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2001 |
Foot and Mouth sweeps the country.A parishioner writes, April 29th: "Our footpaths are still closed. Foot and Mouth has hit a couple of farms nearby, and the complete slaughter policy - the farm itself and contiguous farms - has hit hard. One of the local foot and mouth cases turned out after the slaughter - once the laboratory test was back in - to have been a mistake, although the government still treat it statistically as a confirmed case... The burning of massed carcases smells, as you'd expect, like a giant barbecue...We had a very bad night of it recently, when the wind either changed, or they decided for political reasons to fire the corpses at dusk. The house was engulfed in smoke from Cheltenham way." From 2021: "Foot and mouth disease: 20 years since the disease devastated Gloucestershire". |
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2003 |
Wormington gets its very own speed-limit, along with speed-limit signs |
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2007 |
6 February. Cut off by snow. Village adults and children celebrate: roll snow up the road into a giant snowball, build the Great Wormington Snowman.
20 July. The Great Flood of 2007 (on the last day of school before summer) Children at school in Cheltenham can't get home around flooded roads, and spend night, with picking-up parent, in the Play Barn of a motel in Tewkesbury; getting out next morning just before Tewkesbury is completely cut off. Electricity stays on throughout, but over the next several weeks it was cold baths in rainwater, drinking water in bottles, and a bowser on the village green. |
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2010 |
December. Cut off from the world: snowbound. Vicar can't get in for carols and readings on 19th, and a villager steps in to take the service. Nearly full moon, and river frozen around the bridge. |
2011 |
April 29: Royal Wedding Street Party. Road through Wormington closed from noon till nine. |
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2020 -2021 |
Covid and the Pandemic: an event so immense it consumed two years and changed the lives of all of us. A special set of pages launched on March 23, 2025 to mark the fifth anniversary of the announcement of the first Lockdown: - Home page: The Pandemic and Wormington - St. Katharine's in the Pandemic - Making Hearts and Sewing for the NHS - Pandemic and Food: The PCC-WVS Takeaways |
2022
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2023 |
April 1: Wormington Civil Parish officially comes into existence again, after almost a century |
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