Services to the Village

Apart from the retail and other Businesses located in the village, there are other services provided from outside the village which are also essential, or at least desirable, to the enjoyment of village life. This page of information is intended to be useful to newcomers to the village, or to prospective purchasers of village property.

Retail Services

Milk, and some groceries, are delivered to households every weekeday by Dairy Crest in Framlingham.

Newspapers are delivered daily by the Framlingham newsagents, Big News. (Phone 01728 724414).

Fresh fish can be purchased from a van which calls throughout the village on a Wednesday.

Fish and Chips can be bought from the van which parks by the Village Green every Thursday in the early evening.

Frozen foods, desserts, etc from the Eismann van on Monday afternoons.

Utilities

In the UK, utility services can be purchased through a variety of suppliers these days as long as the infrastructure is in place. These notes refer only to the infrastructure.

Water. Mains water is available throughout the village.

Sewage. Mains sewage is available through the main streets of the village. Some outlying houses may still be using septic tanks.

Electricity. Mains electricity is available everywhere in the village. Some 20 years ago, storms often disrupted the electricity supply for hours ata time, but these days the supply is much more reliable - power cuts are rare. (Tempting fate - within a week of this comment being published, a storm in November 2002 cut the electricity supply to a number of houses in the village for more than a week!)

Gas. There is no mains gas supply.

Telephone. The local telephone exchange (01728 685xxx, and some 684xxx) is equipped to handle ISDN lines, but there seems little hope of getting Broadband (ADSL) in the near future. The village is in a 'dead' area for mobiles phones. Most mobile phone networks are, at best, unreliable in the village.