a very attractive village. Click here for more information. Wrentham has some very pleasant buildings and has won the ‘Best Kept Village’ competition several times in the past.  In 2004 Wrentham won the competition for the 10th time and a tree was planted to commemorate this.  In 2008 the Village won the Waveney District Area Section again and received a cheque for £200 from Waveney District Council which has been spent on providing a new Notice Board at the Village Hall, also a Cheque was presented for £250 by Beach Radio, Lowestoft as part of their ‘Help an East Coast Child’ campaign. This was spent on two five a side football goal posts. These have been erected on the football pitch in London Road for use by the younger generation of our Village.  

With a core of old Wrentham families plus many new residents it still has a real sense of community.  Our Summer Fete last year was  a great success regardless of inclement weather conditions.  

Wrentham, Suffolk enjoys connections with

Wrentham Massachusetts.

Wrentham is well sited for holiday makers wishing to visit the surrounding area, which includes Southwold (www.southwold.info): a quaint old Suffolk seaside resort untouched by time, Beccles (www.beccles.info)  a pretty market town, which has excellent boating facilities on the River Waveney, Lowestoft: England’s most Easterly point, Covehithe and Oulton Broad, which is also good for boating. Oulton Broad is the most Southerly of the ‘Norfolk’ Broads, being in Suffolk! It connects to the other Broads and holiday cruisers can be seen here and at Beccles.  There is also power boat racing here on Thursday evenings in the summer. Covehithe is a hamlet 2 - 3 miles from Wrentham and boasts a magnificant church, a good proportion of which is a ruin.  

There is a small Museum shop in the centre of the village, run by Rosie and Ronnie Carter which is used to display memorabilia from a bygone age on certain days of the year. It had a beautiful display over the Christmas period. More information can be obtained from the website: www.theshopmuseum.org.

Wrentham has good sports and recreational facilities and a prize winning Brass Band.  

(website: www.wrenthamband.org)

First Responders

First responders are members of the community who have been trained to attend emergencies (heart attacks etc.).

We now have two teams of “First Responders for Wrentham and Surrounding Areas”. One team of 4 covers  Wrentham,  Covehithe, Frostenden, South Cove and Benacre.  The other team of 3 covers Uggeshall, Stoven, Brampton and overlaps some of Frostenden, Wangford and Henham. (Karen, in Wangford also helps out the Wrentham teams).

They are contacted by the emergency services and can usually get to an emergency before the paramedics. Because they are on the spot, they are able to start the crucial recovery process within a very short time.  

(Click here to see a press release about them. )

Coordinator:  Mrs Gwen Stockdale

Tel: 01502 578335

Our First Responders are ‘N.H.S. First Responders’ and not ‘St. John’s Ambulance’ but for more information on what  ‘First Responders’ do visit the website:

www.sja.org.uk/sja/what-we-do/neighbourhood-first-responder.aspx

ABOUT WRENTHAM

FIRST RESPONDERS

The groups have celebrated a successful year with responders from parishes including Westleton, Southwold, Reydon, Wrentham, Peasenhall, Uggeshall.

They attended 294 calls, with an average response time of SEVEN minutes (between 1st April and 26th November 2009). Of these, 13 were to cardiac arrests.

We all have to record appreciation to these volunteers for the time, training and support which they give.

The first responders urgently need some more volunteers. If you would like to become a first responder or are interested to learn what they do, please contact:

The East of England Ambulance NHS on 01284731802

THE GOOD COMPANIONS CLUB:

The Good Companions Club meets on Monday afternoons in the Village Hall.  

Whist is played on alternate Tuesdays. This month the Whist Drives are on the 2nd, 17th and 31st.

Anyone wishing to join the club or play Whist would be most welcome.

St. NICHOLAS CHURCH  (Click HERE for information.)

SEPTEMBER Services  at Wrentham are as follows:

Sun 5th 11.00am HC (Revd. Leonard Payne)

Sun 12th 11.00am  Informal Service (Revd. Leonard Payne)

Sun 19th  11.00am HC (Revd. Leonard Payne)

Sun 26th 11.00am   Informal Service  (Revd. Eric Dore)

Sun 29th There will be a Benefice Service at Covehithe at 11.00am of Morning Prayer (BCP) and it is hoped that our church congregations and friends will unite in this first of our Benefice Services.

(In future where there is a 5th Sunday in the month a service will be held, by rotation, in one of our 4 churches).

Events/Meetings

COUNCIL MEETINGS:

The next PARISH COUNCIL MEETING will be held on Monday 20th September at 7.30pm.

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For further information

Contact your Parish Clerk: Angela Day Tel:  01502 675262

or  email:  angela@daydream.freeserve.co.uk

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