Results from Wiltshire's Best Kept Village Competition's first round of judging are in

Villages in Wiltshire competing to be this year’s CPRE Wiltshire and CCm Technologies Best Kept Village Competition in the county have found out if they have taken one step closer to the prize as the results of the first round of judging are announced.

This year’s competition started with 29 villages from around the county who were put under the microscope by the expert team of judges who are looking for criteria including tidiness, cleanliness, presentation and village community spirit.

One village, Heytesbury, has been announced as this year’s ‘Best Newcomer’ and will receive a £150 cash prize.

Pawel Kisielewski, CEO of CCm Technologies, said: “CCm is all about making the environment a better place and salutes the achievement of villages across Wiltshire in being recognised at this stage of the competition.”

Mike Manson from CPRE Wiltshire said: “As usual, the parish councils and their volunteers had clearly been hard at work, achieving encouragingly high standards and making the judges’ task that much more difficult."

Each village is judged within the categories of ‘Small’, ‘Medium’ and ‘Large’ and in this first round they are only judged within their own district: West Wiltshire, North Wiltshire, South Wiltshire or Kennet (East Wiltshire).

The final results will be announced in August and on the 25 September the presentations to the winners will be made in each of the villages.

The results from the first stage of judging, are as follows:

North Wiltshire and Swindon:

Large Villages

• 1^st Box
• 2^nd Ashton Keynes
• 3^rd  Brinkworth
• 4^th  Blunsdon
• 5^th  Hullavington
• 6^th  Tadpole Garden Village Box              

Medium Villages

• 1^st Great Somerford
• 2^nd Biddestone         

Small Villages

• 1^st Charlton              
• 2^nd Hankerton                      

Kennet: 

Large Villages

• 1^st Bromham            
• 2^nd Seend     

Medium Villages

• 1^st All Cannings       
• 2^nd Froxfield

Small Villages

• 1^st Rushall
• 2^nd Woodborough

West Wiltshire:

Large Villages

• 1^st Hilperton
• 2^nd Dilton Marsh
• 3^rd Southwick

Medium Villages

• 1^st Heytesbury
• 2^nd Sutton Veny                   

Small Villages

• 1^st Tytherington
• 2^nd Bishopstrow
• 3^rd Knook
• 4^th Bulkington

South Wiltshire:

Large Villages

• 1^st Whiteparish
• 2^nd Alderbury

Medium Villages

• 1^st Hindon (only entrant)    

Small Villages

• 1^st Stapleford (only entrant)

Each winning village will receive a certificate and in July it will be judged against the similar sized villages in the other districts, to determine the best kept large, medium and small villages in Wiltshire.