Welcome to the Rosedale blog. This is where we share news and information about events in Rosedale and the wider community throughout the year. You’ll also find news about the village timetable, our micro enterprises, school events, clubs, and lively socials.
Image: Rosedale Show By Patrick Chambers
Over £360 was collected for the Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Rescue Team at the coffee morning held at theCoach House Inn in Rosedale Abbey on 3 May 25.
Once again, very many thanks to all who contributed prizes for the raffle and those who donated cash for the coffee and to the staff of the Coach House for sponsoring this successful event.
As notified, Gill Lane is due to be closed from from Wednesday 7 May for two days for top dressing work from the Low Bridge junction by the caravan park up to the White Horse junction – weather permitting, it says!
The mobile library service visit due on 16 April has been cancelled because the vehicle has to go in for an unscheduled service. The next visit to Rosedale will be on Wednesday 14 May 2025.
The mobile library service due to vidit Rosedale Abbey today, 19 Match, has been cancelled because of mechanical problems. The next visit will be on Wednesday 2 April from 1.00 to 3.00pm.
The dates and sponsors for the charity coffee mornings held in the Coach House Inn on the first Saturday of each month for the remainder of 2025 are:
1 March – Rosedale Community School
5 April – Moors Bus
3 May – Ryedale Mountain Rescue
7 June – Reading Room/Village Hall
5 July – Yorkshire Cancer Research
2 August – Ryedale Special Families
6 September – Rosedale Church
4 October – Rosedale Community Fund
1 November – Rosedale WI and Craft Fair
6 December – Rosedale History Archive
The events start at 10.00am and end with the ever popular raffle at around 12.00am. Entry is free but donations of items for the raffle and for the coffee and biscuits provided are welcomed – see you all in ’25!
Calling all Rosedale residents, past & present.
A Rosedale Recipe Book ….
Can you help by providing us with a recipe or two of your favourite dishes, savoury and sweet, to be included in a recipe book? All funds raised will go towards Rosedale Abbey Church Appeal. To request full details please go to: rosedalerecipes@outlook.co
Dear friends,
Tomorrow we celebrate Candlemas – the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, at
9.15 am Hutton (Revd Christine)
9.15 am Rosedale (me)
10.45 am Lastingham (me).
In addition we will be remembering that this is Holocaust Memorial Week, so we will be having a quiet space towards the end of the service at Lastingham so that we can light candles while Maddy plays quiet music.
Please feel welcome to attend any service.
The Festival of Candlemas has a very ancient tradition. Look, for instance, at Candlemas on Wikipedia.
We celebrate the presentation of Jesus in the Temple, while his mother Mary offers a purification offering. The later service of Churching of Women still in the Prayer Book relates to this, but is very little practised today, at least in Britain. Revd Christine has only once been involved in such a service, and I, never.
Also, people in Anglican tradition would bring candles to church on this day to be blessed, and in the Middle Ages made offerings of candles to the church for its use throughout the year.
Finally – although there is lots more about Candlemas on the web – while some people take down Christmas decorations on Twelfth Night, they are often left up until Candlemas. Since the Wise Men only arrive in our cribs and Nativity sets (strictly) at Epiphany, taking them away six days later hardly gives us a chance to enjoy them, so that’s another reason to leave decorations in place until February 2nd1
With prayers and blessings,
Revd David
The coffee morning in aid of the Rosedale Football Club held at the Coach House Inn this morning raised the excellent sum of £399 – well done to all who contributed, to those who donated raffle prizes and to the Coach House team for hosting.