About US

StaveleyVillage.co.uk is developed by Wayne Gillies as a gateway for visitors to Staveley and its surrounding areas.

The website will also benefit locals as we aim to proivde an interactive community that everyone can enjoy.

If you are local and would like to help with the site in some way, please contact me using the submission form for more information on how you can help.

StaveleyVillage.co.uk is now attracting visitors from all over the world and it great to know that these visitors appreciate what I'm doing with the site.

One such visitor kindly allowed me to include his email on the website. I've placed it her for you to read:

Hi Wayne, Just wanted to express my appreciation for your website -- from across the world in Toronto, Canada. I've only visited Staveley once, in 1992, but this is where the roots of my family lie. My grandfather, Arthur Shepherd, was born in Gowan Terrace in 1898. My great-grandfather, William Shepherd, lived with his ten siblings and parents, James Shepherd and Jane (Palmer) Shepherd on Main Street next to the Co-op. James was born in Staveley in 1849 and died in the Old Vicarage in 1932 after a lifetime of work in Chadwick's Bobbin Mill. Jane, in the 1860s, was a servant at the Eagle & Child Tavern. My family's roots -- Shepherds, Palmers, Dickinsons, Nicholsons, etc. -- are firmly buried in Staveley and I'm very grateful for this website. It makes me feel closer to these ancestors, if that makes any sense! Thanks again -- and best wishes for the website's success!   Wayne Shepherd, Toronto, Canada

Do you have some knowledge of Staveley Village? If so, did you know you can submit your own articles for publication on the site.

It can be about anything to do with Staveley or events etc... in and around Staveley. All you have to do it submit your article here - http://www.staveleyvillage.co.uk/article/index.php

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