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Black Horse Renovation
Everyone in the village is having to cope with the closure of Mawby's Lane while repairs are carried out to the Black Horse Inn. There are pictures of the renovations on the village Facebook page. Read more about the renovation here.
Remember Last Year?
Picture taken last winter by Marjorie Colver - click for larger view
There are more pictures of Appleby in our Photo Galleries, and in our Photography Competitions pages.
Bin Day timetable (and other useful information)
Don't forget the bin men are coming on Thursdays now. Details of this and other services to the village (including emergency numbers, mobile library times and public transport) can all be found from our Services page.
Appleby Achieves!
Appleby has had great success in the Leicestershire Village Achievement awards, run by the Rural Community Council. Appleby Environment's Thermal Imaging project won the main prize in the Cleaner Greener Village category, and there were gold and silver awards for the Sir John Moore Foundation in the Community Hall and Community categories. Full details here.
MP Constituency Changes?
The review of English parliamentary boundaries has been launched. It is proposed that the constituency of North West Leicestershire disappears and Appleby goes into a new constituency with Ashby and Market Bosworth. Coalville is in a separate, oddly shaped constituency with Castle Donington, Kegworth and parts of southern Nottinghamshire. That doesn't mean the District Council changes. The MP's constituency area would no longer be the same as the District Council's area.
It's just a consultation at this stage. For more details see the Boundary Commission's web site, and our proposed new constituency is in a pdf document here.
Appleby Census Information
We've added the final available census, 1911, to the set of transcripts of census data on the village history site. Chris Bee has worked tirelessly copying the text from the handwritten documents. Together with Richard Dunmore's analysis of the 1841 census in his In Focus series, the set provides researchers of Appleby families with a fantastic, comprehensive resource. Does any other village have as much family history information available as we do?
Domesday Reloaded
Appleby's section from the 1986 survey of the UK. This BBC site has contributions, mostly from school children at the time.
A Son of the Rectory - Now Available in Print
In October we published a new extended digital edition of Aubrey Moore's A Son of the Rectory, which gives an account of Aubrey's life growing up in the Old Rectory in the early 20th Century and describes the village, its people, its buildings and everyday life of the time. First published in 1982, and long out of print, we added previously unpublished material and an extra chapter by Aubrey's son, Peter Moore.
For those who still prefer 'real' books we can now offer printed copies: softback with comb-binding for £10.50 plus p&p and hardback for £25 plus p&p. If you would like to order one please contact Sonia, tel: 272327, email sonia @ applebymagna.org.uk, 14 Top Street.
Local Community Forum - Have Your Say
Community forums are for people to raise and discuss local issues with policymakers from the councils, police and health services. Appleby is part of the Ashby, Measham and Moira Community Forum which meets quarterly. Anyone can go along to these meetings to raise questions, or you can raise issues through the web site.
Community forum web site - Agenda of last meeting (pdf file)
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Contact Us
Appleby Magna website is run by Information Byway, a not-for-profit organisation, and is maintained by volunteers. Since 1998 the site has published regular news about the village and put together extensive information about its history.
We welcome contributions, but are unable to answer individual questions relating to family history. You can use the Appleby Discussion Board, which has been operating for some time as a Family History information board. Here you can ask questions or discuss any aspect of Appleby Magna's society or history, so if you haven't seen it already do have a look at it
To contact us email website @ applebymagna.org.uk or use the Comments Form
By post: Information Byway, The Moat House, 29 Mawby's Lane, Appleby Magna, Swadlincote DE12 7AA
If you want photographs taken of a community event (with no charge), contact our photographer Gillian Day by emailing bigsisterpromo @ btinternet.com
Views expressed by individual contributors are not necessarily the views of Information Byway cic. Material is copyright to our contributors, so please don't use without asking us first.
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