North Rode News

After months of planning, North Rodes’ first ever Well dressing took place on 30th August 2026.  Work started many weeks ago with the design and construction of the well dressing boards, specially designed to hold sufficient depth of clay to retain moisture and to ensure the clay and flowers don’t fall out! The boards were […]

North Rode’s Inaugural Well Dressing is happening on 30th August 2026, following the renovation of Church Lane Well. Followed by a village Ceilidh in Daintry Hall that evening. Details on the poster below:

North Rode Revival 2026 was bigger and better than ever this year, with over 85 classic cars, traction engines, 3 bands, a flight simulator and a flypast. Over £3000 was raised for the East Cheshire Hospice and North Rode Village.

North Rode Villagers recently put together a working party to renovate the old well on Church Lane in the village. The broken lintel was replaced thanks to a kind donation by Peter Brocklehurst and the trough cleaned out. This is in preparation for our first village Well Dressing, due to be held in 2026.

Our 2025 poppy workshop produced over 400 additional poppies for the village displays, meaning we now have over 650 poppies to display around the village. Displays were installed around new village signs, village greens and at Daintry Hall and St Michael’s Church

North Rode Railway Fete on 14th June brought together villagers old and new on the fields below North Rode Viaduct on the River Dane at Colley Mill Farm. The sun came out as did a variety of extravagant victorian costumes reminiscent of the time of the original opening ceremony. We all enjoyed the delights of

North Rode Parish Council Celebrated the 80th Anniversary of VE Day on the 8th May 2025 by inviting all villagers along to enjoy a Cheese and Wine evening and to listen to VE day speeches alongside images of the actual day in 1945.  North Rode Church had been decorated on the outside with a sea

The parish council is arranging an informal afternoon for the village to come together and celebrate the 200th year of the Railway and the opening of our viaduct 176 years ago in 1849! Elworth Silver Band will be playing and there will be duck races for adults and children. Bring your own food and drink

The Parish Council has finally installed the remaining boundary signs on Cocksmoss Lane, Shellow Lane and Bullgate Lane, so all road entrances to North Rode have a gateway sign. Following consultation with Cheshire East Highways on the design and location, the installation work was carried out on quiet evenings over the last couple of weeks

North Rode finally received a grit bin for the dangerous bend on Shellow lane by the railway bridge. The parish council asked for a grit bin from Cheshire East Highways for this location over a year ago, so it is great news to receive this just before the icy season.

Over the past few months, villagers in North Rode have been collecting plastic bottles to make into colourful bright red poppies, in remembrance of those that have fallen in service of our country.  There is no war memorial in the village, as technically North Rode is a ‘Thankful Village’. North Rode was and still is

The North Rode 80th Anniversary D-Day Commemoration was a resounding success and enjoyed by over 115 villagers, family and friends on Thursday 6th June 2024, joining commemorations taking place simultaneously across the whole of the United Kingdom. North Rode Parish Council chose to mark the event with a Fish and Chip supper at St Michael’s

When North Rode Parish Council decided to organise an 80th D-Day Anniversary event on 6th June, we decided that this would include lighting the village beacon alongside hundreds of others across the United Kingdom. The original beacon was installed in 1999, for the occasion of the Millenium, when the lighting of North Rode Beacon was