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Shipbourne News
This page displays the latest news and items of interest
in the village and will be updated on a regular basis. Email Curtis
Galbraith at web@shipbourne.com
with newsworthy items or your Village Events
for inclusion in the Calendar.
 Shipbourne
Farmers’ Market is the ‘Best in Kent’ again – and that’s official!
Four years after first winning the title ‘Best Farmers Market in Kent’ and
following three years of being ‘Runners Up’ Shipbourne Farmers’ Market was
again judged ‘Best in Kent’ at the recent ‘Taste of Kent’ Awards Ceremony.
The winner was chosen from those short-listed by judges analysing the
results of a ‘Mystery Shopper’ who visited the markets. In the judges
summing up, Shipbourne was chosen because of its ‘excellent shopping
experience and wide variety of produce’.
The Chaser also made it to the finals, but this year was pipped at the
post. Shipbourne, one of the smallest villages at the Ceremony, had more
finalists than any other town or village in Kent!
Support
Shipbourne’s two fine pubs!
Shipbourne has two fine and diverse pubs. Both are popular with locals
and visitors alike, have caring landlords and pleasant staff. We are lucky
to have them.
The Chaser:
Open log fires, good cask beers, freshly home cooked food, quality
drinkable wines, a beautiful beer garden and a covered courtyard in the
winter months. It is a place for people to meet, eat, drink and chat in a
relaxed informal atmosphere.
Its mantelpiece groans under the weight of awards including ‘Food Pub
Company of the Year 2009’ at ‘The Publican’ Food & drinks awards and
winner of the West Kent Business Excellence awards 2009 for ‘Customer
Service’ as well as Sunday Lunch Pub of the Year 2008. Darren Somerton who
is the resident Operations Manager for Whiting & Hammond Group was himself
a finalist for ‘Food Champion of the Year’ in the 2009 ‘The Publican’
awards.
We also ought to record that The Chaser kindly contributed a ‘hefty chunk’
of money towards the recent resurfacing of the Church Approach.
The Kentish Rifleman:
Situated in Roughway Lane, between Dunks Green and Shipbourne, ‘The
Rifleman’ (born about 1552) is a charming and traditional ‘Old English
Pub’ hidden away in the Kentish countryside. The low, oak beamed ceilings
and open fireplaces set the scene for a cosy visit during the winter
months, while a pretty cottage garden provides the perfect setting for
outside dining, or just for a drink to catch up with friends during the
warmer months of the year.
This Free House serves good real ales, good wine and home cooked food.
Ongoing events include a popular Pub Quiz night and this September there
is the first Kentish Rifleman Autumn Produce Show – a fun show for amateur
gardeners around the Shipbourne, Plaxtol and Dunk's Green area.
The Chaser, The Kentish Rifleman as well as Shipbourne
Farmers’ Market support the Shipbourne village website via the ‘Local
Directory’. Browse their individual websites by clicking
here.
Don’t
take cardboard to the recycling banks after the end of June
– put it in your Green Bin
From the beginning of July TMBC is saying that as ‘almost every resident
in Tonbridge and Malling can use their green-lidded bin service to dispose
of cardboard’ it has decided to remove cardboard banks from recycling
sites across the borough. All the cardboard banks will be removed by the
end of June.
The Council advises residents that large pieces of cardboard that won't
fit into their green-lidded bin can be stacked neatly or tied with string
and placed next to the green-lidded bin on collection day.
Cardboard can still be taken for recycling to any of the Household Waste
Recycling Centres run by Kent County Council, such as those at North Farm,
Long Field Road, Tunbridge Wells and the Tovil Centre, Burial Ground Lane,
Maidstone.
Renewable
Energy
Guides
Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council has produced some free guides on
renewable energy technologies that can be installed in the home including
Solar Panels, Photovoltaic Cells, Wind Turbines and Biomass Options like
wood pellets, wood chips or logs, which can be burnt to provide heating or
hot water. Additional guides cover Saving Water at Home and Sustainable
Drainage Systems.
All the guides are available on the Council’s website www.tmbc.gov.uk
(links open in new window):
Achieving sustainable development
Water Efficiency and Sustainable Drainage
or by calling 01732 876266 or emailing
ldf@tmbc.gov.uk
Church
Restoration
See the St Giles page for full
details of the church restoration project with photo gallery.
A
Taste of Shipbourne
Our local cookbook ‘A Taste of Shipbourne’ is selling fast. Costing
just £10.00 it contains more than 200 personal recipes, including some
contributed by Albert Roux, who, in his younger days, cooked for the late
Peter Cazalet at Fairlawne. Many in the village have contributed their
favourite and well tried recipes and anecdotes. Beautifully produced and
bound and containing over 250 pages ‘A Taste of Shipbourne’ will become a
Shipbourne classic and makes an ideal present for friends and family
further afield. The Queen has sent a message of support and the foreward
is by Sir Edward Cazalet. Available from Jackie Raven.
Green
Bin Collection
The new green-lidded bin is supplied for the
collection of garden waste, cardboard and kitchen waste. This bin will be
collected fortnightly with the green box while the normal black ‘wheelie
bin’ will be collected only on the alternate week.
The green-lidded bin can be used to dispose of the
following:
Garden Waste: Grass cuttings, hedge clippings,
flowers, pruning, thorny branches, weeds and fruit.
Cardboard: Brown corrugated cardboard, flat grey cardboard,
(typically as used in cereal and shoe boxes and toilet roll tubes) and
shiny cardboard used around ready meals. Christmas and birthday cards can
also be recycled.
Kitchen waste: All cooked and uncooked vegetables, cooked and
uncooked meat and fish, bones, tea bags, coffee grounds and plate
scrapings.
When placing kitchen waste in the green-lidded bin wrap
it in newspapers, paper bags or place it in cardboard boxes. Plastic bags
of any kind should not be used.
During hot weather, if flies or maggots are experienced,
contact the waste services team at TMBC who may be able to help. It is
most important to note that kitchen waste can also be collected in your
black wheeled bin. Therefore during the summer you may place kitchen waste
in whichever bin is next due for collection.
View TMBC's
Green Waste Leaflet
For further details visit
TMBC’s web site.
Village
Book
A book about the village and its people, Shipbourne Life and Times, is
available from the author Frank Chapman at Martins Oast, Back Lane, TN11
9PP, 01732 810455 or fa.chapman@virgin.net
Price £12.00 or £13.00 by post. The book tells the Shipbourne story, much
of it in the words of people who live here and has scores of photographs.
It also covers the story of the Fairlawne Estate and Peter Cazalet's
racing stable there, including the ‘Hush-hush horses’; the stable's secret
wartime role in protecting our soldiers from a variety of diseases.
Design
Statement
The Shipbourne Design Statement is an informative and quality 33
page booklet illustrated with 72 colour photographs and eight black &
white drawings and maps. It enables the visual qualities of the village
and local priorities - as defined by the community - to be considered in
the planning processes. The design issues included in the Statement are of
use to individual owners when contemplating or undertaking any alterations
to their property. Likewise, developers and builders will find the Design
Statement a helpful tool. Read more here: Design
Statement.
Parking
Please do not park on the double yellow lines or on the pavement when
visiting The Chaser or the Farmers’ Market. A Penalty Charge Notice can be
issued if parked here at any time 24 hours a day 7 days a week. The
restrictions were put in place to safeguard the junction and access along
Upper Green Road. Vehicles obstructing the junction or parked on the
carriageway of the A227 may also be subject to prosecution by Kent Police.
Please park responsibly.
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Parish Council meeting
Monday 30th August
St Giles's fair
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