A German style Oktoberfest is coming to Santon Downham.

Breckland Club are running an Octokberfest from Friday 27th September to Sunday 13th of October

A selection of German beers (and some Belgian) will be available and a German style BBQ will take place on the Saturday (Sept 28th) ~ 4pm.

Normal Club opening hours apply during Oktoberfest.

Friday	5:30–10 pm
Saturday	2–10 pm
Sunday	12–6 pm

ALL WELCOME – The Breckland Club is a members only club and events are normally only open to members and their guests. However Oktoberfest 2024 is open to all. Please enquire at the bar if you’d like to become a member.

Car Boots are resuming in Santon Downham from May

These are being run by the village hall

for further details please contact the village hall

The main road between Brandon and Thetford is closed overnight tetween 7pm and 5am (7ht to 8th of Feb)

Access only may be allowed (i.e. to Santon Downham) but long diversions seem to be in place for through traffic.

Details can be found here

10:30 to 12:00 at the Village Hall

The dates for the 2024 Coffee Mornings are as follows

Wednesday

24th January

7th February

21st February

6th March

20th March

3rd April

17th April –LAST OF THE YEAR

Yes it was cold last night.

No surprises as my garden weather station had recorded an overnight low of -6.6C.

It wasn’t till much later in the day that Dan Holley was able to say the official weatherstation confirmed it (they even agreed with my numbers).

One of the main roads in/out of Santon Downham will be closed from the 8th to the 17th of November.

Details can be found here

The closure is at the corner by the Forestry Commission and the details/diversion shows their will be no direct access either to or from the river/bridge side of Santon Downham i.e no access to/from the A134.

A number of historic press clippings from local and regional papers have been added to site.

Links have been added to relevant sections on the Timeline, The Church and Downham Hall together with the full list on the In The Press page.

More will be added in the near future.

The Village Hall (nolonger called the Santon Downham Centre) has a new website and includes details of how to book the rooms,up and coming events and contact details for the new Village Hall committee.

The postal collection times for the post box at the old village shop have changed.

they are now (as of 3/10/23)

9am Monday to Friday

7am Saturday

Two paintings of Downham Hall in 1900 have come to light and we have added photographs of them to the site.