Author: thewordbird

Limpsfield Chart in History – a fascinating new full colour, illustrated book (including maps) that documents the history of Limpsfield Chart and the surrounding area – is now available for purchase.

Saturday 13th May 2023 is Surrey Day. Run by VisitSurrey in conjunction with BBC Radio Surrey, it’s a day when we celebrate everything that’s brilliant about our special corner of England.

We are particularly lucky in Limpsfield to live in the absolute best bit of Surrey (well, we think so anyway), with so much to do and see.

What do YOU love about our particular corner of Surrey and how will you spend Surrey Day?

Encourage bird life into your garden and help the local birds survive and thrive this Spring with the help of bird boxes made by the Men in Sheds from Oxted’s Woodhouse Centre. How will you customise yours?

THE OXTED HEALTH CENTRE is a very large health centre servicing a wide area that covers Limpsfield, Oxted and the surrounding areas.  They conduct over 8,000 appointments every month, which is over 1,000 more monthly appointments than before the pandemic.

Having existed on the site at 10 Gresham Road for generations, many people in Oxted and Limpsfield have used this health centre their whole life.

All health centres have been through a lot of change over the last few years and Oxted Health Centre is currently undergoing its own changes to develop and grow with the demands of our ever-growing community and will be sharing updates soon.

In the meantime, here are 10 things you may not know about how the OHC works and what it offers in terms of patient care…

Another little gem of a business that’s cropped up on Limpsfield High Street since lockdown is dermal filler specialist, Balman Aesthetics. Elle-Rae Balman from Reigate took over the salon space in October 2021, after the long-standing high street business Surrey Skin and Laser Clinic closed its doors. Since then, Elle has built up quite the business in our village.

Do not be alarmed! On Sunday 23 April 2023 at 3pm, there will be a national test of the UK Emergency Alerts service.

H2H Sensory Theatre in Crowhurst Lane, Oxted are applying to Your Fund Surrey for funding to renovate their barn to provide a fabulous community hub and working base forfuture generations of families and children with physical and learning disabilities.

All YOU have to do is register your support on the website by leaving a smiley face, a comment and your email. That’s it. And there are only FIVE days to do this. Just click on the link below.

https://yourfundsurreyproposals.commonplace.is/en-GB/proposals/head2head-theatre/step1

I hope that you are all well and that it will not be too long before we see each other again in person in the sunny Lecrin Valley.In the meantime, I thought I should give you an update on the fast-moving conditions here as we move towards a new normality…

If you’re a keen rambler or just an occasional walker, you may have heard of the GR-7, a famous walking route that extends throughout Europe, passing through some of the most beautiful countryside our continent has to offer. You may not know, however, that part of the GR-7 goes through our own, very lovely Lecrin Valley.