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 Just to cheer us up our local tier 3 status has been ‘diluted’ and being fastened in (sic) has been superceded by the need to stop indoors […]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 […]
Autumnal Glory
The road to redemption seems arduously long. As we trudge through Lockdown v2.01 the impact on peoples lives is immeasurable. Today 11 November 2020 as we remember those in the forces who fell in the defence of our country we can spare a thought to […]
Burghwallis Remembers
The remembrance ceremony at Burghwallis took on a different but possibly equally moving ceremony on Sunday 8th November 2020. Covid -19 restrictions saw a changed format, the traditional gathering around the war memorial being relocated to the playing field opposite. The 20 members of the […]