Meeting at 11am at Edstaston Village Hall (SY4 5RF) or 11.30am from Newtown School (SY4 5NU) to cycle to Wem Moss on quiet lanes (approximately 12 miles from Edstaston and 10 miles from Newtown) led by trained ride leaders.
View a map of the route through this link.
On arrival at Wem Moss the group will be met by a Meres and Mosses guide for a tour of this fascinating landscape and lunch (NB please bring your own picnic and drinks).
Cycle back to Newtown School at around 2.30pm…. or continue on to Edstaston Village Hall where refreshments (tea, coffee, cold drinks and cakes) will be available to purchase.
FREE
ALL AGES WELCOME (under 16s must be accompanied by a responsible adult)
For further information please phone Emma Bullard from the Travel Shropshire Team on 0799 008 6191 or look at Travel Shropshire website by using this link.
Please make sure your bike is roadworthy; with tyres pumped up and working brakes. “Hybrid” and mountain bikes will be most suitable for this ride – if you have a “road” bike with skinny tyres you may have to walk for a short unsurfaced section.
We will leave our bikes at Wem Moss for a short tour of the nature reserve on foot, so please bring bike locks. It’s recommended that you wear long trousers, long-sleeved tops and don’t wear sandals (even if the weather is hot!) as the ground at Wem Moss can be boggy and there are nettles and brambles.
The Home Front in WWI & WWII
Looking at the impact of the wars on the area – agriculture and food, and the role of women and children; organised by Austin & Christine Bridges, Angela Edwards, Shelagh Edwards, Alan Johnson and Oliver & Shelagh Richardson.
A tasting menu of WWII food will be available.
Further details available, follow this link
Town Walk: Notable Buildings in Wem led by local historian Tom Edwards.
Booking is essential, please contact wemcivic@wemlocal.org.uk.
Please note the meeting will be held on the first Thursday and not the Tuesday due to a prior booking of the Hall.
Visit to The National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire
Booking is essential, please contact wemcivic@wemlocal.org.uk
WWI – France & Flanders; a Wem & Surrounds perspective. The talk will concentrate on the West European Theatre. Alex Williamson who has toured the battlefields of this area will lead this event. Some individuals from Wem & Surrounds will be linked to the battles.
For further details, follow this link
You are invited to come and join our Annual Parish Meeting.
ANNUAL PARISH MEETING – EVERYONE WELCOME!
This is your opportunity to meet other parishioners and local councillors, raise questions, matters of current concern or future ambitions for our Parish.
Chris Taylor from Shropshire Council will be talking about Mobile/Broadband in the Parish.
Back for its eighth year, The Great British Spring Clean is the nation’s biggest mass-action environmental campaign.
Wem Rural Parish Council are again taking part in this Keep Britain Tidy campaign and are inviting more volunteers to join in to help pick up litter around the parish.
The event is being held on Saturday 15th April 2023 from 9.30am to 12noon.
Bin bags and litter pickers will be provided. Please wear high-viz clothing if you have any.
We will meet on the grass verge near the Lowe Noticeboard (please don’t stand on the road).
Wem Rural Parish Council would like to invite you to our business consultation event
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Drop in from 8am-10am on Wednesday 28th June 2023 at the Happy Cafe, Wem Industrial Estate, Soulton Road, Wem
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If you run a business that is in the parish then Wem Rural Parish Council would like to invite you to drop in for a FREE Breakfast from 8am-10am on Wednesday 28th June at the Happy Café on Wem Industrial Estate.
This is an opportunity for you to meet with other business leaders and find out more about what support is available for your business.
