Usu­ally found cut­ting, saw­ing, mow­ing, trim­ming and car­ry­ing, the Church­yard Gang are rarely seen any­where together other than in the Church­yard. How­ever, once a year a lunch in the local is enjoyed, although with a little liquid refresh­ment. Our young­est mem­ber (fore­ground), lowers the aver­age age con­sid­er­ably and Buzz Lightyear is now a reg­u­lar member […]

Fol­low­ing a hugely enjoy­able and suc­cess­ful even­ing last year, Two Coats Colder are vis­it­ing Salt­wood Church again. The even­ing will begin at 7:30pm, Sat­urday 9th March 2013 at Salt­wood Church. Tick­ets are avail­able from Val Adams at a cost of £7 each, and dona­tions will be invited towards the wine dur­ing the inter­val. Although tick­ets will be […]

Fif­teen couples joined us for our Mar­riage Pre­par­a­tion Day for Lympne and Salt­wood par­ishes, held at Lympne CofE Primary School and led by Revd Nich­olas Cooper. We reflec­ted on our past, future and present before think­ing about sex, chil­dren, com­mu­nic­a­tion, deal­ing with con­flict and faith. The after­noon was roun­ded off with con­sid­er­a­tion of the practical […]

Thanks to Aly Mal­com and her team for organ­ising our children’s work­shop in Church. The theme was the Epi­phany – the visit of the Magi. FUn was had by all and there was an unex­pec­ted visit from Has­san, who seemed to have prob­lems park­ing his camel…

Our churches, espe­cially those that are old, are a price­less national her­it­age of art and his­tory that must be pre­served for future gen­er­a­tions. In view of this, the National Asso­ci­ation of Dec­or­at­ive and Fine Art Soci­et­ies (NADFAS for short) has for many years run a church record­ing pro­gramme. A group of enthu­si­astic people visit a […]

Thank you to Claire White­head and her hand­bell choir (no singing just ringing!)  for enrich­ing Christ­mas for the many folk in our nurs­ing and care homes by vis­it­ing and play­ing car­ols dur­ing the fest­ive sea­son. They also trav­elled across the par­ish bound­ary to ring with the Sal­va­tion Army in the Great Hall at Lympne Castle. […]

The Rt Revd Tre­vor Will­mott, Bishop of Dover, and his wife Mar­garet, came to our Joint Ser­vice on the First Sunday of Christ­mas. In addi­tion to preach­ing and presid­ing, Bishop Tre­vor licensed Mr Wil­liam Fit­tall as a Lay Reader in the Dio­cese of Can­ter­bury, hav­ing pre­vi­ously served as a Lay Reader in the Dio­cese of […]

On Sat­urday 13 Octo­ber 2012 a peal was suc­cess­fully rung to mark the 100th anniversary of the re-casting of five of the Salt­wood Church bells and the ded­ic­a­tion of a a new tenor. It took 2 hrs 44 min. Being three extents each of Kent T.B. & Oxford T.B. & one of Plain Bob. 1 Stephen J. Davis […]