A Big thank you for all those who supported the Carol Singers, they braved the wet weather for 1- 1/2 hours and amazingly raised £79.54 for Usk House, the singers would also like to thank those who supplied them with sweets on the way round.

The Llanspyddid Playground Project - Update

Update: 11th March 2011

From: Sunita on behalf of Friends of Llanspyddid,

I met with Steve B. from Powys today, we measured out the playground, what types of equipment could go where, and he did some sketches, a play equipment provider also came along and made suggestions.

Steve will send me a digital file/map that we can use for our consultations.

We are planning on holding some consultations next week: please come with your ideas for play equipment and fundraising.

Friday 18th March 4.15 – 5.15pm venue to be confirmed (church or playground – depending on the weather)

Sunday 20th March 4.00 – 5.30pm venue to be confirmed (church or playground – depending on the weather)

If you can’t make any of those times please come and see me!

Friends of Llanspyddid

We are pleased to announce that a Committee has now been formed, and are in the process of drawing up the constitution and sort out bank account etc. Another Newsletter will be going out shortly to let everyone in the village know exactly what is happening and how everyone can be involved if they so wish.

Saturday 16th May 2009

The recently completed refurbishment project of “Church Field” was blessed and opened by our Vicar Rev. David Thomas to mark the hard work undertaken by villagers and other kind hearted people from outside the village, keen to help us to restore the Church Field and make it accessible for us to enjoy.
Although it’s main purpose remains as an extension to the church yard and in time possibly serving as a burial ground, it is hoped as a village we can enjoy and make use of it for Village Fete’s, Games etc. and hopefully Church Fund raising events to help towards the upkeep of the Church Yard.

Click here to see more images of this event.

May 2009

This is our finished Church field with just a few tidying up jobs to do, and is now available to use as a community area.

If you roll your mouse over the image you will see what it was like when we started.

Thank You

The “Church Field” Project was finally completed with the help and expertise of the following kind hearted people:-
Vincent Williams “Agriculture Contractor” – Hedge Cutting and Brash Cutting.
Top Soil provided and delivered by - Malcolm Davies, Johnnie Cond'm and Lyn Williams.
Andrew V. Davies Plant Hire – Machine Work & Ground Levelling.
Mark Bowen – Machine operator.
Richard Harris – Machine Work & Church Yard Clearing.
Martyn (of Andrew V. Davies Plant Hire) – Machine Work.
Tree Surgery and Scrub Clearing – Gary Jones.
Stone Walling – James Norbury & Geof Jones.
David Powell for organising: - soil, grass seed and rolling the field with his “Little Grey Fergie”.
Geoff Phillips – Grass seed sowing.
David Thomas Penwern Farm – Harrowing.
Fencing – Rees Davies Cwmgwdi Farm ( Fencing Contractor) aided by GFWT
General Field Work Team (GFWT) – Peter James, Barry & Pauline Hill, David Powell, Wendal Williams, Paul Jones, Geof Jones & Stan Griffin.

We would also like to thank Mike Muir and Doug Jones who have helped Peter with the mowing in the Churchyard.

New - Listing of Gravestones now available from The Church History Page or Click Here

If anyone has any old photographs, newspaper cuttings/articles or stories to tell about Llanspyddid or the surrounding area, then please let us know. We can then post them here. It is hoped that more information will become available as members of our community get to see this website.

Practical Family History magazine will be featuring our website with particular reference to the 'Gravestone Index' under Web News in their June edition.

New Coffee Mornings in Village

It is proposed that we should provide coffee and fellowship in the church after Morning Service on the first Sunday of each month. All villagers are most welcome to join us at 12 noon, commencing on Sunday, 4th March 2007.

We would like to thank Doug Prosser (Funeral Director) who has kindly repaired 2 crosses free of charge – they are the two identical crosses on the south side of the church, to the right of the footpath leading down to the church from the village. On December 27th Doug also repaired another Gravestone free of charge which was damaged when a brow from one of the Yew trees broke off in the high winds before Christmas. Doug also righted a gravestone of a previous Llanspyddid vicar which was beginning to lean quite heavily.

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