Your Community
Useful information of services and facilities within the community.
Village Hall
The Village Hall has always been and remains an important community focal asset and contributor to village life. In August 1930 the Trustees of the village hall purchased the piece of land on which the hall now stands for £10.00, in order to provide physical and mental recreation, social, moral and intellectual development for the benefit of the parish. The current committee and Trustees remain true to that ethos and sympathetic to the communities changing needs.
Police
In case of emergency dial 999. For non-emergency dial 101. Click here for North Yorkshire Police website.
Doctor
The local doctors’ surgery is at Strensall tel: 01904 490532. Strensall Medical Practice is now known as My Health Group. This site has links to other Health websites and to NHS Direct.
For the GP Out of Hours Service which is located beside York Hospital Casualty Department: tel: 0845 056806
Thornton-le-Clay Methodist Chapel
A small Society of 8 members was formed in 1813. In 1822 a piece of ground was acquired from Mr W. Lund of Flaxton and on this site the present Chapel was erected at a cost of £200. The present members are committed to maintaining a Christian presence within the community. Details of services can be found on the Chapel notice board, and in The Circular, and periodic United Service leaflets.
Website – https://www.yorkmethodist.org.uk/
All Saint’s Parish Church, Foston
The church on its present site predates the Norman Conquest and is recorded in the Domesday Survey. What we have now is a building that is the same in appearance to the re-built church dating 1130. The most recent alteration occurred in 1911/12 when the church was enlarged and a stone bell gable erected. Details of services can be found in the church’s newsletter, ‘The Circular’, and periodical United Service leaflets.
Website – https://www.sandhuttongroup.org.uk/
Walks around the parish
The Parish has been granted an amount of money from the Participatory Budget for wayfaring marks and to print leaflets of walks in and around Foston & Thornton le Clay. We need volunteers to walk the footpath routes around the villages, writing down the exact route & noting any obstacles or difficulty with finding the routes. If anyone can help with walking the routes or has knowledge of any of the footpaths around, can they contact Cllr Chris Walker via the Contact Us form on this website or come along to any monthly Parish Council meeting to discuss.
TLC Circular
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Circular Walk bluecoates 2km
Circular Walk bluecoates 6.5km
Click here for information on the ‘Countryside Code’.
Local History Group
The Thornton le Clay and Foston Local History Group
We have already heard a host of fascinating stories about the past in our villages. For instance, do you know:
When they drilled for oil in Thornton le Clay?
Where the Post Office used to be?
What happened at the ‘Tin Tabernacle’?
Where the Huntsman’s memorial is?
Where the wartime Evacuees came from?
Where Rudyard Kipling used to visit?
Where the Bay Horse pub was in Thornton le Clay?
