Youth work in Ashwell

Ashwell is a thriving lively village of approximately 1,700 people in North Hertfordshire and a place where many long to live as it is an active village community with able and gifted people. The village is close to the borders of Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire and is approximately 8 miles north of Baldock.

 

Ashwell village from the Tower

A ridge of chalky hills to the south which includes an Iron Age hill fort, Arbury Banks gives way to a line of springs, which form one of the sources of the River Cam. The land around the village is farmed, mostly arable, but with a dairy herd at Bluegates farm.

There is a railway station about two miles out of the village, and a limited regular bus service to the station, Royston and Baldock. The A1 and A505 roads come within a few miles of the village.

Ashwell Springs

St Mary's parish church with 143 on the electoral roll is at the centre of the village, with a beautiful tall tower that is often illuminated, and is visible for miles around. St Mary's has good links with the United Reform Church in the village, and there is also a Zoar Baptist Chapel which is regularly used. The church also has excellent links with the popular and oversubscribed village primary school. For example, the Harvest Festival is celebrated at St Mary's and the URC alternately.

Inside the Church

From the primary school the majority of children go on to Knights Templar School in Baldock although others go to a variety of state and private schools in the area.

Ashwell is fortunate in having very good services within the village. There is a post office, doctor, dentist, chemist, butcher, baker, general store, florist and greengrocer, three pubs, a museum, a village hall and playing fields with a playground and skate ramp. There are many clubs, societies and charity groups too.
At St Mary's chruch there is a large junior choir in addition to the adult choir and three Sunday school groups accommodating children from four up to fifteen currently.

St Mary's has a church room, which is used for Sunday school, teas, soup lunches and hired out to groups and for functions. This room is modernized and well equipped with a kitchen and toilets.

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