Quick links to facilities near Compton

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What's on in February 2012

Wednesdays: Knit & Natter, Tea Shop, 3.30pm-5pm
Fridays: Meat Raffle, Village Club, 8pm

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Watts Art Club, Watts Gallery, 10.45am-1.15pm
Bingo, Village Club, 8pm
Wedding Fair, Loseley Park, 11am-4pm
Coffee Morning, Old Barn, 10am
Watts Book Group, Tea Parlour, 3pm-5pm
Village Hall Committee, 8pm, Committee Room
Garden Club talk, Marwick Hall, 8pm
Jazz @ The Cavern, Freeholders, Farncombe, 8pm
Colin’s BBQ, Village Club, 8pm. See notice board for advance booking details
Family Workshop, Watts Gallery, 11am-1pm or 1pm-4pm
Quiz & Ploughman’s, Village Club, 7.30pm
Bingo, Village Club, 8pm
Rector’s Last Sunday
Coffee Morning, Old Barn, 10am
Deadline for the March NEWS
Watts Lecture, Charterhouse (Hall), 6.30pm
Adult Art Course, Great Studio, Limnerslease, 10.30am-4pm
Live Band Classic Tracks, 8pm. See notice board for details.

Compton is one of Surrey's most picturesque villages, with a wide variety of period listed buildings, a wealth of history and for those who seek it, a community spirit reminiscent of yester-year.

Parish Council Minutes

2012 Village Guide

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10th, 17th – Adult Art Class, Great Studio, Limnerslease, 10.30am-4pm
CLT auditions for An Ideal Husband, Village Hall, 3pm
Annual Parish Meeting, Village Club, 7pm
Compton Common Clearance, 10am
Parish Council meeting, Committee Room, 7pm

Watts Cemetery Chapel

Residents may also ACCESS details of those buried at Watts Cemetery from 1896 - 1990

LOOKING FOR A BUILDER?

Paul Monks refurbished and currently lives at Chapel Lodge in Down Lane (previously the Cemetery Caretaker’s house)

Surrey Superfast
Broadband Report

April

Titanic Revealed, Borough Hall, Godalming, 7pm
Village Association AGM, Village Hall, 8pm

THIS YEAR’S FETE

The date for the 2012 Fete is Saturday 19th May and will celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee. If you have ideas for how we can make it a special Jubilee Fete, please contact David Crick (810532, pandcrick@waitrose.com) or Ken Miller (810522, kwm415@btinternet.com).
Put the date in your diary now and let’s make it a Fete to remember!

and is hoping to build up some clients in the local area. He will undertake home maintenance and repairs, carpentry, painting,
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building work. Call him on
07973 305948 if there are
jobs that need doing that you
can’t manage yourself.

What do Richard Jefferies, Mary Wondrausch and Jane Turner have in common?

They form the COMPTON TRIPTYCH having all had their portraits sculpted in local clay by Jon Edgar.

See HERE for further details

Klean Kitchen

Oven Cleaning Specialists

Klean Kitchen offers 100% clean and safe bio friendly oven and kitchen appliance cleaning services. Based in Puttenham, conceived in Compton.
£5 Discount with the NEWS voucher.
Call 0330 660 0322 and quote “Compton NEWS”
www.kleankitchen.co.uk

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Preliminary data available for Watts Chapel 1896-1990

Burial information for Watts Cemetery is now available from 1896 to 1990. The remaining data is a work in progress and is likely to be added to this database within the next six months, after which the site will be further developed.

A link to the preliminary version can be found HERE.

Compton Parish Council acknowledges the enormous amount of work carried out by the late Michael Palmer and Mrs. Doramie Rothwell.Thanks also to Cllr. Haskins and Cllr. Curtis and Clerk Joanna Cadman for recent work.

See a film clip of Compton Potteries in 1933
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