THANKFUL VILLAGES

The 'Thankful Villages' is a list of the villages of England and Wales which lost no men in World War I. The 32 villages were identified by the writer Arthur Mee in the 1930s.
Norman Thorpe and Tom Morgan have identified the following parishes in England and Wales from which all soldiers returned:

;Buckinghamshire

★ Stoke Hammond
;Derbyshire

★ Bradbourne
;Essex

★ Strethall
;Glamorgan

★ Colwinston
;Gloucestershire

★ Brierley

★ Coln Rogers

★ Little Sodbury
;Herefordshire

★ Middleton-on-the-Hill
;Hertfordshire

★ Puttenham
;Kent

★ Knowlton

;Lancashire

★ Arkholme
;Lincolnshire

★ Nether Kellett

★ Bigby

★ High Toynton
;Northamptonshire

★ Woodend
;Northumberland

★ Meldon
;Nottinghamshire

★ Cromwell

★ Maplebeck

★ Wigsley

★ Wysall
;Rutland

★ Teigh
;Shropshire

★ Harley

;Somerset

★ Aisholt

★ Chantry

★ Chelwood

★ Rodney Stoke

★ Stocklinch

★ Tellisford

★ Woolley
;Suffolk

★ Culpho

★ South Elmham St. Michael

★ Wordwell
;Yorkshire

★ Catwick

★ Cundall

★ Norton-le-Clay

★ Scruton


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★ http://www.fylde.demon.co.uk/thankful.htm

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