Best Kept Village Competition

The Best Kept Village competition has been running in Northern Lincolnshire since 1976.

It is organised and run by CPRE Northern Lincolnshire and is open to all small towns and villages within that area. The competition has been generously sponsored by InternetTY and Quickline, the assistance of which continues to be much appreciated.

Thank you to all those villages who participated in the 2025 competition. As usual, judging took into consideration a number of criteria with the emphasis on community involvement. Entrants were placed in groups according to their population size and those placed first, second and third in each group received an award.

In addition, our community volunteers also competed in a number of individual categories:

• Best Community Planting
• Best kept Playground,
• Best kept Churchyard,
• Best kept Cemetery,
• Best kept War Memorial,
• Best kept Public House.

For full details please refer to our score sheet here.

To see some wonderful pictures of some of the best floral creations on display, download our Best Kept Village 2025 Newsletter.

We are pleased to make the following announcement of all 2025 winners.

Small Village

1st: Low Burnham.
2nd:Elsham.

3rd: East Lound

Highly Commended: Appleby, Redbourne.

Medium Village

1st: Barnetby-le-Wold.
2nd: Owston Ferry
3rd: Ulceby

Highly Commended: East Halton, West Butterwick

Large Village

1st: Scawby

2nd Westwoodside,
Joint 3rd: Belton, Haxey.

Highly Commended: Messingham.

Small Town 

1st: Barton-upon-Humber
2nd: Epworth.
3rd: Broughton

Highly Commended: Crowle and Ealand, Waltham, Winterton.

Other Category Awards

Best Community Planting:

• Small Village: Low Burnham
• Medium Village: Barnetby-le-Wold
• Large Village: Scawby
• Small Town: Barton-upon-Humber

Best Kept Churchyard: West Butterwick

Runner up: North Killingholme

Best Kept War Memorial: Messingham

Runner up: Waltham

Best Kept Cemetery: Winterton

Runner up: Broughton

Best Kept Playground: Scawby

Runner up: Ulceby

Best Kept Public House: The Crown, Belton

Runner up: The Tilted Barrel, Waltham

Thanks to everyone who participated. We look forward to running the competition again in 2026.

The winners for 2024 were as follows:

Small Village

1st: Low Burnham
3rd: East Lound, Elsham

Highly Commended: Garthorpe and Fockerby and Redbourne

Medium Village

1st: Barnetby-le-Wold
2nd: Wootton
3rd: Ulceby

Highly Commended: Owston Ferry, South Ferriby

Large Village

1st=: Belton, Westwoodside:
Joint 3rd: Goxhill, Haxey

Highly Commended: Messingham, Scawby

Small Town 

1st: Broughton
2nd: Epworth
3rd: Crowle and Ealand

Highly Commended: Barton-upon-Humber, Waltham, Winterton

Other Category Awards

Best Community Planting:

• Small Village: Low Burnham
• Medium Village: Ulceby
• Large Village: Westwoodside
• Small Town: Broughton

Best Kept Churchyard: West Butterwick

Best Kept War Memorial: Kirton in Lindsey

Best Kept Cemetery: Waltham

Best Kept Playground:  Scawby