Useful Information

Councils

The District Councillor for our village is Mr Simon Jackson, Glen Farm, Arlescote, OX17 1DQ Tel: 01295 690223

The County Councillor for our village is Mr David Booth He covers Kineton Division. Contact details are: 8 Stonebridge Road, Lighthorne Heath, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, CV33 9TX. Tel 01926 640728 e-mail: davidbooth@warwickshire.gov.uk

Doctors

Surgery in Fenny Compton, about 4 miles away. 01295 770855

Surgery in Cropredy 01295 758372

Surgery in Kineton

Electricity

The local supply company is npower. Contact on 0845 675 0425

Customer Service PO Box 313 Gateshead NE11 0ZT

For loss of supply or emergency call 0800 328 1111

Garage Services

Warmington Garage on the Mollington Road. General motor engineers and mechanics. They can arrange MOT Tests as well. Contact Martin or Adrian Smith Tel: 01295 690415 (recommended)

Esso filling station and large shop at Gaydon, open 0700-2300 each day. Now reopened with coffee shop cash machine and some food supplies including milk.

Gas Supply

There is no mains gas available, however LPG supplies are available from a number of local suppliers

Bottled gas can be obtained from the Farm Supply shop at Fir Tree Farm at the top of Warmington Hill off Camp Lane

Hospital

The nearest Accident and Emergency facilities are at Banbury (Horton General, Oxford Road). 01295 275500

Library

The Mobile Library visits On the Green between 1455 and 1515 every third Tuesday.

Use the link below for the dates the library visits Warmington

Housebound residents can get assistance from Age Concern Staff in delivery of library books to home. Contact Debbie Sly 01926 851 031

Click here for local information on Libraries

Member of Parliament

The MP for our area is John Maples (Conservative). He represents Stratford on Avon. Contact details are: 3 Trinity Street, Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire, CV37 6DL Tel: 01789 292723. or at House of Commons Tel: 0207 219 5495

Milkman

Newspapers

Newspapers are delivered every day and can be ordered from: S and G Smith, 5 Beaumont Business Centre, Banbury, OX16 1TN Tel 01295 268499

Neighbourhood Watch

Our village coordinator is Helen Smart Tel: 690648.

Please report any issues or suspicions to her. She has local contact with Warwickshire and Northamptonshire police.

Oil Supply

Central Heating oil supplies are available from a number of local suppliers.

Cookes Fuels 0121 328 0869. Q8 Oil 01295 220660. CPL Oil 01295 268422.

Postman

Daily deliveries about 9.00am onwards. The sorting office is Banbury, behind the railway station.

The Post Office at Kineton is a proper sub post office where you can tax your car etc.

Easy parking and really friendly staff. USE IT OR LOSE IT

There is a post box on Church Hill by the notice board. Collections take place throughout the day at various times, with the last collection at 4.15pm. Later post can be posted in Banbury.

Police

The local Warwickshire police officer for our area is

PC541 Chris Cuthbertson Tel: 01789 414111 Voicemail 10541

Recycling Green waste and Refuse Collection

Recycling (big black plastic box) is collected on alternate Wednesdays from 6th August. The large green wheelie bins are also collected on a Wednesday and are for green garden waste only.

There will be a new blue lidded grey wheelie bin for recycling shortly, which will replace the black box.

Click here for local information on refuse and recycling

Refuse collection is now on Wednesday each week from 6th August.

Residents have to put their household rubbish and recycling on their property boundary on collection days. Help will still be given to elderly, disabled and infirm residents if they need help moving their bags or recycling bins, you just need to contact them so that they can make these arrangements for you.

There is a local rubbish tip at Alkerton, near Shenington, go through Edge Hill and then back towards Banbury on A422

Street Lighting

Faulty or broken lights in the village can be reported on 01926 412515 or via link below

Trains

Trains – Banbury station is about 7 miles; go via Mollington to avoid the worst of the Banbury traffic; allow 25 minutes to park, buy your ticket, etc.

Chiltern Railways trains are 4 times an hour to London Marylebone (just over an hour) and Birmingham Snow Hill (also about an hour) at peak times, 2 or more trains an hour at other times. NB – Birmingham is not what it used to be! It has one of the best shopping centres in Europe, plus some of the hottest night clubs you’ll find anywhere.

Chiltern Railways enquiries – 08456 005 165 (open 07.00 to 20.00), or National Rail Enquiries – 08457 484950 (24 hours)

Virgin Trains operate half-hourly ‘cross country’ services which will take you to Oxford (20 minutes – much better than driving!) and south to Bournemouth; or north via Birmingham International (hourly for the NEC and Airport) to Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Edinburgh and more!

National Rail Enquiries – 08457 484950 (24 hours)

Water and Sewage

Severn Trent supply mains water in the village, with Thames Water handling the sewage. However you pay one bill to Severn Trent and they sort it out with Thames.

Contact details for Severn Trent customer services 08457 500 500

Water and Sewage enquiries and emergencies 0800 783 4444

Sherbourne House, St Martins Road, Coventry, Cv3 6sd

Shops and Services

Garage Services

Esso filling station and large shop at Gaydon, open 0700-2300 each day. Now reopened with coffee shop cash machine and some food supplies including milk.

Warmington Garage on the Mollington Road. General motor engineers and mechanics. Contact Martin Smith Tel: 01295 690415 (recommended)

Tesco in Banbury have a large filling station open all night except Sunday nights.

For desperate times the M40 services north of J12 at Gaydon are 365 days 24 hours.

Main Local Shops

Warmington Hill Farm Shop Fresh meat, fish, vegetables, bread, milk and eggs 0.5m Thursday through Sunday, 10.00 – 5.00

National Herb Centre Specialty foods, herbs (!), spices, jams, cakes, cheese and honey. Presents you may end up eating! 0.5m 9.00 – 5.00 daily 10.30 – 5.00 Sundays

Cropredy stores (Cropredy) Fresh bread, good range of food for a ‘local’ store, newspapers, Link cash machine 3.5m Weekdays 8.00 – 6.00 Saturdays 8.30 – 6.00 Sundays 9.00 – 4.00

Esso garage/store (Gaydon) Service station with reasonable range of food including fresh bakery; newspapers 5m Weekdays 6.00 – 11.00 Saturdays 6.00 – 10.30 Sunday 6.00 – 10.00

Co-Operative local store, Rotary Way, Hanwell Fields Banbury. Off B4100 just before you get to Banbury. Open Mon-Sat 7am-10pm, Sun 8am-10pm

Tesco (Banbury) Pretty much everything including cash machines. Go via Mollington to avoid the worst of the Banbury traffic 6m 8.00am Monday through to 11.00pm Saturday (Sundays 10.00 – 4.00)

Banbury market Fresh fish, vegetables, flowers, olives, ham on the bone, cheese etc.; and all sorts of market stall produce including Banbury Cakes! 7m Thursday and Saturday mornings. Farmers market 1st Friday in every month

Kineton has a variety of local shops, hairdresser, estate agent, fish and chips, chinese take away from Carpenters Arms pub opposite Post Office. … – and a very good Indian restaurant/take away and a couple of pubs 5.5m 7 days/week

Banbury Has pretty much everything with all the usual High Street suspects – Marks and Spencer, Debenhams, Boots etc… and of course all the banks 7m 7 days/week

Bicester Village Hang on to your wallets chaps! Designer outlet shops such as Ralph Lauren, DKNY, Nicole Fahri, Wedgewood… selling seconds and discontinued lines.Some excellent deals from time to time 26m via M40,Exit at Junction 9 7 days/week

Other Village and Local Facilities

Village Notice Board – next to the post box. There are lots of local businesses advertising on the board, and local events and issues are posted.

The Church notice board is further up the hill, at the foot of the steps leading up to the Church

Public telephone – straight across the Green opposite the pond.