We celebrated the Wassail evening and raised £550 towards community association funds.
One of the organisers, Alison Ter Haar, said: "Joy Webb was crowned wassail queen and robed in our wassail cape, after finding the bean in the apple cake. The wassail ceremony was led by our Lord of Misrule, Gary Pearce, and we all sang Here We Come a Wassailing round the oldest tree in the orchard. All the children, and many adults, hung toast in the tree for the robins.
"The ceremony ended with the guns giving a great final volley through the branches before we all returned to the village hall for a buffet supper and we were accompanied by music from folk duo Mrs Peveril's Favourites." Subsequently the Lord of Misrule Gary Pearce, used the wooden staff used in the ceremony to stake a newly planted Apple Tree in his garden of the variety " Charles Ross of Welford Park " being an old english cross.