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Wednesday 1 April 2026Partly cloudy with clear spells
Temperature in Sibford at 6.00pm: 11°
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Ladies Coffee Club
Ladies!! Come for coffee and a chat at the pub.
Sibford Lunch Club
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Community Café
Free to attend as kindly sponsored by the Town Estate Charity Refreshments available as well …
Free to attend as kindly sponsored by the Town Estate Charity
Refreshments available as well as games, crafts, books, puzzles.
Come and socialise and keep warm in the small hall.
Contact Ginny on 01295 780 373 or ginnybennett
All welcome!
Benefice Eucharist for Maundy Thursday
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Ladies Coffee Club
Ladies!! Come for coffee and a chat at the pub.
Easter activity morning in Shutford
Easter Egg Trail
Book Swap Café
Welcome to our monthly chance to have coffee/cake and a chat. Browse our large selection …read more
Main Street (Time TBC)
Sibford Striders
We leave the Village Hall car park on foot or by car at 10 am …read more
Sibford Strollers
We leave the Village Hall car park on foot or by car at 10 am …read more
Men’s Breakfast Club
We're just these guys, you know?
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Road Closure Sibford – Shutford
OCC writes: Temporary Traffic Regulation Notice – S14 Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984
Temporary Road …read more
Road Closure Sibford – Shutford
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News & Notices
The Great Wall of China Trek
This is a fund raising challenge for Katharine House Hospice - a week in China, walking sections of the wall.
I worked at Katharine House for about 8 years and …read more
Notice of Election – Parish Councils
Please see below the Notice of Election published by Cherwell District Council.
Sibford in the news
Banburyshire residents are beating the energy price crisis with home grown power
... Sibford solar farm which is providing local people with cheap electricity placeholder image. The Sibford solar farm …read more
Sibford Gower Parish Council Minutes
The minutes of the March meeting of Sibford Gower Parish Council can be found below.
Sibford Walkers – Striders & Strollers
The current arrangement of alternate Monday morning walks led by Phil Hilton will conclude with a final walk on Monday 30th March.
Starting in April it is intended to have …read more
Easter Egg Trail
International Space Station
ISS next visible over Sibford around Friday 8 May 2026.
Notes:
- The "up to" figure is a measure of the maximum height of the ISS in the sky, between 0° …read more
The Sibfords Newsletters
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The Town Estate Charity
A Helping Hand for Sibford Gower and Burdrop Residents
The Town Estate Charity (Sibford Gower and Burdrop) has been part of our community since around 1560. It was set up …read more
Walks near Sibford
We are blessed with great walking country around the Sibfords. Visit the Sibford Walkers webpage for maps of over 50 circular walks. Each map page includes a link to download …read more
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Voices from the past
26 years ago
the Sibford Scene in November 2000
Nature Notes: Sept. 23rd. I was sorry to have slept through this morning's earth tremor as I have never felt or heard …
Nature Notes
Sept. 23rd. I was sorry to have slept through this morning’s earth tremor as I have never felt or heard one. This one, centred just to the east of Warwick and measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale, was felt and heard by several people in the village. It sounded to some like a gust of wind and two people have told me that it caused pheasants to fly up noisily from close to their houses.
Oct. 3rd. Another bird flew against our window today. I went straight out hoping to find it alive but was only in time to see a cat running away with what was probably a great tit, which supports my theory that many of the birds that die in this way are trying to escape from predators. After hearing that there was either a mink or a polecat dead on the road near the site of the Pig and Whistle, I thought I ought to look for myself. It turned out to be a polecat which could be either a domesticated one that had been lost while ferreting or a truly wild one, as they are known. to have recolonised this area over the last few years. I am told that only an expert studying the skull could say whether it was wild or not. As this one was only half a mile from one that was killed on Pitch Hill a few years ago and not much further from one that I saw in the headlights on Sibford Heath it seems likely that they are wild ones.
Oct. 14th. As I was approaching Traitors Ford in the car this afternoon a dipper flew across the road coming under the bridge and flying on downstream only a foot or so above the water. This is the first time I have seen one on the Stour but I was told, some years ago, that a pair nested a few miles downstream.
135 years ago today
Reverend Stevens's diary for Wednesday 1 April 1891
A most remarkable day. At Morning Prayer the Clerk informed me that a Deputation from the Rural Sanitary Authority had …
A most remarkable day. At Morning Prayer the Clerk informed me that a Deputation from the Rural Sanitary Authority had called during the night and filled the pond with claret. I went down to look and found the whole village assembled. Mr Mann proposed a resolution that it be bottled and sold for the Church Repairs Fund. Mr Inns counter-proposed that it be left as it was. Isaac Padbury objected to both motions on the grounds that the Vestry had not been consulted. No resolution was carried. Mrs Enock made herself heard.
At noon a telegram arrived from the Bishop informing me that Her Majesty had been so impressed by the management of the Sibford Allotments that she wished to confer upon me a Barony. I am to be styled Lord Stevens of Sibford Gower and Sibford Ferris, with a seat in the House of Lords and an income of two thousand pounds per annum. Bell says she will need new curtains.
Harry writes from London that he has been appointed Professor of Pond Management at the University of Cambridge. I replied that no good could come of a Cambridge appointment and that he had better try for something at Oxford.
At Evensong the congregation numbered four hundred and seventy-three, the largest I have ever recorded. Every pew was full. Charles Barnes had to light all the candles and still there was not room. People came from Burdrop, Sibford Ferris, Epwell, Shutford, Swalcliffe, Brailes, and one man who said he had walked from Banbury. The offertory amounted to fourteen pounds, six shillings, and eightpence. I preached on the text “Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.” I do not think anyone took the hint.
Sally Hone called to beg a glass of the claret. I told her the pond was under the jurisdiction of the Rural Sanitary Authority and she must apply to Mr White.
Frank says I am become a humorist in my old age. I told him I am nothing of the kind. I have merely set down the facts as they occurred.
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1/63 The Lamb family

1/63 The Lamb family