01/12/2023
Dear friends, The Christmas trees have gone up in the churchyard of St John and next week will be Carol singing on Ockley Green. We have had a sprinkling of snow this week and today is Advent Sunday. We are fast approaching the celebration of God’s coming to earth. Do…
24/11/2023
Dear friends, If you read this on Saturday there is still time to head for St John and help with the deep-clean of the church, ready for the new church year and Christmas. We have two more teas in church, this Sunday and 10 December. There will be opportunity for…
17/11/2023
As with many Churches, we find our congregations have less young people at the Sunday services. We are therefore proposing to take Church to the Children. This would be in the form of an After School Club. It’s a bit like Messy Church. The format is simple – a bible…
17/11/2023
Dear friends, If you read this on Saturday, please make sure to visit the Capel Christmas Fair. The weather is good for hot chocolate and cake and browsing the Christmas goodies on offer by many small local businesses. Please also read in the notes and find out about two exciting…
17/11/2023
Are you excited about sharing Bible stories with school children? want to have fun with a team? perhaps you’d like to be a Storyteller and join a team of like-minded people from our churches taking Bible Stories into our local schools with ‘Open the book’? We would like to do…
09/11/2023
Dear Friends, This week it is not Dineke, but I doing the honours to write the weekly news sheet. Dineke is away on a short trip to see her sister in the Netherlands. Remembrance Sunday is upon us and in the morning Cafe Church in Capel will reflect in their…
05/11/2023
Dear Friends, Following yesterday’s worship, Liz would make a prayer booklet for Gaza and Israel available. Please find this attached for download and printing. Alternatively, there would be some copies in church too to pick-up. In addition next Tuesday there will be a vigil at St John – Capel next…
03/11/2023
Dear friends, The weather isn’t letting up so I decided to go over some holiday pictures. The one above is of a Weka or Maori hen, a flightless rail native to New Zealand. Like many other flightless birds in the southern hemisphere the status of this species is ‘at risk’.…
27/10/2023
Dear friends, Autumn is definitely with us now and the picture shows the strawberry tree we bought many years ago and has finally started to flower. Hot off the press is Inspire magazine, which you can read or download using the following link: www.capelandockleychurch.org.uk/2023/10/28/issue-no-78-november-2023/<www.capelandockleychurch.org.uk/2023/10/28/issue-no-78-november-2023/> There will be some hardcopies in…
27/10/2023
The November issue marks Remembrance Sunday and there will be services at both churches, including cafe church at Capel. “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the…
27/10/2023
Everything seems to pale into significance doesn’t it when we consider the terrible events that have unfolded in Israel and Gaza in recent weeks. War is always a terrible thing but there has been a particularly horrible brutality which threatens to destabilise the whole region aside from the suffering of…
20/10/2023
Dear friends, Storm Babet has largely passed us by here in the South but the devastation in North England and East Scotland is huge. Let’s hope and pray that today further damage, injury and loss of life can be prevented. These last weeks there hasn’t been much opportunity to take…
01/03/2023
After spending over £300K on resurfacing and stumping a 4km section of Wolvens Lane, SCC have now imposed a permanent closure of the byway for all non-essential 4 wheeled vehicles and…
03/10/2022
After spending over £300K on resurfacing and stumping a 4km section of Wolvens Lane, SCC have imposed a temporary closure of the byway, which has been extended again until October…
09/03/2021
During 2020/21 nearly £142,000 was spent on projects in all three wards in our parish. This was funded by CIL(Community Infrastructure Levy) and Easement payments. A number of other projects…
15/10/2020
UKOG gives up Surrey Hills oil exploration licence Campaign against oil drilling at Bury Hill Wood near Leith Hill. Photo: Jon O’Houston UK Oil & Gas plc announced this morning…
13/06/2016
This year’s Capel Military Vehicle Show comes to Aldhurst Farm Capel, RH5 5HJ on the 2nd and 3rd July. It will feature an RAF Chinook helicopter, a historic Westlands Wasp,…
01/06/2016
CAPEL CRICKET CLUB We are underway in the Cricket with matches starting from under 8s right through to the adult sections. There is plenty going on with both Cricket and…
01/06/2016
Capel Open Gardens on Sunday 19th June are being held in aid of Alzheimer’s research uK. The gardens will be open from 1pm to 5pm. The programmes, which will have…
01/06/2016
In aid of our local schools. Saturday 26th June 2016: 12 -3pm @ The Vicarage, 54 The Street It seems that Summer is almost here and where would be without…
02/05/2016
On Saturday 16th April, some 90 Capel folk came to grips with the game of shuffleboard in the Village Hall. You haven’t heard of it? Well, we soon discovered that…
02/05/2016
By the time you read this hopefully the rain will have stopped and the ground dried out a bit. The Cricket Club are looking forward to the season so why…
02/05/2016
By the time you read this hopefully the rain will have stopped and the ground dried out a bit. The Cricket Club are looking forward to the season so why…
01/04/2016
The recent race night done in conjunction with the Youth Club was a great success with £3,700 raised. Thanks to all who attended and our sponsors. Upcoming events: Tuesday 12th…
17/01/2016
Lots has been going on quietly behind the scenes as the pavilion project moves forward. Our in house fundraising has now gone past £20,000 and is fast approaching £@5,000. We…
07/11/2015
Capel Cricket Club & Capel Football Club are holding a join New Year’s Eve Party in the Village Hall with funds going towards the New Sports Pavillion Fund. Bring your…
17/01/2016
If you are unhappy about night flights in/out of Gatwick you might like to sign the petition on the government website. Once 10,000 “signatures” have been obtained the government are…
19/01/2015
The Parish Council hopes that everyone will find the time to respond to the Consultation Document -‘Gatwick Airport Second Runway’, and that they will also encourage friends and neighbours to…
30/09/2014
GATWICK CO-ORDINATION GROUP To: Parish Council’s in Surrey, Sussex and Kent. You will be aware from the Press Statement on the 11th June, 2014 that Surrey/Sussex and Kent have formed…
30/09/2014
The Parish Council submitted a formal representation in response to the ‘London Air Space Change – Gatwick Local Area Consultation’ for the Gatwick Airport Flight Paths. Since making the…
Capel is a village in southern Surrey, southeastern England, situated about 6 miles south of Dorking alongside the A24 road, and approximately 3 miles (5.5 km) from the West Sussex border. Neighbouring villages are Ockley, Coldharbour and Newdigate. The pub is called The Crown; there are also several shops, a church, St John the Baptist, a Friends Meeting House (see history below), an infant school, a garage, a cricket club and a tennis club. The village is served by Ockley railway station on the Mole Valley Line between Dorking and Horsham. A bus service runs to Dorking and Horsham.
Text taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capel%2C_Surrey