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Celebration for Avonside's Top Villages

The winning villages in the 2005 Avonside Village of the Year competition have been honoured at a presentation event held on Saturday 26th November at the Rangeworthy King George V Memorial Hall. The competition is organised by the Avonside branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), with sponsorship provided by Calor - the UK’s leading supplier of LPG (liquefied petroleum gas). Also, competition support from Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) this year has led to the provision of £500 additional prize money specifically for the Building Community Life category. As well as looking at how well villages take care of their appearance, the competition assesses communities on six major aspects of village life with categories in building community life, young people, older people, business, the environment and information communication technology (ICT).

Ian Sachs of Calor presented representatives of the winning communities with their awards, which included framed commemorative certificates. He was joined by Sue Rees representing Defra. (For full results of the competition please refer below).

The North Somerset village of Long Ashton is representing Avonside in the prestigious national Calor Village of the Year^® for England competition, with Chew Magna competing in the ICT section. More than 40 villages across England will be competing in the competition, which has a total prize fund of £36,000 and a top prize of £6,000. Long Ashton and Chew Magna are competing in the West England region of the national competition against villages from Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Wiltshire and Worcestershire. The full results of the Calor Village of the Year^® for England competition will be revealed by guest of honour Alan Titchmarsh at an awards event being held in London on Tuesday 6th December.

For further information regarding the Avonside Village of the Year competition, please contact Brian Challis at info@calorvillageoftheyear.org.

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2005 Avonside Village of the Year Competition Results

Overall Winners

Cup Winners Shield: Tytherington

Wills Cup (large villages): Olveston

Armstrong Cup (small villages): Tytherington

Most Improved: Stanton Drew

District Winners

Large Villages Small Villages

B&NES Timsbury Chew Magna

North Somerset Congresbury Kingston Seymour

South Gloucestershire Olveston Tytherington

All results

Large Villages Small Villages

90%+ Olveston Chew Magna

Kingston Seymour

Ubley

Tytherington

80%+ Bathampton Bitton

Congresbury Hawkesbury

Long Ashton Norton Malreward

Marshfield Kenn

Pucklechurch Stanton Drew

Wrington Tockington

Timsbury

<80% Hanham Abbotts Cleeve

North Common English Combe Village

Oldland Common Woollard

Pucklechurch

Wick

Building Community Life category –

Bath & North East Somerset:

Large village 1st Timsbury

Small village 1st Ubley

2nd Chew Magna

3rd Norton Malreward

North Somerset:

Large village 1st equal Congresbury

Long Ashton

Wrington

Small village 1st Kingston Seymour

2nd Cleeve

3rd Kenn

South Gloucestershire:

Large village 1st Marshfield

2nd Oldland Common

Small village 1st Tytherington

2nd Bitton