Best Kept Village 2026

 Hi everyone,

The results are in, and it's official: Aston Abbotts is one of Buckinghamshire's Best Kept Villages!

This award belongs to every single one of you. Your hard work, local pride, and care for our village made this win happen. Now, it is time to celebrate our collective achievement together.

The judges are visiting all the winning towns and villages across Bucks, and we are thrilled to host them to receive our official trophy and the commemorative post that will stand proudly on the village green. Jane Baylis and Colin Higgs will be on hand to receive our prizes! I'm delighted to say Michael Gould will be taking the photos.

Chris Phillips

Cate Waite 1922-2026

Residents were saddened by the passing of Aston Abbotts' oldest resident Cate Waite, who passed away on the 7th March at the age of 103.

Cate had lived most of her life in Aston Abbotts and until very recently she was a regular at the Thursday coffee mornings in the Village Hall. She will be very much missed.

Our sympathies are with her family.

Aston Abbotts Village Fete 2026

Aston Abbotts Village Fete 2026 is planned to take place on Saturday 25th July.

More details will be given when we have them

Aston Abbotts Fireworks - Sunday 2nd November 2025

 This year the fireworks will take place on 

Sunday 2nd November

This is different from previous years when it was usually held on the 5th.

Colin Higgs is 90!

Best birthday wishes to Colin Higgs, who celebrated his 90th birthday at the end of May.

Colin has been a mainstay of village life for many, many years; at times serving on the Parish Council, the Parochial Church Council, mowing the church grass, organising litter-picks and many other activities. He shows little sign of slowing down!

Colin was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to Aston Abbotts in the 2020 New Years Honours list.

You can read a year 2000 interview with Colin here.

Happy birthday Colin.

Best Kept Village Competition

Aston Abbotts has again entered the Buckinghamshire Best Kept Village competition in 2025. This follows our successes in 2019 and 2022.

You can read more and see pictures from 2019 and 2022 here.

Aston Abbotts Village Fete 2025

 

ASTON ABBOTTS VILLAGE FETE: 26th July 2025

 Please, save the date for the annual village fete on Saturday 26th July, starting at 1:00pm, continuing to 4pm . 

The Fete is the biggest event of the village calendar, and we really hope to see you there. 

All proceeds from the Fete go towards good causes such as the Church, the Chronicle, The Village Hall and many more as decided by the villagers during the Annual Parish Meeting.

We look forward to seeing you.

Regards

Neil Redding and Will Adeney