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The next Parish Council Meeting (Ordinary Meeting) will be held on 8th January 2025 @ 6.30pm in the Village Hall. 

 

Stanton Fitzwarren Parish Council is looking for a New Parish Clerk & Responsible Financial Officer

The Parish of Stanton Fitzwarren is looking for a new, part-time Clerk/RFO.

The post is interesting and varied and requires a self-motivated person to oversee all Parish Council workings. This includes liaising with councillors, Swindon Borough Council and residents as required.  Good computer skills and basic accountancy knowledge will be needed and preferably some understanding of council procedures.

Duties would include:

·        Preparing and distributing the Agenda for each Parish meeting

·        Recording and producing Minutes for each meeting

·        Maintaining the Parish Council website

·        Maintaining the Parish Facebook page

·        Maintaining the Parish email box and responding to any queries from the public or outside bodies

·        Maintaining the Parish accounts on Excel and producing accounting reports to be signed off in meetings

·        Paying suppliers

·        Completing and submitting the Annual Return form at Financial Year End

·        Working with internal auditors at Year end

·        Creating and monitoring a detailed budget

·        Submitting a precept request to Swindon Borough Council once the budget is approved.

 

The role is home based, with flexible hours, and ideally the Clerk would be someone who lives locally and knows the area well. The Clerk will also need to attend bi-monthly Council meetings, currently the 1st Wednesday of the relevant month. Additional meetings may need to be attended as required.

Training seminars and mentoring is available to help the Clerk if required.

The post is for 12 hours/month renumeration with expenses for use-of-home.

Expected start date will be in early December 2024, with one months overlap with current Clerk to allow handover before our current Clerk leaves.

Please contact Councillor Tom Charnock at tomc@stantonfitzwarren-pc.gov.uk or telephone Tom for an informal chat on 07827 871804

 

PUBLIC NOTICE

SWINDON BOROUGH COUNCIL SECTION 14 - THE ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 NOTICE OF TEMPORARY CLOSURE – PROW FOOTPATH 7 and 8, STANTON FITZWARREN

This Order is being introduced on health and safety grounds due to construction and will impose a closure of PROW footpath SF7 between Mill Lane and PROW FP SF6 and PROW footpath SF8.  

Alternative route A signed route through Stanton Fitzwarren Country Park and the Old Railway line.

The Order comes into the force on the 27 May 2024 for 6 months.

Strategic Transport 16 April 2024

For further information please contact NetworkCoordination@swindon.gov.uk quoting reference STR000831.   

 


 


 


Welcome to the Stanton Fitzwarren Parish Council Website in Wiltshire, England.

The website is run by Stanton Fitzwarren Parish Council for the benefit of villagers and anyone who has an interest in our village.

We have photos of Stanton Fitzwarren, village news, events, local services and information from the Parish Council.

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Stanton Fitzwarren is 2 miles SW of Highworth, 4 miles NE of Swindon. Grid Ref SU178902. Postcode SN6 7SE. Population 188 in 1831, 157 in 1951, the latest census (2011) shows the population was 226.

We hope you find our website useful and would welcome your comments and feedback on anything related to this site, its contents or Stanton Fitzwarren. 
Stanton Fitzwarren still clearly keeps to the layout of the medieval village that could so easily have been described at the end of the 14th Century as;

Staunton Fitz Waryn, “The farm by the stone” held by the Fitz Waryn family, of 50 tax payers, it is located to the south-west of Hegheworth (Highworth). It is a small linear shaped village with the manor and church at the top end of the street, the mill at the bottom end and the serfs cots between.

Stanton Fitzwarren today still lines the main street although roads lead into and out of the village, At the South end of the village is a hotel (the former manor house) and next to it is the Church of St. Leonard. This is a grade I listed building dating from the 13th & 14th Centuries. However it is the late 12th Century Norman font, possibly from an earlier church burnt down in the 13th century, that earns the church its grade I listing.
 Also of interest is much of the disused/dismantled Swindon to Highworth Light Railway is so apparent in todays Stanton Fitzwarren village:
The Swindon and Highworth Light Railway between Highworth Junction on the Great Western Main Line and Highworth was built through Stanton Fitzwarren in 1879-81 but the original company was unable to open the line and sold it to the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1882.[6] In 1883 the GWR finally opened the line to traffic, with three intermediate stations including Stanton.[6]British Railways withdrew passenger services in 1953, apart from workmen's trains that it continued to run until 1962.[6] Most of the line, including the section through Stanton, was then dismantled.[6]


Stanton Fitzwarren also has Stanton Park in our "backgarden". A place for peace and tranqulity, for walkers and countryside enthusiasts!
Size:
18.83 ha (46.53 acres)

Grid reference:
SU175896

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Stanton Park is a 74 hectare estate which includes ancient remnants of broadleaved woodland, grassland and fishing lake. It is also a local nature reserve with many habitats for wildlife, 900 species of fungi and wild flower meadows. It is also the site of a Roman villa (no visible remains however). There is a large car park with toilet block on site.



Located in the churchyard is the village War Memorial. The cross was erected in 1916 and the names of those from the village who fell in the Great World War were added later. The cross is grade II listed.

Other listed buildings of interest in the village are the barn at North Farm, the Old Rectory, Mill Cottage (Listed as Stanton Mill) and the “Bamford’s Frost Protected lift pump” of 1902.

The listed buildings of the village clearly demonstrate the use of locally quarried coral ragstone with Highworth brick as the traditional building materials. Originally most of the buildings would have been thatched. Today thatch can still be found although Cotswold Stone and Welsh Slates predominate. Cotswold stone for walling purposes is not traditional to the area, being a totally different stone to the local Coral Ragstone.

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