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Shapenote Singing  in and around

the City of           Dreaming Spires
 


Oxford
New Road Baptist Church
 in 1799

PLEASE NOTE
Because of continuing circumstances, the fortnightly sessions in Headington
(North Oxford)
have had to be 
suspended.

Please contact

Julie Fox
for further details:
jfox50@me.com
07907-292-408






See below
for 2026
Palm Sunday Singing

Saturday 21st June 2025


26th Oxford All-Day Singing
will be held on
Saturday 21st June 2025

at the
Botley Women's Institute Hall
North Hinksey Lane, Botley
OX2 0LT

Doors open 10.00 am for 10.30 am (BST) singing.
 

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Come and join us, either to sing, from the Denson 1991 Sacred Harp, or just listen! Loaners available.
Bring and Share Lunch – cold food only please, prepared and ready to serve. Or BYO food. Donations to cover costs.

 

Early evening Social afterwards : venue to be confirmed.

 

PLEASE TEST FOR COVID ON THE MORNING BEFORE THE SINGING _ THANK YOU.

 

Lifts from Oxford Bus and Rail Stations can be arranged; please contact us beforehand by Friday 20th pm – tel: 01865 865773. Oxford is served by main-line services from both Paddington (GWR) and Marylebone (Chiltern Line). 

HOWEVER ...

  ... because the Botley Road at Oxford Station has been closed since March 2023 and won’t reopen until August 2026, we can’t pick-up from under the Oxford Ox statue opposite main door of the station. Please use the pedestrian footpath under the railway bridge to the Botley Road and make your way past the allotments (on your right) to the car park entrance of the West Oxford Community Centre, opposite St. Frideswide's Church. We can pick-up from there instead.
Travel by COACH ('Oxford Tube' from Victoria or Marble Arch) is considerably cheaper than by train, but the pick-up point will be the same as by train.
There are several bus services along the Botley Road, starting from the 'temporary' stop outside St Frideswide Church, Osney Island, the E1, S6, S9, 400 and 4A. Minns Industrial Estate is the nearest stop to the singing venue, just past Aldi and before MacDonalds. Minns is at the junction of Botley Road and North Hinksey Lane, which is what you need to find the WI Hall.
If you take the S6, please make sure you get off at Minns, or you will be on your way to Swindon.
If the weather is fine, walking to the venue is another alternative, which is a mile from the railway station. If WALKING from the Bus Station, turn Right on the road outside the Bus Station, go over the cross-roads, and continue walking in a straight line towards the Railway Station. You will arrive in Frideswide Square just before you reach the Railway Station. Walk under the railway bridge and continue as before.
IF COMING BY CAR
(including access from Bristol/Swindon A420), don't attempt to go through the City! Leave the A34 at the Botley Interchange, and turn down the hill towards Oxford. You will be confronted by MacDonalds. It is easier to turn RIGHT at these traffic lights, followed by an IMMEDIATE LEFT, keeping MacDonalds on your left. Travel 300 yards southwards, and join North Hinksey Lane at a small cross-roads. Continue south (ie straight on), the Hall is on the left after House No 34. Parking is behind the Hall.

 

Facebook Event Page is :
https://www.facebook.com/events/685360384191359


Botley WI Hall Facebook page :
https://www.facebook.com/BotleyWI/?locale=en_GB

 

Traffic News relating to the A34 - always worth checing!
https://www.trafficdelays.co.uk/a34-traffic-delays/


Please contact Edwin and Sheila
Email:
shelwin8@tiscali.co.uk
Tel: 01865 865 773

If lost, telephone  Edwin on 07972 680 602

Location map:

Link to Google Map here 

 

 

2026
30th Palm Sunday Singing
is at Cumnor  Village Hall
Oxford
on
Palm Sunday
Sunday 29th March 2026

Singing from the

Singing from 10.30 am until 4.00 pm
Registration from 10.00 am

with
Dinner on the Grounds
Cumnor Village Hall, Leys Road,
Cumnor, Oxfordshire, OX2 9QF, 
United Kingdom

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Contact:
Email: Mandy Townsend
Phone: +441865714778

Donations to cover costs.
Because of immune participants
it will be appreciated if participants will
take a lateral flow test
the morning of the Singing Day,
and confirm that the test was negative.

As to Rail Travel from Paddington and Marylebone:
For access to Cumnor, bear in mind
the Botley Road is still closed
at the bridge at the Railway station.
See comments above for the
Oxford Singing Day.



Website run by
Sheila and Edwin Macadam
Tel:01865 865773
Email:  shelwin8@tiscali.co.uk