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Information
All contact details and links to relevant local services can be found on our local services page, emergency and important services can be found on the important services page, local councillors and local government contact details can be found on the councillors page.
Eriswell village church
Eriswell village church is St Laurence and St Peter and the service times can be found on the church noticeboard. Our vicar is the Reverend Gordon Anderson and our churchwardens are Mrs Val Bibbey and Mrs Pearl Brunning. It has a 13th century south aisle and a 14th century tower and we have regular sunday servcies and seasonal festivities. In 1958 US Air Force personnel donated two of the five church bells, and they're rung on special occasions.
The Chequers Inn Public House
The Chequers Inn public house sits in the heart of the Eriswell village and is an independantly owned English country pub. It has an extensive menu and serves food all day from 11am. It can take private bookings and parties and has nights such a karaoke and live music. The pub has a good selection of wines, ciders and beers and always has a local guest beer on offer.
Eriswell Reading room
The Reading room (village hall) was originally built as the village school. It hosts various public and private meetings and events and is available for hire at modest rates. It has a main hall which can house around 50 people, toilets and a well stocked kitchen. For local elections the hall is used as the Eriswell polling station. We invite you to join our social coffee morning on the first Thursday of each month here from 10.30am - 12 noon. Coffee mornings in the Reading Room have been cancelled until further notice.
Outside the Reading rooms, it contains a number of recycling bins for mixed glass, newspapers and food and drink cans.
Eriswell playing fields and Childrens play area
Eriswell playing fields is open to all and contains a children's play area with a fun variety of climbing frames and playing fields with football goals. There is also a small orchard and wildflower meadow and it offers access to some great walks along the nearby cut-off drainage channel and access across the channel and into nearby Mildenhall woods. The playing field has football goals and small changing rooms available for use.
Local ramblings
Eriswell is in the heart of Breckland, a beautiful and unique area in East Anglia. Forming the western boundry of the parish is the main cut-off channel which was built in the early sixties as a fenland flood relief measure. There are 8 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Ersiwell parish (Lordswell Field, Eriswell Low Warren, Foxhole Heath, How Hill Track, Horn Heath, Weather Heath, Lakenheath Warren and Breckland farmland extending east from the A1065), which form a variety of wonderful walks. For more information on Suffolk Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) Wikipdedia has some useful information.
You can also walk across the bridge in Eriswell and head to Mildenhall woods following the ancient walking route to our neighbouring village. There is a map of local footpaths opposite the painted Eriswell village sign (just next to the driveway for the farm shop) or the original is available here. To check local river levels before departure you can check here.
News
Eriswell Parish does not have its own news publication but submissions can be made to the nearby village of Lakenheath which does have a monthly publication - Lakenheath Times.