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The Folly Tower is open the 1st and 3rd Sundays from April to October.

11am – 5pm

Adults £3, 11-16 years £1, under 11s free.

​Just turn up. Card or cash payments.

The Folly woodland area is always open and entry is free.  ​It is privately owned by the Faringdon Folly Tower Trust.  It is not public land but we allow the general public to have permissive access.

Dogs are welcome in the woodland.  Please pick up after your dog. The dog bins are at the start of each path.

The fields surrounding the Folly woodland are private property and farmed by a local farmer.  ​Please keep off.

A community games club for all tabletop, card, board, role playing and social deduction games. We have a collection of board games and intro to collectable card games like Magic the Gathering, Pokemon, Lorcana and Dungeons and Dragons. We also run monthly Blood on the Clocktower and other gaming events every Sunday 5pm. £3 entry.

Roller skating for all.  £2.50 an hour.

Grab a pair of skates and your friends for a disco roller skating session at Faringdon Leisure Centre. Perfect for 4 – 15 year olds to skate around under the disco lights, while listening to their favourite tunes. Skates are available to use (up to size 8), otherwise feel free to bring your own. Cost: £6.60 per person.

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For more information about this and other events, please see our website and timetable.

The Place Table Top Sale

Faringdon’s Family & Children’s Project
Supporting all families with children under 5

Sunday 13th October 10am – 12pm At the Corn Exchange, Gloucester Street, Faringdon

Too busy to spend hours photographing, listing and posting your baby and toddler items online?
Looking for a hassle free way to turn your little ones’ outgrown baby and toddler clothes, toys, books and equipment into cash?

Why not book a table at our Table Top sale? Declutter and, for a one-off fee for the table, keep 100% of your takings.
£10 per table.

To book a table contact Lucy on theplacefaringdon@spurgeons.org

See and hear about the history of Coleshill. Take a tour of the Operational Base (underground bunker), learn about the history of the farm buildings and why there is a Heritage & Rural Skills Centre here, and see the old watermill. Finish with a visit to the secondhand bookshop and refreshments at Blakes.

A community games club for all tabletop, card, board, role playing and social deduction games. We have a collection of board games and intro to collectable card games like Magic the Gathering, Pokemon, Lorcana and Dungeons and Dragons. We also run monthly Blood on the Clocktower and other gaming events every Sunday 5pm. £3 entry.

Roller skating for all.  £2.50 an hour.

Grab a pair of skates and your friends for a disco roller skating session at Faringdon Leisure Centre. Perfect for 4 – 15 year olds to skate around under the disco lights, while listening to their favourite tunes. Skates are available to use (up to size 8), otherwise feel free to bring your own. Cost: £6.60 per person.

Book Now

For more information about this and other events, please see our website and timetable.

The Folly Tower is open the 1st and 3rd Sundays from April to October.

11am – 5pm

Adults £3, 11-16 years £1, under 11s free.

​Just turn up. Card or cash payments.

The Folly woodland area is always open and entry is free.  ​It is privately owned by the Faringdon Folly Tower Trust.  It is not public land but we allow the general public to have permissive access.

Dogs are welcome in the woodland.  Please pick up after your dog. The dog bins are at the start of each path.

The fields surrounding the Folly woodland are private property and farmed by a local farmer.  ​Please keep off.

A community games club for all tabletop, card, board, role playing and social deduction games. We have a collection of board games and intro to collectable card games like Magic the Gathering, Pokemon, Lorcana and Dungeons and Dragons. We also run monthly Blood on the Clocktower and other gaming events every Sunday 5pm. £3 entry.

Roller skating for all.  £2.50 an hour.

A community games club for all tabletop, card, board, role playing and social deduction games. We have a collection of board games and intro to collectable card games like Magic the Gathering, Pokemon, Lorcana and Dungeons and Dragons. We also run monthly Blood on the Clocktower and other gaming events every Sunday 5pm. £3 entry.

Roller skating for all.  £2.50 an hour.

Roller skating for all.  £2.50 an hour.

One of the finest female singer/songwriters this country has produced in years. Edwina brings together English folk, Americana and the rich Northern singer/songwriter tradition to create a sound that’s truly her own.

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Highly accomplished she’s toured with such notable performers as Jools Holland, Van Morrison, Nanci Griffith and Loudon Wainwright III to name just a few.

Edwina numbers Michael Parkinson and Mike Harding among her fans and the title track of her album Pour Me A Drink was covered by Nanci Griffith who calls her ‘the sweetest voice in England’.

Her cover of the Randy Newman song Feels Like Home was featured in the Cameron Diaz film My Sister’s Keeper and has since had over ten million plays on Spotify and over thirty million plays on You Tube.

Edwina’s 4th album Ruby Rose was released in December 2021.

‘The sweetest voice in England. A wonderful young woman, so gifted and full of song.’ – Nanci Griffith

‘Haunting, honeyed, solo songwriter.’ – The Guardian

www.edwinahayes.com
www.linktr.ee/edwinahayesmusic

Edwina’s good friend Emily Slade will open the evening.

Doors and bar 7pm, music at 7:30pm.

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Roller skating for all.  £2.50 an hour.

Wedding Fayre at Sudbury House Hotel
Experience our venue dressed by Event Style for your special day
Meet our preferred suppliers and get inspired for your big day.

Roller skating for all.  £2.50 an hour.

Roller skating for all.  £2.50 an hour.

We are so looking forward to our Christmas Light Switch On event on the 30th of November 2024:

• Craft Fair in the Corn Exchange
• Santa’s Grotto in the Market Place
• Music around the Christmas Tree

If you would like a market stall outside in the Market Place, please email bookings@faringdontowncouncil.gov.uk

Please note, the following roads will be closed to traffic from 09:30 until 19:00:

• Cornmarket
• Market Place
• London Street, from junction with Swan Lane to Market Place
• Church Street, from junction with Swan Lane to Market Place

Photo: Copyright 2022 David Farquhar

Roller skating for all.  £2.50 an hour.

Roller skating for all.  £2.50 an hour.

Roller skating for all.  £2.50 an hour.

Roller skating for all.  £2.50 an hour.