Unique heritage trail links villages

PUPILS from seven schools provided the inspiration for a unique Queen’s Jubilee Heritage Trail linking three villages.
Innovative wood carvings, depicting the six decades of the Queen’s reign, plus one depicting Royalty generally, have been placed in the grounds of the seven schools.
Now residents of the three villages – Stockton Heath, Appleton and Stretton – are being invited to “follow the trail” around the seven schools.
The schools involved are Appleton Thorn Primary, Broomfields Junior, The Cobbs Infant and Nursery and St Monita’s RC Primary, all in Appleton, Stockton Heath Primary and St Thomas’ CE Primary, both in Stockton Heath, and St Matthew’s CE Primary, Stretton.
Last summer, the schools started work on the project, each choosing a decade to research. Pupils then had great fun drawing pictures representing the idea of “Royalty and the Queen” and events which happened during each decade.
Then local chainsaw wood carver Lucinda Brito selected drawings, carved them on to a piece of oak and then onto a 3D shape of a book and a crown to provide a permanent commemoration of the Jubilee.
Each school is now proudly displaying their own carving in their grounds.
The project was supported by Appleton, Stockton Heath and Walton Parish Councils.