Changes

What has changed on the site, newest first. Only the changes you would notice on a village page are here.

This build: 46c6928, made 17 September 2026 at 19:37.

17 September 2026

The site is now Heathfold, at heathfold.uk, and every village is at its own address there, for example chetnole.heathfold.uk. Every old parishes.uk address still works and leads to the same page. A dark or light setting chosen on the old address needs choosing once more.

A page for each county, linked from the list of villages and from each village's This parish card. It says how many people and parishes the county has, with the year of the estimate, which councils run it, and who the police and fire service are, with a map of where the villages on this site are and a close up where they are too near each other to name.
A street map for every village, linked from the top of the village page: every street and the places people ask the way to, with a grid to find them by and an index underneath. It is drawn from Ordnance Survey's open data, with the pub, hall and school from OpenStreetMap. On a phone the map scrolls, so the names stay readable.
Bin collection dates are read from the council every six hours and kept for three days, and a date that has gone by is dropped. Since the evening before, a slow answer from the council had been leaving every village on the fortnightly rota instead.
Two villages just over the border in Somerset, Closworth and Milborne Port, as a trial. Somerset Council does not publish bin dates in a form this site can read, so their pages have no collections. Their councillors come from the council's own list, where each division has two, the member of parliament from Parliament, and the nearest surgery from the NHS.

Departures for the next two hours come from National Rail's own live information, read every four minutes rather than every fifteen. A train that is late with no expected time yet says "delayed" rather than on time.
Trains further ahead than two hours come from the timetable and say "timetabled", because nobody can yet say whether they are running to time. If National Rail's information does not answer, the board goes back to Realtime Trains, and the status page says so.
A page for each station, reached from the station's name on a village's departures: whether it is staffed, how much of it is step free, whether there is a ramp onto the train, tickets, toilets, parking, cycle spaces, and where the replacement buses stop. It comes from National Rail Enquiries.

The power tile now says whether a cut or planned work is actually in your village. When the power is off it shows how long it has been off and when SSEN expects it back. Work more than five kilometres away is left off, and while there is something to show, a card underneath gives the times, the postcodes and the SSEN reference.
This page.

River levels, rainfall and flood warnings are read every ten minutes in a run of their own. The Environment Agency was taking over a minute to answer, and nearly every village was showing those three as too slow to answer.
Departure boards are read every fifteen minutes while trains are running, and once overnight, to stay within the daily allowance Realtime Trains gives this site. At the old rate every board would have run out by the middle of the afternoon.
Pages are now counted, with Cloudflare Web Analytics. It sets no cookies, and the privacy page says what it does and does not collect.
The status page gives one reason per feed when something is behind, rather than repeating it for every village.
A shorter footer, which says who runs the site.

From three villages to sixteen: Batcombe, Beer Hackett, Leigh, Maiden Newton and Ryme Intrinseca, then Bradford Abbas, Cattistock and Evershot, then Melbury Osmond, Melbury Bubb, Trent, Nether Compton and Longburton.
Bin collection dates, from the council's own calendar for each round.
A village with no station shows the departures from the nearest one, and says that it is the nearest.
A departure that is a rail replacement bus says so. For a short while that evening the next train tiles said "Not available" on every village, which was fixed the same evening.
A page for each railway, with the stations in order, reached from the line named on a village page. The journey times on the West of England line were taken down the same day, because they had been read off replacement buses and were wrong.
Each village page names its parish council and says where the village is, in miles from the nearest market towns.
The Tonight card says how long it is properly dark, when it is light again and whether it will rain overnight. The This parish card lists the council, the surgery and how to reach them.
Readings are refreshed every four minutes rather than every fifteen.
A status page showing every feed for every village at once.
The site fits a phone, uses the whole width of a large screen, and each tile at the top of a village page goes to the card it summarises.

parishes.uk went live with pages for Chetnole, Thornford and Yetminster: departures, the river, rainfall, the weather, air quality and pollen, flood and weather warnings, and power cuts.