Great Gidding welcomes guests from Denmark for Laura and Mads beautiful wedding

On a gloriously hot and sunny day, the wedding took place in St Michael’s Church on Saturday 18th August of Laura Burgess to Mads Jørgensen. Photo: Charles Gervais cg-bh@bothhemispheres.com Laura is currently the Rector of St Botolph without Aldgate in London, whilst Mads is a freelance Media

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Summer baptisms in Great Gidding

There were two Baptisms in St Michael’s Church in July, welcoming two young people into the Christian community in Great Gidding. Firstly on Sunday 8th July, the baptism of Alice Helen Nunns took place. Mum and Dad, Charlotte and Michael Nunns, moved into Ludington Road last August.

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Get Cambridgeshire Connected – Join the broadband campaign!

Get Cambridgeshire Connected – Join the broadband campaign!

You can help to bring fast, reliable broadband to Peterborough and Fenland, which is vital for our businesses and communities to thrive. The plan is to provide access to superfast broadband to at least 90% of homes and businesses across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and better broadband access

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Mary’s ringing has ap’peal’

Many congratulations to Mary Read on ringing her first Quarter Peal ‘inside’ of Plain Bob and Grandsire Doubles. A Quarter Peal is about 45 minutes continuous bell ringing requiring a high level of concentration and ringing skill. Mary was one of six ringers who rang at Holywell

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The Great Gidding Close Up Quiz – The Answers

The Great Gidding Close Up Quiz - The Answers

Welcome to The Great Gidding Close up Quiz. If you lived in the village at the time of the Golden Jubilee celebration in 2002 you will recall that we offered a paper based quiz that asked you to identify close up photographs of certain locations around the Parish

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Great Gidding recreation ground now a QEII field.

Great Gidding recreation ground now a QEII field.

For the Queens Jubilee the Parish Council had applied for a Fields in Trust grant to safeguard the village recreation ground. So all of the legal paperwork has been done (for free) and now the recreation field can officially be called a Queen Elizabeth II Field (www.qe2fields.com).

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Rounders and The Diamond Jubilee Big Lunch – photos

Rounders and The Diamond Jubilee Big Lunch - photos

After a very wet Sunday (see Michael’s Jubilee Wood report) we were all glad to see a glimmer of blue sky for the Diamond Jubilee Big Lunch and village rounders match on the Recreation Field. With a marquee to shelter from the predicted showers the villagers tucked

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