Our last post got an immediate response.
Brett Dorney reported that, according to the Connecting Devon and Somerset Programme, Horsington will go live with Superfast Broadband in January 2016. They point out that timescales may change, and there is no indication how far the broadband will reach. Marsh dwellers, be warned.
Eagle eyed John Macdonald, chairman of the village hall committee, thinks he’s spotted the “cabinet”. He reports, “Wandering round town the other day, I enquired of the gents pulling wires down holes if this was the much vaunted fibre optics we had been waiting for? No such luck, These are the conduits for the fibre optics. At least it is a step in the right direction. And I notice they have been laid all the way down to Templecombe.
“There is a ‘cabinet’, in fact two, (look for a green box about a metre long by half a metre high) for Horsington itself on the main road by Horsington House Lodge opposite the entrance to Stowell Lane. I would imagine there must be one somewhere in South Cheriton.” (We can’t find it -ED)
Thanks everyone. This is exactly what the Blog is for. Let us know what’s going on and we’ll report it. Ed
That’s good news to hear that the “cabinets” have been found – thank you for telling us, and gosh this blog works well…
Now we just have to measure our distance from each of those cabinets to assess whether we are more than 2km away (we on the Marsh most definitely are..). I will mail everyone on my petition list so far. Please sign up if you feel moved to lobby further!
Not the real ‘cabinet’? I have been told that when Superfast Broadband is introduced there will be a new cabinet, usually situated near the present cabinet. My informant spotted one in Exeter yesterday. It’s about a third of the size of the present cabinet. If any of the anoraks among us wishes to inspect one, there is one in Mere somewhere. -ED