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Wha's Wha.Click here for an index of popular pages
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The Damson ValleyThe Parish of Crosthwaite and Lyth lies 5 miles west of Kendal, 5 miles north of Grange-over-Sands and 3 miles south of Bowness-on-Windermere. The M6 motorway is 5 miles from the parish. Manchester Airport is 82 miles to the south. Crosthwaite derives its name from the old Scandinavian word, "thwaite", meaning a clearing in a forest or a piece of land, which has been enclosed. This was blended with "Cross", which may reflect the earlier Christian connections with the Irish or Angle missionaries of the sixth or seventh century. The Norsemen also gave the Lyth Valley its name; "hlith" means sloping hillside. News and Events(click on the underlined text to go to the article, website or e-mail address)** Crosthwaite Post Offices Opening TimesPunch Bowl Inn, CrosthwaiteMondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays 9.30am to 12.30amHare and Hounds at Bowland BridgeTuesdays and Thursdays 1.30pm to 4.00pm** | |
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Click HERE for the most recent Parish Council Meeting Agenda.
Click HERE for the Annual Parish Council Meeting Agenda.
Click HERE for the draft latest Parish Council mintutes
and HERE for approved Parish Council minutes.
Click HERE for the Annual Parish Council Meeting draft minutes.
Click HERE for the BDO Audit 2016-2017
Martin french
Clerk to Crosthwaite & Lyth Parish Council.
are proud to announce that we are
celebrating our 90th Anniversary during 2018
We’d like to invite everyone from Crosthwaite and Lyth to come and help us celebrate at a special evening event:
On Wednesday 15th August
there will be a fascinating presentation by the Kendal Oral History Society called “Rural Life in South Lakeland”
We’ll also be serving a buffet supper.
We’d also like to invite everyone from the Two Valleys parishes to join us at our Open Meetings
On Wednesday 18th July at 8pm
A cookery demonstration: “The 45 minute dinner party menu”
On Wednesday 17th October at 8pm
Mr Andrew Vickers from SLDC will be talking about “Recycling – Rubbish Matters” and there will also be a stall run by Silverdale WI highlighting microplastic fibres and a display that features alternatives to single use plastic.
Please make a note of the dates and further information will be available in due course. There will be a small charge for the July and October events, payable on the door, but the August event will be free to all members and guests and we’ll be issuing tickets.
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Author Philip Caine gave a highly amusing talk on his life “Barrow to Baghdad”, chronicling his very eventful working life from its beginnings as a trainee in a hotel kitchen in Barrow, and later as Facilities Manager via restaurants, hotels, oil rigs, construction projects and entrepreneurial ventures. His experiences and encounters with a series of colourful and dubious characters have given him the basis for his latest venture, as an author of thrilling stories of adventure and intrigue. Although they are not true stories, the characters and events in his books are based on real events and people he has met in his varied and exciting life.
The Annual General Meeting took take place at Crosthwaite School, on Wednesday 7th February 2018.
The AGM minutes (draft) and accounts for 2017 are available HERE
Martin Casson
Chairman
Click here for the latest TVPN
- or here for previous issues.
We have started the first year of a 4 year project to assess the current status of the Winster and Gilpin catchments, identify opportunities to enhance and restore areas and where appropriate to implement restoration/remediation options to allow for recovery. This will all be closely linked with the community, working with landowners to identify opportunities, working with communities to undertake monitoring and develop options and running a number of events for schools, children and adults alike to get involved with the world of rivers. To find out more please go to the webpage:
https://scrt.co.uk/what-we-do/current-projects/.
Click HERE for the 2018 WI programme.
Rural Wheels provides door-to-door transport for people who do not have, or are unable to access scheduled transport. The service can be used for a variety of purposes including:
For more information click HERE to go to the CCC Rural Wheels and Community Wheels web page.
Lakes and Lyth Community Wheels started on Wednesday 18 September 2016 and will provide a new community transport service for our parish.
Click below for:-
Community Wheels Customer Leaflet
Community Wheels Customer Poster
Community Wheels Newsletter
Every Wednesday morning a 13 seater mini-bus is running a service from Crosthwaite to Kendal, leaving the Memorial hall at 10 oclock.
The service starts in Kendal travels through Bowness, Winster, Crosthwaite, Underbarrow, and Brigsteer, arriving in Kendal about 10.45. The return journey is about two hours later, giving you plenty of time to do your shopping, or any businees you may need to do in Kendal.
The service is run by Cumbria County Council, using volunteer drivers from the local area. To use the bus you must register to make a trip. This can be arranged via the library in Kendal, or by giving John Holmes a call on 015395 68599.
Please try and use this service, it's here to stay as long as we have enough passengers to make it viable. Everyone using it now speaks about the "Great Crack" and companionship that has built up since the service started.
For more information call John Holmes, phone as above. To speak direct to the operators in Carlisle ring 0845 6023786 .
Volunteers are required to support the 541 service which operates a return trip to Kendal, once a week for the villages of Crook, Winster, Bowness, Underbarrow, Crosthwaite and Brigsteer.
Local People are being sought to drive a 16 seat, fully accessible “Community Wheels” minibus as provided by Cumbria County Council. Volunteers will need to possess a full UK driving licence and be under 76 years of age.
Volunteers will be provided with CRB checks and training to a MiDAS standard (Minibus Driver Awareness scheme) and volunteer mileage expenses will be covered at a cost of 45p per mile.
We are seeking to recruit a number of drivers to enable us to develop a flexible approach with the commitment from volunteers. This is a great opportunity to support your local community in the picturesque Lyth Valley.
Anybody interested in becoming a volunteer driver or wanting further details regarding what’s involved please contact: (Caroline Watson, Community Transport Officer, on 01228 226721)
Click HERE for the CCC discussion on the Service 541.
Cumbria Community Messaging (CCM) is managed by the Cumbria Neighbourhood Watch Association (CNWA). It offers People and Communities across Cumbria the means to receive information from Agencies in the County tailored to their particular preferences for content, priority and means of communication. It is a web based system and registration is quick, simple and completely free. There are no contracts, costs or obligations of any kind.
Cumbria messaging service is a two way communication system designed to put you in touch with the people and services in Cumbria.
Click on https://www.cumbriacommunitymessaging.co.uk/ and sign up.
Click HERE to go to the Exchange web page.
Click HERE to view a video that Cumbria Action made at the Exchange.
Carolyn Ashcroft Dip CFHP, MPS Pract.
Foot Health Practitioner
Argles Memorial Hall - some Wednesdays at the Exchange by appointment.
Tel; 01539 739259
Mobile: 07470 97647
Click HERE to see what Action with Communities in Cumbria (ACT) (formerley Voluntary Action Cumbria (VAC)) think about our Exchange in their publication - "The Exchange at Crosthwaite - A Guide to Establishing an Exchange in your area.
Pictures and up to date information on the Exchange can be found at http://www.cumbriaaction.org.uk/resources/toolkits; you will see that Exchanges are County wide now!!
The Lyth Valley First Responders Group is now very much in being. 34 people from the 5 villages involved (Brigsteer, Crook, Crosthwaite, Underbarrow & Witherslack) are now in training supervised by the North West Ambulance Service and the intention is to become operational during May this year.
We still need further volunteers to be trained as Responders and to help with fund raising.
Please contact the Secretary: John Holmes. 015395 68599, 07876 560053 or
Roll out of fibre broadband is now in full swing across Cumbria and has arrived in Crosthwaite, Grigghall and surrounding the area.
The Connecting Cumbria project to build a fibre network around the county is ahead of schedule. The multi-million pound project will run until 2018 and more than 128,000 business and home premises can now benefit from the superfast technology since the first connections were made in October 2013. Including commercial rollout, over 90% of premises in Cumbria now have access to fibre broadband. Nearly 500 homes and businesses around Crosthwaite can upgrade to Ultrafast broadband (up to 300mbs), with more to come in 2017.
Using the internet delivers great benefits to everyone; getting better deals, saving money, gaining new skills and qualifications, finding a better job, more support at home, keeping in touch with family and friends as well as access to new services and support from GP’s, the NHS, local and national government.
The financial benefits of using the internet can range from around £1000 per year for a new user to £3500 for an advanced user who is able to access the best deals and offers online or learn a whole new skill via a free online course. That’s worth around £500k per year (every year) to people in the area.
For business, superfast delivers access to new technology and solutions that can help a business reduce costs, deliver better service and help to differentiate your business as well as offering new revenues and opportunities. For hotels, B&B’s and holiday lets there are new services that your customers now expect.
Find out more at http://www.connectingcumbria.org.uk or watch out for posters and cards with details of the workshop
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