The Big Village Clean Up 

Hi all, it's The Big Village Clean Up Week from Monday 31st March until Sunday 6^th April. We are setting up a separate WhatsApp group to coordinate this, if you are willing to spend some time helping tidy the village and all its lanes please PM me and I'll add you to the group so we can cover all the areas. Please feel free to call me for info if you prefer. Cheers Mark 07963 429603.

 

The Cheshire and Warrington Local Nature Recovery Strategy Consultation

The Cheshire and Warrington Local Nature Recovery Strategy and Local Habitat Map* are out for consultation NOW. Deadline is Monday 31^st of March. HAVE YOUR SAY on the priorities and actions for nature’s recovery over the next 10 years. Follow the link here to answer the survey: Cheshire and Warrington Local Nature Recovery Strategy consultation | Participate Now

If you are a farmer or a landowner, this is your opportunity to tell us whether you want your land submitted to benefit from Biodiversity Net Gain, Environmental Land Management Schemes, or private investment for the next 10 years and to help nature recover. This can be done through the survey in the link below.

If you are not a farmer or a landowner but there is an opportunity area for nature’s recovery that has been missed on the map, please submit it through the survey on our story map.

Please note that the Local Habitat map is not prescriptive but demonstrates the best possible places for the ecological network and habitat restoration and which can provide benefits for business and society through ecosystem services.

Please follow the link below to have your say on the map and the strategy: Cheshire and Warrington Local Nature Recovery Strategy

 

They have spent more than 18 months of hard work bringing people and organisations interested in caring about our wonderful habitats and species together to decide how we might act together to help nature across the area over the next 5-10 years.

It’s your chance to look at these ideas, priorities, and the places we think we need to concentrate on and TELL US what you think, let us know if there’s anything missing or that might need greater action. The strategy lists the things we think we need to achieve with maps to highlight areas of land that are currently or could be important to helping biodiversity thrive. The priorities will be linked to potential actions we can all take across Cheshire and Warrington to improve nature in the places we live and work, our landscapes, and to ensure a continued vibrant economy is supported by a healthy environment. For the strategy document and survey link, please follow this link: Cheshire and Warrington Local Nature Recovery Strategy consultation | Participate Now

As part of the Local Nature Recovery Strategy, a Local Habitat map was developed to show current designated sites and opportunity areas, where nature’s recovery may be beneficial. This mapping has a dual purpose, to highlight what may be possible, through suitable actions and to direct investment and support into specific areas, either through Biodiversity Net Gain, Grant funding applications, Environmental Land management schemes or private investment in the form of carbon, soil, or biodiversity credits. Please follow the link here for the local habitat map and survey: Cheshire and Warrington Local Nature Recovery Strategy

 

 

 

 

Antrobus is a large widespread rural parish with 33 roads and lanes that extend for some 36 miles criss-crossing an area of 4,145 acres of fertile agricultural land. There are 300 households and 630 electors. The village has evolved from a community of farming families to become a mixed community, who enjoy living in the countryside. This civil parish encloses within its boundary Crowley to the north, Sevenoaks/Frandley to the south west, and Gibb Hill to the south east.

In Antrobus you will find a Primary School, a large Village Hall, a volunteer run Shop with a Church, a Chapel, a Meeting House, a pub, a community garden and even a golf course! Well looked after, it has frequently won Community Pride awards.

The Community spirit is one of the best aspects of living in Antrobus, as typified by a monthly newsletter (hand delivered to every household), a Rose Queen Fete, popular events in the Village Hall all year round and carol singing (again to every household). In 2014 and 15 there was massive support for fund raising for the Church Roof Restoration and a successful VE Day celebration.

Antrobus. Derived from an old Norse or Danish man called Eindridi or Andridi and a ‘buscr’ meaning bush, ‘Entrebus’ was first mentioned in the Domesday Book. Antrobus existed on agriculture, thriving by supplying the demand from nearby towns, leading to the many fine Georgian farmhouses. Later the Northwich chemical industry set the beginnings of a trend towards a dormitory village with only 10% supported by farming.

The sections 'Your Village - Landmarks' and 'Your Community - Organisations and Heritage Books' give much more information.