Parish Council Meetings

The Annual Parish Meeting will be held on Thursday 23rd April at 6.30pm in the Social Club

The Annual Meeting of the Parish Council will be held on Thursday 14th May at 7pm in the Parish Room

in the Woodborough Parish Room.

Forthcoming Road Closures

The C261 through Woodborough (beyond the garden centre) will be closed for ten days from 7th April for urgent wall repairs.

The road through Bottlesford will be closed for three days from 20th April for urgent treeworks.

The Sands - resurfacing information - 30th April- 4th May The C38 Woodbridge Inn to Alton Priors will be closed between 30th April and 4th May for the next stage of resurfacing works. If you require further information about the resurfacing process, please look at Highways maintenance overview - Wiltshire Council

The A345 will be closed at Pewsey Wharf for two nights from 7th May.

Full details of all local road closures can be found at Causeway one.network

Community ENERGY REPORT

Suggestions for locations in the Pewsey and Manningford areas for future solar and wind energy projects can be perused in this report. Find out more and complete the survey at Pewsey Green until 30th April.

Green Vale is a related but unconnected new project being launched at Burbage Village Hall on 21st April. Find out more at Green Vale Project Launch | Pewsey Community Are

WESSEX WATER COMMUNITY DROP-INS

Do you have a query about your water bill, how to save water and prevent blockages, or your water and sewerage services?

@wessexwater will be holding a drop-in session to answer all your water related questions at Devizes Library Sheep Street, Devizes, Wiltshire SN10 1DL on Tuesday 12th May at 10-12 & 1-2

To find out more, visit: https://www.wessexwater.co.uk/community-drop-ins

Scottish and Southern Electricity Network Priority Register

Anybody with children under the age of 5, or anybody over the age of 60, or anybody with electricity-dependent vulnerabilities can apply to be added to the SSEN Priority Register for extra, immediate support in the event of a power cut. The application form is available here.

General updates

Summer 2025 Newsletter

Spring 2025 Newsletter

In view of some posts on WhatsApp, and a few emails/letters to the parish council, please peruse this Rationale, for the planned extension to the pavement along the C261 (between Leabinloch and the stream), in conjunction with the older Summary of Traffic Management, November 2023, to be found on the documents page.

The final design for the pavement extension, produced by Wiltshire Highways, can be viewed here. The worsk are currently on hold due to the need for SSE to resolve an underground cable entwined by tree roots.

Woodborough, Wiltshire

The attractive rural civil parish of Woodborough is set almost in the middle of the Vale of Pewsey in Wiltshire, and lies within the North Wessex Downs Landscape Trust, formerly named an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is almost equidistant from the market towns of Devizes and Marlborough and 3 miles west of the village of Pewsey. There is a spectacular White Horse clearly visible on the escarpment just a few miles to the north, by Alton Barnes. As a result of a massive effort by the Woodborough community area it was completely re-chalked in 2019, with considerable help from an RAF Chinook.

Read more about the history of the White Horse here and read more about the re-chalking exercise here.

Walkers Are Welcome

Woodborough is one of the parishes within the Pewsey Community Area Partnership so will be included in the latest Walkers Are Welcome initiative. More information as to how this will benefit the Pewsey Vale can be found here. Accreditation has now been achieved - please see the press release for further information about this and view the certificate here.

Woodborough Parish Rooms

The Parish Rooms Management Committee would welcome one or two more volunteers to help with the upkeep of the garden and other low level maintenance (aka odd jobs!)

Please contact the Clerk to find out more.