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Following the resignation of the Parish Clerk, a vacancy will arise in September. If you feel you could fullfill this important post, please see the details attached: Here

 

TheVillage newsletter for the summer has been published here:

Urgent: The PC has published information regarding the COVID19 Coronavirus and where you can get help. Please click here

Further Information on support during the COVID19 virus is available in Leaflet2

Further information on support during COVID19 virus is available in Leaflet3 being delivered to villagers

Further Information has been delivered to the village in Leaflet4

Further Information has been delivered to the village in Leaflet5

Further information has been delivered to the village in Leaflet6

Further information has been delivered to the village in Leaflet7

Further Information has been delivered to the village in Leaflet8

 

This website is dedicated to the work of Shimpling Parish Council.

You will find information on Parish Councillors, publically available formal governance and financial Council Records, including minutes of all meetings and information about all of the official public activities of the Council.


There is also a Noticeboard with regular news and updates about the Parish Council and the community, together with an Events section containing details of upcoming meetings.


You can also contact the Clerk or individual Councillors through this website to raise any questions or issues relevant to the parish of Shimpling.

 

Please visit shimpling.onesuffolk.net and the Wikipedia entry on Shimpling for more specific information about the village of Shimpling itself and other community activities.

 

The Parish of Shimpling in the county of Suffolk is in the Chadacre ward of Babergh District Council, and and lies within the parliamentary constituency of South Suffolk.

Our local parliamentary representative at Westminster is James Cartlidge MP.

Councillors Stephen Plumb and Michael Holt from Babergh District Council and Richard Kemp from Suffolk County Council regularly attend meetings of Shimpling Parish Council.

 

Shimpling was described in 1870-72 in John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazeteer of England and Wales as:

 

"SHIMPLING, or Shimplingthorne, a parish, with a village, in Sudbury district, Suffolk; 4 miles NW by W of Lavenham r. station. It has a post-office under Bury-St-Edmunds. Acres 2,698. Real property £3,640. Pop., 500, Houses 111. The manor, with Chadacre Hall, belongs to Miss Hallifax. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value £600. Patron, the Rev A. H. Bolton. The church is plain."

Historical information and map sourced from:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Shimpling, in Babergh and Suffolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time. URL: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7672

 

Village Newsletters

Please note the following are not Parish Council products but are hosted here for accessability and the PC do contribute to them:

Autumn 2019 Newsletter

Spring 2020 Newsletter

Summer 2020 Newsletter