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Church Services for Mothering Sunday
with posies for the children
14 March 2010

10am Newtimber
6pm Pyecombe

Click here for Easter Services in all our churches

Why not join the Easter Egg hunt at Pyecombe
followed by a very short service

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Fancy looking round Poynings without leaving your chair?
Well, now you can, Sheila has put up some brilliant pictures of Poynings here
If you want to see them as a slide show then click the button nearly at the top on the right. Or click here
To be even more impressed, then click the full screen button (four arrows) on the bottom right hand side.

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Springs Smoked Salmon
10% Off Everything
On production of voucher
at their shop in Edburton
Offer ends 20^th March
Click here for Voucher

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Fairtrade Fortnight
22 February to 7 March 2010

Poynings Church is supporting fair-trade fortnight by selling rice! They have pledged to sell 90kg of long grain rice from Malawi over the next few weeks. The rice is long grain rice, suitable for curries, and costs £2.75 per kilo. If a farmer in Malawi sells 90kg of rice at a fair price, that gives sufficient income to send a child to high school for a year.

 

The rice is currently in Caroline’s study at the Rectory - do call or ring (01273 857456) or e-mail  if you would like to help us sell it or if you would like more details. Happy to deliver in the village.

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Poynings Village Fete
This is a little later this year, Saturday 26th June.

Wanted: Land for Smallholding

There are a growing number of people in the area, who have expressed an interest in organically raising their own livestock on a small scale basis.

We are therefore looking for an initial 1 or 2 acres of land locally, with easy access, appropriate for farming pigs.

It is our dream to grow this into a 'River Cottage' style community based project involving any locals interested in participating and learning about the grass roots aspects of smallholding.

Please contact Stephen or Lesley on 834610 if you have any land that may be appropriate or if you would just like to add your details to the growing list of interested smallholders!

 POYNINGS SNOWMEN 2010

 

Thank you for sending these pictures to me, if you made a snowman send me a picture and I will put it here.

 

 

 

LOST DOG IN POYNINGS

You must have heard about the lost dog spotted in Poynings.

 

She actually went missing from Hove on October 31st, and is now seen regularly and fed so there is a good chance she will be caught.
She looks like a leonberger cross.
Rusty gold colour (fawn) fluffy coat (probably soaking wet though!)

 

 2. If anyone finds her wandering in their garden, this may be the best hope of capturing her. If gates can be closed around her (without intimidating her), this would be ideal. Food could then be used to keep her 'interested' - she particularly likes raw meat, especially fish.

 

3. She is a bit daft! She doesn't understand roads, and if chased she may end up underneath a car.

 

4. If spotted give Craig a call on 07886 271 411

 

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

   

Poynings has a 14th century cruciform Church and if you look at the front of the porch you will see that it is made of flints so beautifully shaped that they fit together like bricks. In the Apex of the porch gable you can just see a carved shield which isn't mentioned in any guide books. The arms are those of the Poynings family. The brothers Thomas and Richard de Poynings built the church as it now stands in 1370. This coat of Arms can also be seen on the village sign opposite the church at Cora's corner. Cora's memory lingers here with the corner named after her and a walk, along which has a series of seats presented by the Emile Littler Foundation. There is also a pub, playing field, cricket pitch (which is well maintained by trained sheep), school/village hall and lots of interesting people.

South and uphill of Poynings is the Devil’s Dyke, a steep coombe, surmounted by an Iron Age fort and provides superb views of the South Downs westwards across to Chanctonbury ring and northwards over the Weald. A railway used to run here from Brighton until the late 1930's which was packed with hysterical day-trippers. A raised bank by the row of cottages below the hotel was the end of the line. If you look carefully, you can still find in the banks on either side of the Dyke, the footings of the structure which strung cable cars across the gulf around the turn of the century. A hundred yards to the east of the restaurant car park there is a slab of concrete for the funicular railway which shot down the steep slope to Poynings from 1897.

The Old School is now the village hall, and in the village centre nestles Glebe Cottage, constructed from flint, with a slate roof and tiny windows.

This is a community site so please visit it often and don't forget to add your views on our Forum. Especially the younger ones in the village (Must be over 1 month).

Even the wildlife are a bit strange!

 

I hope you will find this easy to use and will encourage more of you to give me some feedback, information and gossip!!

I make no apologies to shamelessly plagiarizing Sheila's hard work on the Newsletter, and all the other contributors.

Contact Colin at

On the left hand side you should see links to other parts of the site and some offsite links.

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This site is listed in the British Towns and Villages Encyclopaedia of Great Britain and we can be found in the entry for Poynings