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The best place to live ? 13 September 2006
HUTTON Cranswick has been named best village in a competition which pitted East Yorkshire
villages against each other. Judges unanimously awarded the Wolds village the title
after being impressed by the community spirit displayed by residents.
Gina Simpson,
co-
"I think what helped us to victory
was the fact that we managed at very short notice to get together a lot of representatives
from the village who were prepared to stand up and say a bit about what their organisation
does."
But she admits it has been hard work organising Hutton Cranswick's entry for
the Calor Village of the Year for England competition and for Yorkshire in Bloom,
for which the village won a Silver Gilt award in the large village category.
"This
was the first year we entered the Calor Village of the Year for England. It was challenging
but we did it. We were really pleased to win and it was absolutely out of the blue."
Judges said of the competition: "The standard of entries was very high so we had
a difficult task selecting the winners.
We have awarded prizes to villages that really
shone in a particular area, but to win the overall title, Hutton Cranswick was consistently
impressive across all six categories and showed great community spirit and collective
engagement during our visit."
Villages including Gilberdyke, Wawne and Seaton presented
their communities to judges from Humber and Wolds Rural Community Council who looked
at aspects such as building community life and business in the community.
After being
voted the Humber and Wolds winner, Hutton Cranswick will represent the county in
the northern England round for a chance to go through to the final.
Mrs Simpson must
now help to put together another entry for the second round which is to be submitted
by the end of November.
It will go head-
Article reproduced by kind permission of the Driffield Times newspaper