Congratulations to Our Award Winning Small Villages

Congratulations to a fresh batch of beautiful north Lincolnshire villages winning this years Best Kept Village competition. Congratulation to each and every one!

Claiming joint first prize in the category ‘Best Small Village’ we have East Lound and Low Burnham.

Our judges were bowled over to see both villages providing such stunning planting, with nearly all residents contributing to delightful and innovative displays. East Lound chose a planted and decorated wheelbarrow theme, many of which also had gonks or gnomes somewhere in the display while Low Burnham maintained its consistently excellent standard with a ‘bee’ theme with numerous bees, hives and sunflowers throughout the village.

Of course, both villages had to be exceptional to top the extremely high standard set by 2022 joint winner, Elsham, who this year claimed a very respectable third place.

Garthorpe and Fockerby and Redbourne also scored high marks and were highly commended by the judges. Indeed there was much to praise in the small village category this year.

Meanwhile, Amcotts found themselves the proud winners of this year’s Best Kept Churchyard competition. St Marks’s in the centre of the village has a very well-maintained churchyard with many attractive features. There is a very smart information board at the entrance and the site is enhanced with very good planting, including a lovely tiered planter. The churchyard also includes a Butterfly Garden and the very attractive war memorial.

Our judges were most impressed with the involvement of all village communities in caring for their local environment, and a commendable absence of litter throughout. Thank you to everyone who took part!