Eighth Sunday after Trinity - we welcome all, and we welcome families and children of all ages to share this Service with us - you are invited to join our Sunday morning Family Service - a specially created all-age family service. We look forward to seeing you as we gather at our friendly church.
There’s plenty of parking space at the Village Hall, thank you.
** Somersham Summer Fête is on Saturday 25th July - 2/4pm in the churchyard - we welcome one & all! **
Our eight linked parishes are: Barking, Battisford, Bricett, Flowton, Offton, Ringshall, Somersham and Willisham. 
Full details of all our Services, and those of our eight linked parishes, appear in every issue of The Link Newsletter - please see The Link on the above menu.

Sunday Roasts
Beef  |  Lamb  |  Herbed Chicken breast  |  Cajun Spiced Sweet Potato Roulade (VE)  |
All of our roasts are served with seasonal vegetables, cauliflower cheese (gf), roast potatoes and a Yorkshire pudding. (Gluten free Yorkshire pudding available upon request).
Sample Sunday Menu
Breaded whole-tail scampi (gfa)  |  Cajun Spiced Chicken Breast (gf)  |  Coconut Penang Curry (VE)  |  Creamy Macaroni Cheese (V)  |  Cumberland sausage & mash  |  Homemade 7oz Beef Burger  |  Vegetable Lasagne  |  Quorn Buttermilk burger (VE)  |
Booking your table is strongly recommended - please book your table at:
www.thedukeofmarlborough.com/book-a-table 
HAPPY HOURS
Enjoy a range of selected drinks at a reduced price! - every week on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Sunday: 5 – 6pm.

Welcome to our July acoustic night!! Bring your favourite instrument and join in. Performed in and around the table, buskers format. All musicians and singers welcome. Very many talented people turn up, and enjoy a lovely atmosphere, like buskers’ evenings of old. 
Lovely to see so many happy people enjoying themselves and the ambience of our lovely, dear community-owned pub!
There’s a warm welcome waiting for accordions, banjos, double basses, fiddles, guitars, harmonicas, percussion, ukuleles, and a plethora of other instruments - not to mention plenty of a cappella and other singing. Everyone, from beginners to experienced musicians and singers, is welcome! ……it’s amazing to think that there’s probably been music and singing in our village pub for over 500 years!

Date for your diary!!!  –  FUN DOG SHOW – Sunday 27th September (in support of Ipswich Riding for the Disabled Association). Full details will be available over the summer - https://gofrolic.co.uk
The Somersham FUN DOG SHOW will be raising funds for the voluntary group, The Ipswich Group Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) - which provides therapeutic riding and equine therapy for children and adults with special needs. The gentle movement of the horse provides excellent therapeutic benefits for balance, coordination, and overall well-being.
Our fields are next to Somersham Village Hall.

Our small, welcoming café is open 10:00am-3:30pm Monday to Friday, and 10:00am-12:30pm Saturdays - (CLOSED on Sundays). TAKE-AWAY and OWN-MUG also available. 
** Meet Up Mondays – 2pm, every Monday (except Bank Holidays) - ALL ARE WELCOME! **
Please stop by for a chat or drop in to warm-up (or cool down…..don’t forget, we have air-conditioning!) after a walk around the village and along our beautiful local footpaths!
If you’re working from home, stretch your legs and pick up something nice for your lunch from our well-stocked shelves, chillers and freezers.
Or maybe your dog needs a walk….but you need a hot (or cold!!) drink!
We also have picnic tables on the playing field next to our Shop; including accessible tables providing comfortable and convenient seating for individuals using wheelchairs, and which can also make life easier for parents. We also have an accessible toilet and a changing mat.

It’s £1.00 per month to enter the Somersham Tennis Club Lottery, with 50% of the proceeds as prize money, and 50% towards the upkeep of the tennis courts. 
The courts are free for all to use for tennis, no booking is required. If you’d like to make a donation, please use the QR code on the court gate.
Our community Lottery keeps the courts available to local people.
We welcome new Lottery players | each player also helps to support Junior Tennis, lessons for children and teenagers aged up to 16 - where local youngsters learn to play, and are taught new skills to help improve their game.
Junior Tennis coaching re-started on 13th April, on Monday evenings - thank you!
5pm - age group 4-8 years | 5:45pm - age group 8+
Limited places left - £3 per child per session each Monday, starting after Easter, weather depending.
:: The Somersham Tennis Club Lottery is licensed with Mid Suffolk District Council.
:: Somersham Tennis Club was established in 2007.

A shop for Somersham and the surrounding villages, largely run by volunteers, please call us on 07424 955931. Our shop supplies daily essentials as well as useful ingredients, and quality goods from Suffolk and East Anglian food producers - many of whom are local, regional or national award-winners. Some producers deliver direct to us, so we all get to know each other!
Our shop is also a social & information hub, and is welcoming for volunteers and customers alike.
If you wish to order items, or simply want to pop to our shop when the products you’re after are available: please see below. Orders can be one-off or regular.
Somersham & District Community Shop - telephone: 07424 955931
ORDERS
Monday: eggs
Tuesday: bread and meat
Wednesday: milk, fruit & veg
Thursday: bread, and Shire Foods East Anglia (wholefoods etc)
Friday: bread
Saturday: Bookers (fortnightly, wholesale general stock)
Sunday: pies, milk, fruit & veg, and tomatoes - and cheese etc. (fortnightly)
DELIVERIES
Monday:
EARLY - Bread (Palmers), Milk and Fruit & Veg (Richards)
12:30pm - Tomatoes (Suffolk Fresh)
Tuesday:
EARLY - Eggs (Gate Farm, Flowton)
11am - Bookers (wholesale general stock) - fortnightly
1:15pm - Pies: with meat, vegetable and sweet choices - plus sausage rolls, pork pies, quiches etc (Country Pies)
Wednesday:
EARLY - Bread (Palmers)
12:30pm - Cheese, Ham and Smoked Fish (Hamish Johnston Cheesemonger, Lane Farm Country Foods of Suffolk, and Pinney's of Orford) - fortnightly
Thursday:
EARLY - Milk and Fruit & Veg (Richards)
AFTERNOON - Meat (beef, chicken, liver, pork and more) Bacon, Sausages (Oak House Farm, Sproughton)
Friday:
EARLY - Bread (Palmers)
AFTERNOON - Shire Foods East Anglia (wholefoods etc.) - fortnightly

Whether you’re planning a BBQ or Sunday Roast?….are looking for sausages, bacon, gammon or liver for breakfast?…..or simply looking to make a great stew or Bolognaise….?
The local meat in our Community Shop is raised at Oak House Farm, Sproughton; through traditional mixed farming - rare-breeds including Gloucestershire Old Spot and Large White pigs, and Red Poll and Shorthorn cattle, provide all of the beef and pork for our chillers and freezer.
Lamb and poultry are sourced from shepherds and farms in Suffolk.
:: Rare breeds that have been integral part of the British landscape for centuries - and raised to the highest standards of animal welfare.
:: Fed with animal feed that is made on the farm in Sproughton, predominantly from locally-grown ingredients.
:: Whilst Oak Tree Farm treat their stock with medicine when necessary, they do not use routine antibiotics.
:: Quality products that taste fantastic - prices are always competitive.
As well as traditional items, Special cuts can be ordered - such as Cowboy Steaks (1kg reach!!), and Rib-Eye and Sirloin beef steaks.
Also Rolled-Shoulder of Pork, or Rack of Pork Ribs.
And Leg, Rack or Shoulder of Lamb - and Barnsley chops! Plus when in season, we can supply Hogget for fabulous slow-cooking. Hogget is lamb that’s had two springs and summers (ie, it’s over a year old) on grass. An extra six months grazing on luscious spring and autumn pasture really makes a difference to the taste - it outshines lamb for flavour.
Whole free-range chicken and all the usual cuts are available - as well as Chicken Cushions and Spatchcock Chicken (this is particularly good for barbecues!).
Sausages, mince, bacon are always available - and liver, heart, and kidneys can be ordered. Gluten-free sausages can also be ordered.
We also sell fantastic local Tomatoes from the Suffolk Fresh greenhouses at Bramford , and fruit & veg, and super local ice-cream from Alder Tree - and wonderful cheeses from award-winning cheesemonger Hamish Johnston - plus a range of beer, lager and wine.
For CHRISTMAS you can order farm-reared free-range Chickens (large, up to 6kg) and locally-reared Turkeys - please note, these orders need to be made in the autumn.

SOMERSHAM SCARECROW TRAIL - :: 1st to 31st August 2026. Scarecrow Trail Maps can found at Somersham & District Community Shop and at the Duke of Marlborough - from 1st August, £2 each.
Our village scarecrow display is a beloved, annual community event, where residents craft and display creative figures and scenes from straw - and many other materials!  Locals craft often-hilarious, pun-filled figures using old clothes, recycled materials, straw, and props…….displaying them on garden walls or hedges, or in trees or windows. Many will be hidden away, just waiting to be discovered!!
The event, which is organised by FOSS, is an opportunity to walk around the village and enjoy creative talent as well as have a really jolly time!
:: HELP CREATE THE SCARECROW TRAIL AROUND SOMERSHAM - this year's theme is ROCK AND POP STARS!  Join in with the Scarecrow Trail and make your own fabulous scarecrow, family-made scarecrows are very welcome! Please email the FOSS team on fossfundraisers@gmail.com with details of whom your scarecrow will portray, and where it’ll be located (villagers of Somersham only please).
:: JOURNEY ALONG THE SCARECROW TRAIL - The Trail is displayed from 1st August to 31st August 2026. Scarecrow Trail Maps can found at Somersham & District Community Shop and at the Duke of Marlborough - from 1st August, £2 each.
[ Photograph shows scarecrows made by SOMERSHAM YOUTH CLUB ]