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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 2025
Palm Sunday Singing

Saturday 22nd June 2024


25th Oxford All-Day Singing
will be held on
Saturday 22nd June 2024

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 21st 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 to the end of October 2024, we can’t pick-up from under the Oxford Ox statue opposite the main door of railway station.  Please use the pedestrian footpath under the railway bridge on the Botley Road and we can pick-up from there instead.

Travel by coach (Oxford Tube from Victoria or Marble Arch) is considerably cheaper than by train, but pick-up point will be the same as by train.

 

There are several bus services along the Botley Road, starting at the 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.  Or a mile’s walk from the station…

 

 

Facebook Event Page is still to be completed

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

D I R E C T I O N S

 

 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 Station, then use the pedestrian footpath under the railway.

 

 

IF COMING BY CAR

(including access from Bristol/Swindon A420)

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 cross-roads. Continue south (ie straight on), the Hall being on the left after House No 34. Parking is behind the Hall.

 

Please note, when leaving :

If using the lane by car when leaving the singing, it's easier to turn RIGHT at the sharp bend, and then turn LEFT around MacDonalds in order to reach the traffic lights.

 

 

If lost, telephone Edwin on 07972 680 602
 

 

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 

 

 

 
2025
29th Palm Sunday Singing
 is at Cumnor, Oxford
is on
 Psalm Sunday
Sunday 13th April 2025
 Singing from the

Singing from 10.30 am until 3.30 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.
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:
Hopefully all major problems with road and rail travel
will have been fixed!!


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