Erpingham with Calthorpe

Visit the new Erpingham with Calthorpe Village Hall website.

On The Street in Erpingham (NR11 7QD). Run by a voluntary Committee for all the residents of the two parishes. Meetings of the Committee are usually on the first Wednesday of alternate months. Contact the Chair, Tony Moore 01263 768358.

• The Village Hall is the location of the Erpingham Multi-use Games Area (MUGA)

The Committee run regular events to raise funds for improvements and would welcome new ideas and fresh faces to help. There is a 200 Club which is an important source of funds for the Village Hall. It costs 25p per week and has £5 and £10 prizes every month, and a maximum prize of £150 twice per year. There are usually a few numbers available. Contact Jan Jeavons, 761620.

The Hall is available to hire for children’s parties, etc.

Bookings through Ros Horne 01263 761702.

Keeping in Touch

Keeping in Touch is the monthly newsletter for the Parishes of Alby with Thwaite, Aldborough, Calthorpe, Erpingham, Ingworth, and Thurgarton (the “Scarrowbeck” Group of Parishes).

Download the latest KiT from the Aldborough parish council website.

It is distributed by volunteers to every house and has details of forthcoming events, church services and notices, Parish Council notices etc. It also has a page of small ads for local services and businesses.

Did you know? This website is partly compiled from information from KiT, on a monthly basis.

Newspapers

There are several free newspapers/magazines in our part of north Norfolk including the Crab Tales, and the Just Regional series of magazines. They are obtainable from several local outlets including Alby garage and Alby Crafts.

The commercial newspaper is the North Norfolk News every Thursday, published by the same people who publish the Norfolk-wide EDP.

Notice boards

There are notice boards at:

• Aldborough, outside the Spar Stores
• Aylsham, on the East wall of the Town Hall
• Erpingham, on the wall of the Erpingham Arms.
• Erpingham, on the wall of the Village Hall (Parish Council and Village Hall notices).
• And outside the churches at Calthorpe and Erpingham

The wheelie bins are collected weekly on Thursdays – green bin one week, grey bin the next. The green bin is for recyclable waste and there is a strict list of allowable material. The grey bin is for non-recyclable waste, which goes to landfill.

There is also a garden waste collection service (brown bin) which is collected on the same Thursday as the green bin. This currently costs approx. £40 per year.

• You can check your bin collection dates online!

More information on collection dates and what can and can’t be recycled is available on the District Council’s Waste & Recycling pages.

Please put glass in the bottle banks outside the Village Hall. The village hall gets an income from these. There is a further glass re-cycling facility at The Erpingham Arms, which also supports the Village Hall.

The nearest household waste disposal sites are at Hilltop on the A148 near Sheringham and at Meeting Hill near North Walsham. These are operated by Norfolk County Council.

Buses

A Sanders bus runs through the villages, about 3 times per day in each direction between Aylsham or North Walsham and Holt or Cromer.

Timetables are posted on the bus stop opposite the Erpingham Arms and on the Aldborough Road junction in Calthorpe.

Sanders run a twice an hour service on the main road A140 between Cromer/Sheringham and Norwich. The stops are opposite the Alby Horseshoes and between the pub and the garage.

Aldborough Community Transport runs a service bus on Wednesdays from Aldborough.

The school bus between the village and Aylsham is a service bus which the public can use.

Aldborough Community Transport Minibus is available for hire with driver. 01263 761597

Trains

The Bittern Line runs from Sheringham to Norwich with an hourly service Monday to Saturday, and two-hourly on Sundays. The most convenient stations are at Cromer and North Walsham.

Taxis

Jill Boast  01263 732727

Fuel

Nearest places for purchase: Alby Garage, on A140 Roughton Garage, on A140 at Roughton.

Community Play Area. On The Street, west of the bowling green.

Opened in 2004 with equipment to suit younger and older children and seats for all ages.

Contact the Village Hall Committee.

Erpingham Primary. School Road. 10263 761365

• The headteacher has developed a strong, committed and effective team of staff and governors. Frequent checks on teaching and good training opportunities are used effectively to improve the quality of teaching and achievement.
• Pupils make good progress in reading, writing and mathematics. The ‘flexi-school’ timetable, used to allow individual pupils to be partly home educated, works very well.
• Teaching is good and sometimes outstanding. Activities are interesting and carefully planned to help each pupil build on their learning and progress well.
• Pupils behave well and feel safe in class and around the school.
• The development of a successful ‘leadership partnership’ with two other local schools has enabled the headteacher to closely monitor how well the school is performing.
• Excellent relationships exist between the school and parents. Many parents volunteer to provide pupils with wide ranging experiences in music, art and drama. This contributes to pupils’ strong spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.
• Pupils new to the school receive good support; they settle quickly and make good progress during their time in school.

Aldborough Primary. Alby Hill. 01263 761264

Colby Primary. Bridge Road. 01263 733381

Aylsham High School. Sir Williams Lane. 10263 733270.

Thwaite Common is registered common land with free access. There are paths, and
the Weaver’s Way public footpath crosses the common. Be warned that parts of the Common can be very wet, even in dry weather. Cattle graze on the Common during the summer months. It is managed by the District Council’s countryside team. 01263 513811.