Our little village now has it’s own website! The Odiham Community Website was finally launched to the world on Thursday 23rd March. The new website was commissioned by the Odiham Town Manager Group, sponsored by gencon and built by Garrett Coakley, Cathy Griffiths and Lee Hughes, who also created www.81redballoons.co.uk.

Odiham is a lovely little village, with one of the richest collections of historic buildings in Hampshire. The buildings in the High Street, many of which have Georgian facades concealing medieval origins, are almost without exception of special architectural or historic interest.

Amongst the many historical attractions in Odiham are Odiham Castle, which was used by King John the night before he travelled to Runnymede to sign the Magna Carta, a 17th century Pest House used to quarantine sufferers of the plague and other infectious diseases and is one of only five such buildings that remain in Great Britain, and our very own set of stocks used up until the early part of the 19th century “to encourage virtue and discourage evil doers”.

The Odiham Community Website has been designed to strengthen the, already strong, sense of community in our area and to give everyone in the village a chance to be involved in the decisions that affect them, and to get their voices heard.

It’s based on a very similar style to www.81redballoons, and contains an ‘Odiham Blog’ as well as information for visitors, community groups and a directory of local business’s and services.

It’s early days yet but this site has been very well received in the village and as more and more people start to use it, and add their voice to it the Odiham Community Website looks set to become an invaluable resource for the area.

We hope you like it.