Calendar
Other Stuff
Exhibitions, Talks & Courses
and Brantwood contact details
Other Local Calendars:
Many throughout the year
Village Calendar
Schoolroom (village hall) bookings shown here may not be complete.
Please check availability for bookings by contacting Juliet Caldwell : 07884 232281
bookings@conistonandcrakechurches.co.uk
Regular meetings or events
Organisation or Club Day of the month Time Where
Torver Line Every Wednesday 8 pm Schoolroom
Torver Parish Council 1st Thursday 7.30 pm Schoolroom
Bikers Breafast Apr - Oct 1st Sunday 9am Schoolroom
Breakfast Church Nov - Mar 1st Sunday 9am Schoolroom
Ulverston Police
Furness Blue Light Hub Beehive Business Park
Thomas Way Ulverston
LA12 7NJ
9am - 2pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
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Organisations & Clubs Contacts
Torver Line The village line dance club.
Every Wednesday - 8.pm. Schoolroom
Pat Barr: 015394 41348
Email through: david@tover.org
Women's Insitute
Torver WI is no more
Broughton Mills, Woodland
and Foxfield WI
welcome Torver ladies.
1st Wed. of the month - 7.30 pm
Reading Room, Broughton Mills
and Woodland Parish Room
(see Woodland page for venue)
Contact: Pam Gillman on 01229 716321
Set up by Age UK to provide a monthly lunch for the over 50's.
2nd Fri. of the month - 12 noon.
Church House Inn
Pat Barr: 015394 41348
Email through: david@tover.org
1st Thursday of the month.
Schoolroom - 7.30 pm.
Contact the parish Clerk:
Dorothy Wilkinson
015394 41764
St Luke's and St Andrew's
(Church of England)
For information please contact:
Linda Inman: 015394 41777
Schoolroom (Village Hall)
Parochial Church Council
Schoolroom sub-Committee
Committee meeting dates and times are not usually announced through Nobbut Torver or submitted for the Calendar, but may be posted in the Parish Newsletter.
Walna Scar
Shepherds Meet
Held on the first Saturday of November in one of three alternating venues: Torver, Broughton Mills and Seathwaite. These are village centres of the 'heafs', the areas of fellside that are remembered by the herdwick (hefted or heafed) sheep. When sheep stray onto a neighbour's heaf they are gathered and returned at the 'Meet', or they used to be before the age of Landrovers and trailers.
The Meets have now become more akin to social gatherings where sheep (herdwicks and swaledales) compete for rosettes and silver cups, children show their pets and shepherds meet for the crack and maybe to settle old scores. There are hound trails, displays of decorative crooks and sticks and usually lots of mud so don't forget your wellies. After the field events they meet in the local hostelry for singing, poetry readings and much quaffing of ale.
Quaffing is a form of social drinking where most of the ale misses the mouth, and the tankard is used not so much as a vessel to drink from, but as something handy to conduct the singing. (Terry Pratchett)
Alan Rayner's
featuring the 2014 Torver Meet
will give you some idea.