Chestfield (Updated 14/02/08)

Chestfield Caravan & Country Park opened today with a mixed reception. When I visited the site, I was surprised to see two Police officers making reservations with the proprietor for next weekend!
Sometimes when you consider taking a break, and want to do a bit of camping, one of the factors you may have to face if you are a dog owner is; will the site allow me to bring "Mutley" along?
Well at the Chestfield Caravan & Country Park not only can you bring your dog, but if you have one; your horse as well!
I wish this venture every success, it's just what Chestfield needs, a spot of reality on their doorstep!
Although there are only four families in residence at present, I am sure more are on their way!!
Driveway repairs are sure to increase in the area, along with non-existent roof repairs and missing garden furniture.

In the New-Year the residents of Chestfield received a late Christmas gift from the Kent Constabulary; namely a hand held speed gun! Now my impression regarding speed cameras and the like was that they were not to raise revenue, but to deter speeding in known accident black-spots. Chestfield to my knowledge has never been an accident black-spot, but yes cars do tend to speed. In my experience, the worst culprits are the residents of the village as they tail-gate motorists who abide by the speed limit along Chestfield Road, let's see how many of them get clocked!
Now they are asking for calming measures on Radfall, as they report most drivers ignore the 30MPH limit and do in excess of 45! No; just the villagers!
Next they will want sleeping policemen on the motorway as people go faster than 70MPH

After reading that Kent Police will be sending out warning letters to all drivers caught by the good Samaritans in Chestfield manning the speed cameras, I came across this along Chestfield Road. Hopefully no one was hurt in this reliant conversion, god knows how it happened as visibility is perfect at this point on the road.
Maybe frogs or toads are to blame as they made a mass exodus from the village before they were asked to come play in Grasmere Road (see the Whitstable Gazette if this bit went over your head).

Rumour has it that in the Chestfield Parish Magazine; times and locations of the speed cameras are published.
Is this to stop residents of this mock Tudor village from getting caught?
I hope they publish this information on their village web site so we can all take advantage of foresight!

Well I hate to say I told you so, but it's official. The motorists of Chestfield were the main culprits caught by police cameras as reported in one of our local papers recently. And these people want their own cameras, why; so they can have a competition to see who goes through the village the fastest?

Chestfield has recently changed the village sign that has stood by the green for the past few years. The new sign; if you are standing still looking at it, seems to be blurred, once you get into a car and reach the speed of some of the locals (say 45+mph) the sign suddenly is sharp!

30/03/06 The residents of Chestfield made it into the Whitstable Times again this week for making up half of the drivers caught by police in a recent speed check in the village. Some people never learn! But look on the bright side, that’s still a drop of 25%.
Check out the village web site to see what measures they are taking to tackle the speeding problem, or to book your place at last years Christmas Dinner!

Silly season is upon us again. I will start with a request from residents of Grasmere Road in Chestfield to have a perfectly healthy horse chestnut tree removed because Newton decided to name a basic law of the universe as gravity. Now many hundreds of years later, the inhabitants of a sleepy mock Tudor village have realised that what grows up must fall down and they don't like it! They no longer want the conkers to fall, so the tree must go and be replaced with a more suitable type of tree. A non shedding plastic one possibly! They are also worried that young children who climb this type of tree may be putting themselves at risk, no shit! So not only can we blame Newton for the conkers falling, he will also get the blame if children start dropping in the Autumn as well.
Chestfield, not the place to go to get a life.