How this site keeps itself up to date
Every feed and page the site watches, and how often.
Nobody has time to run a village website by hand, so this one does part of the work itself. The server checks the sources below on a schedule. An AI assistant, through Kalchevo, reads anything new, writes a plain summary with a link back to the original, and puts it in a queue for a person to approve. Nothing is published without a source link, and nothing in the history section is written by AI.
| Chesil Bank Parish Council | Agendas, minutes, notices and anything affecting the four parishes. | Weekly |
| Parish council: Abbotsbury page | The village's own page on the council site, with groups, facilities and contacts. | Weekly |
| Parish council: agendas and minutes | New agendas and minutes, so decisions about the village reach the noticeboard. | Weekly |
| Dorset Council: Abbotsbury Historic Towns Survey | The county's archaeological survey of the village. Watched in case new sections appear. | Fortnightly |
| abbotsbury.co.uk (old village site) | Watched for news only. Its facts are years out of date, so anything found here is treated as a lead to check, never published as fact. | Weekly |
| Abbotsbury Swannery | Season opening and closing, prices, events, cygnet and round-up news. | Weekly |
| Swannery events | Half term, Ghostly Games, trails and anything new. | Weekly |
| Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens | Opening times, prices, Illuminate and Santa dates. | Weekly |
| Gardens events | Event dates and ticket links. | Weekly |
| Abbotsbury Beachcombers | Fireworks, fête, bingo, quiz and band nights. | Weekly |
| Swan Inn | Opening, menu and event changes at the pub. | Weekly |
| Abbey Farm | Which studios and shops are trading at Abbey Farm and their hours. | Weekly |
| St Nicholas' Church | Service times and church events. | Weekly |
| Chesil Bank Pre-School | Sessions, term dates and places. | Weekly |
| English Heritage: Abbey remains | Access changes at the abbey, barn and chapel. | Fortnightly |
| Dorset National Landscape | Projects and consultations affecting the coast and the village. | Fortnightly |
| Jurassic Coast Trust | Coast news, cliff falls and events. | Fortnightly |
| Ilchester Estates | Estate news; the estate owns much of the village. | Fortnightly |
| Dorset Council roadworks map | Planned roadworks on the B3157 and the lanes. | Daily |
| Dorset Council news | Anything mentioning Abbotsbury, Chesil or the coast road. | Daily |
| Dorset Council planning | New applications in the village. | Weekly |
| Dorset Echo | News mentioning Abbotsbury. | Daily |
| Bridport and Lyme Regis News | News mentioning Abbotsbury. | Daily |
| BBC Dorset | Anything mentioning Abbotsbury or Chesil. | Daily |
| First Bus service updates | X53 and X52 changes and cancellations. | Daily |
| Dorset Council closed schools | Schools shut in bad weather. | Daily |
| Wessex Water incidents | Water supply problems and burst mains. | Daily |
| Environment Agency flood warnings | Flood alerts for Chesil and the Fleet. | Twice a day |
| Weymouth Life bus feed | Live departures and bus positions, read straight from Simon's own API every minute. | Live |
| SSEN PowerTrack | Power cuts in DT3 4, checked every five minutes by the site itself. | Live |
| Met Office, Abbotsbury | Weather, read live from Open-Meteo every fifteen minutes. | Live |
| Weymouth Life closed schools | Portesham and the secondary schools village children travel to. Read live from Simon's own feed every fifteen minutes. A banner appears only when one is shut. | Live |
| Dorset Council: report a problem | The roads and pavements reporting page, watched for changes to the forms and notices like the September 2026 switch off. | Weekly |
| Dorset Council: complaints | The complaints procedure, in case the one stage process or the numbers change. | Weekly |
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