For many of us, the month of December has us dreaming of escaping to a quaint countryside village reminiscent of The Holiday ...

Most villages in England were not further than a day’s walk from a large church and castle. The king and the church dominated people’s lives, especially if they were one of the eight in ten ...

Canon Andrew Loat said many parishioners will go to a service ... He identified 32 villages in Wales and England, while there are thought to be 13 doubly thankful villages. As communities across ...

As many soldiers killed in the two World Wars ... symbolising the gratitude of the locals. Fourteen villages in England and Wales are considered ‘doubly thankful’, as they also didn’t ...