What’s the problem? Our grade II* listed Church, dating from the mid 13th century, is in need of urgent repairs to its roof and walls. Major works were first identified as necessary in a routine inspection in 2001. Patch repairs over the last years have held the fabric together but the extent of urgent work …
A planning application has been submitted to VWHDC to construct 5 new houses with carports on Prior’s Lane, just north-east of the junction with High Street and The Row. This application will be discussed at a Parish Council meeting in the Village Hall on Monday 23 March at 8:00 pm. Please attend this meeting if …
As of this morning, Gigaclear’s web site is showing that we’ve hit the 100% target for the number of orders needed to justify extending their network to cover Longworth and Hinton. Thank you to all those of you who ordered the service, and so made it possible for us to get the best broadband available …
Gigaclear, the Oxfordshire-based provider of ultrafast broadband services, is now taking orders for its service from residents in Hinton. Gigaclear only opened up to registrations of interest from Hinton and Longworth on 10 January this year. In just 10 days it must have seen an impressive level of interest to start taking orders so quickly. We’re …
Oxfordshire County Council has been in touch with local Parish Councils to notify everyone that they are reviewing contracts for subsidised bus routes. In their letter the number 63 route, which connects Hinton and Longworth with Oxford, is noted as “entire service is under review”. This appears to suggest that they may consider discontinuing this …
BT has started work to upgrade Longworth’s and Hinton’s broadband infrastructure. This is a major step towards fulfilling their commitment to provide faster broadband service by the end of 2014. These photos show construction work taking place at Cabinet 3 in Longworth. Cabinet 3 is where all of Hinton’s and Duxford’s phone lines are connected, …
BT has just updated its superfast broadband availability Web site and is now showing that work to upgrade broadband service to Hinton is scheduled to begin by December 2014. That’s an improvement over the date previously published, which said “work will begin in 2015”.
The small team behind this Website has been discussing the plan to build the site for a few months. We’re all quite busy people and we haven’t made a lot of progress producing content, but we thought we might as well make the site live, and then fill in the content as we go along. …