Christingle 24th December 2020
The combined parish of St Helen’s Burghwallis and St Mary Magdalen Campsall are holding the Christingle service for children live streamed online via a zoom link. The service starts at 4 pm on Christmas Eve 24th December. You can see further details at the following […]
Burghwallis Christmas Tree 2020
The ‘reet’ nasty virus that joined the world during 2020 took its toll. The need to avoid this invisible enemy has impacted on lives in a way unimaginable to everyone. But the lighting of the Christmas tree at the war memorial goes on shining a […]
Christmas Dinner – with a difference
It has been the custom for several years now for the Parish Council to host a Christmas Lunch for the pensioners in the village. This is funded by the income from the Poor’s Field (on Burghwallis Road), which was covenanted to the village “for the […]
Toll Puddle Moves North
We have all become the northern martyrs fending off the volume of water that has been recently delivered. Just to cheer us up our local tier 3 status has been ‘diluted’ and being fastened in (sic) has been superceded by the need to stop indoors […]
Burghwallis Volunteers
In all walks of life, behind the scenes there are inevitably a group of people who get things done. The world as we know it relies on volunteers, and Burghwallis is no exception. A small team of local residents turn up to prune, plant, paint, […]
Christingle 2020
The annual Christingle service has been interrupted by both the lockdown and the closure of St Helen’s church due to a dodgy roof. Undaunted the Revd Chris Herbert has come up with an alternative ‘cunning plan’ (Blackadder). Revd Chris Herbert:- Hi everyone, we now know […]