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A best kept village is a village that has won one of the annual county competitions in the United Kingdom for its tidiness, appropriateness, and typicality. The competitions have been nationally organized by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) since the early 1970s.
River football [3] – Played in the village of Bourton-on-the-Water in Gloucestershire. Shrovetide Football – Played over two days (Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday) in the Derbyshire village of Ashbourne. Shin-kicking or hacking or purring – A combat sport that originated in England in the early 17th century. It involves two contestants ...
Playing Place is a village southwest of Truro in Cornwall, England, UK. It is to the east of the A39 road. [ 1 ] The name derives from Cornish ' plain an gwarry ' (meaning "playing place"), an open-air performance area used historically for entertainment and instruction.
Villages in West Yorkshire (31 C, 239 P) This page was last edited on 19 July 2016, at 16:54 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
It is home to both an Anglican church and a Methodist church, a social club with bowling green, a cafe, a playing field on which both cricket and football are played. Also, within the village there are three pubs, the Lower Buck Inn, the Higher Buck and the Waddington Arms. The village is a regular winner of the Lancashire Best Kept Village awards.
Stated on its visitessex.com page as one of the largest villages in England by population size, [4] although the official census population figure is actually higher. Broughton Astley: Leicestershire: 11,940 Broughton Astley is a large village and civil parish located in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. Rawmarsh: South ...
Freshford is a village and civil parish in the Avon valley 6 miles (10 km) south-east of Bath, in the county of Somerset, England.The parish has a population of 551. [1] It is in the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), within the Green Belt [2] and is in a conservation area.