The Village
The church, which has been designated a beacon church for the Winchester diocese, has links with Kware, a suburb of Nairobi in Kenya, via a hospital and school mission. This mission called Handshake to Kware is a registered charity and is supported by the local schools and businesses, however, in late 2011, the project was put on hold after it was revealed that Benn Mugisha, the coordinator of the mission on the Kenyan side, had been sacked because he had been deemed to not be a "fit and proper person to continue to represent the charity”, after an internal investigation. This was also reported in the local press. The village has also played host to a series of annual Christian outreach programmes in recent years. It is home to two scout groups, the 7th and 8th Eastleigh.
Fair Oak has a village hall and four pubs: 'The George', 'The Cricketers', 'The New Clock Inn', and 'The Fox'.
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“A village seems thus, where its able-bodied men are all plowing the ocean together, as a common field. In North Truro the women and girls may sit at their doors, and see where their husbands and brothers are harvesting their mackerel fifteen or twenty miles off, on the sea, with hundreds of white harvest wagons, just as in the country the farmers’ wives sometimes see their husbands working in a distant hillside field. But the sound of no dinner-horn can reach the fisher’s ear.”
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“This is the village where the funeral
Stilted its dusty march over deep ruts
Up the hillside covered with queen’s lace
To the patch of weeds known finally to all.”
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