NEWTON SOLNEY VILLAGE PROFILE - Newton Solney, Derbyshire
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  • NEWTON SOLNEY VILLAGE PROFILE - Newton Solney, Derbyshire
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  • NEWTON SOLNEY VILLAGE PROFILENewton Solney is a small village of about 750 people sitting above the south bank of the River Trent - a little over 3 miles to the east of Burton on Trent and some 2 miles from Repton. It is situated alongside the confluence of the Rivers Dove and Trent and visitors enjoy marvellous views of these rivers from the common land by the riverside, reached down Trent Lane.As part of the Millennium activities the village�s Women�s Institute has produced an enjoyable and lavishly illustrated booklet, �Newton Solney Remembered�, which is available at the village post office in Main Street. The community is proud of its successes in recent years in the �Best Kept Village Competition�. This year it won yet another of several awards in the �Britain in Bloom Competition� as well as gaining first place in the medium village category in �The Derbyshire Village of the Year Competition�. A great deal of effort is made by Parish Councillors and others to maintain and improve upon these high standards. For example more than 5000 spring flowering bulbs have been planted around the village during this autumn alone.St. Mary�s church is the oldest village building, dating back to the late 12th century, but heavily renovated in the late 1800s. Other significant features are the village shop and post office, two pubs (the Unicorn and the Brickmakers� Arms), the Newton Park Hotel, Infant School, Village Hall, and Almshouses. On the village outskirts is Bladon Castle, a late 18th century folly later changed to domestic use.Overnight accommodation is available at the Unicorn Inn and at Waterside off Newton Close. Full board is available at the Newton Park Hotel, which also offers magnificent views across the River Trent and its valley. The Unicorn also supports the local football team (surprisingly; The Unicorns) which plays on Sunday mornings on the recreation groundThere is a great deal of community activity in the village, much of it centred on the Village Hall. This accommodates activities such as thriving Pre-School and Parent and Toddler groups ... Women�s Institute ... Bowls ... Tennis and Badminton section ... Young people�s badminton training sessions ... Snooker ... Aerobics ... An Art Group ... The Tuesday Club for the village�s older members ... Practice sessions for a Junior Community band. Other activities in the hall from time to time include village dances, private parties, the annual Horticultural, Produce, Art and Craft Show and occasional Rabbit Shows. A highlight of each year is the annual cricket match between teams representing the two village pubs. This takes place every August Bank Holiday Monday. This year the Brickmaker�s Arms (Brickies) holds the trophy.Walking is another activity enjoyed by many people in the village - so much so that monthly walks are organised in various parts of Derbyshire. Newton Solney Parish itself contains one bridle way and seventeen footpaths totalling almost 9 miles of country walking. Several of these link up to the footpath network of adjoining Parishes and so form circular routes, some of which allow massive panoramic views into the Derbyshire Peak District and Staffordshire Moorland areas in clear weather.Newton Solney school, in Trent Lane, is a Church of England Aided Infant School with between 60 and 70 children aged between 4 and 7 years. It has always enjoyed considerable success and is proud of its last OFSTED report and of having been awarded the Basic Skills Agency�s Quality Mark last year. Plans are going forward at present to try to achieve full primary status, thus allowing the children to stay on in the school up to transfer to senior education.By the way; interest is often shown in the village�s name Newton Solney. The Newton part is met with very often and in our case marked the new �tun � (or settlement) of a group of marauding Anglians, probably from the Netherlands and South Denmark area, who must have travelled up the Ri
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