Welcome to our website

This is the official website of Marcham Parish Council. It aims to provide information about the role of the Council and what we have been doing on behalf of the village. Please let us know if there is anything else that you would like to see on these pages.

How to contact us

All enquiries about the work of the Council should be addressed to our Clerk, who is Mrs Linda Martin. She can be contacted by telephone/fax on 01865 391833, by email to clerk@marchamparishcouncil.gov.uk or by post to 90 Howard Cornish Road, Marcham, Abingdon OX13 6PU.

News

• Our next meeting will be held at 7.30pm on Wednesday 8 February 2012 in the residents' lounge, Duffield Place, Marcham. Any member of the public is most welcome to attend any of our meetings. Please click here for the agenda.

• The Parish Council has organised a Best Kept Front Garden competition again this year. Judging for this year's competition has now taken place and the overall winner is 21 North Street. The twenty one best front gardens in the village received certificates and prizes at the Parish Council meeting on Wednesday 14 September 2011. If you would like further details, then please click in the Best Kept Front Garden box on the left of the screen.

• Plans to build a reservoir on four square miles of land near Marcham have been rejected by the Government. The bid went to a public inquiry but the Secretary of State said there was "no immediate need" for such a site. Thames Water has said it would look at developing plans for a smaller reservoir at Abingdon. Please click here for more details.

• The 31 bus service is now using buses that transmit real time information about their position. This is how the displays like those at the bus stops on Stratton Way in Abingdon are kept up to date. You can find out what time the next 31 bus is due here in Marcham by using an online system called OxonTime. Just tell it your postcode and you can then find out what time the next bus is due at any of the 8 stops here in the village. Click here if you would like to use it. As with all of our bus services, we need to use them whenever possible if we want to keep them running. Could you use the bus the next time you take a trip to Abingdon, Oxford, Wantage or Witney and leave the car in the garage? Click here for the current 31 timetable. or click here for the X15 timetable.

• The village Post Office is now open from 9.00am to 1.00pm, Monday to Friday each week. This is a temporary arrangement for the Post Office only until a permanent tenant for the shop and the Post Office can be found.

• The Freedom of Information Act gives you the right to request information held by public authorities. Under this legislation the Parish Council has now set out where access to public information held by the Council can be found. If you would like further details, then please click in the Publications box on the left of the screen.