Judging of the first round of this year’s CPRE (Campaign to protect Rural England) Wiltshire and The Hills Group Best Kept Village Competition, sponsored by The Hills Group, is now complete. The first round of the competition saw the expert judging teams from the Wiltshire Branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England putting each village under the microscope.
39 villages throughout the county were tested against the competition criteria which look for tidiness, cleanliness, presentation and village community spirit. 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 of four districts: West Wiltshire, North Wiltshire, South Wiltshire and Kennet (East Wiltshire).
North Wiltshire and Swindon:
Large Villages
1st Box
2nd Brinkworth
3rd Hullavington
4th Wroughton
Medium Villages
1st Biddestone
2nd Oaksey
3rd Dauntsey
Small Villages
1st Upper & Lower Seagry
2nd Charlton
3rd Marston Meysey
4th Clyffe Pypard
Each winning village will receive a certificate and is now being judged against the similar sized villages in the other districts, to determine the best kept large, medium and small villages in Wiltshire.
Finally, it is important to point out that this competition could not take place without the very generous contributions of our sponsors, the support of Wiltshire Council and of course the immense hard work put in by individual parish councils and villagers.
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