Spofforth Village

Help support our bid for Spofforth to be crowned Britain's Best Small Village in the RHS 'Britain in Bloom' 2012 competion by booking your tickets for the following fundraising events..

Bridge Tournament - 17th May in the Village Hall.  An afternoon of Bridge with Tea and Cakes! 

Contact John Chilton on 590606 

Inspirational and entertaining talk and film show by Horace Dobbs PhD - Wednesday 13th June in the Village Hall

It is proposed to have a junior photography competition based on Spofforth in Bloom to mark our entry as Yorkshire's representative in this year's Britain in Bloom.  The competition theme is 'Village in Bloom'.  Any photograph showing any aspect of the village or its surrounds within the theme of 'In Bloom'. It is free to enter.  email entries to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  with name, age and details of where the picture was taken.  Closing date sunday 22nd July 2012.  Winners will have there photo published int he Village in Bloom calendar for 2013.

When Spofforth Parish Council started work to update the toilets at the Long Memorial Hall, they had no idea when a top to toe refurbishment had last been carried out.  Whilst they were in the process of demolition they found a newspaper jamming a flue, which they carefully removed!  The paper was The News of the World, dated ......  January 1947 - apparently the coldest winter on record.