White Horse Folk Night continue

March 4th saw the third White Horse Folk Night of 2020. As well as Judith & Nick Hooper there were a large number of musicians, singers and poets, some familiar and some new. The audience enjoyed a wide range of music and song, as well as White Horse hospitality....

South Oxfordshire to discuss local plan

South Oxfordshire District Council is holding a special cabinet meeting to discuss leaving the area’s local plan at examination after the housing secretary issued a holding direction preventing its withdrawal. Because of the holding direction, the council cannot take...

Celebration of Slate 500th issue

On Saturday 29th February a large number of Stonefield residents turned up at St James’ Centre for the celebration of the 500th issue of The Stonesfield Slate. Richard Morris had arrange a display of the Slate’s archive which included every issue since the Slate...

March 2020 500th Slate

This month the Slate is celebrating its 500th edition. In December 1976 the first edition of The Stonesfield Slate was published… it was the brainchild of Gordon Rudlin. Congratulations to all the volunteers who, over the past 43 years, have kept Gordon’s idea going....

POSTPONED: SUSTO – what next?

Public meeting in the Village Hall at 7.30 pm on Monday 23 March Following two years of intensive work on housing issues, which culminated in our victory over CALA on the Woodstock Road, SUSTO is now considering what to do next. We formed our group in 2017 in response...

OCC start sign repair programme

In 2019 SAFER surveyed all the road traffic signs in Stonesfield and provided OCC with a list of those needing repair. Laughton Hill Sign 2019 SAFER have continued to follow up this with OCC and are pleased that OCC have now started the promised programme of repair /...