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Buckinghamshire's Best Kept Winners Honoured

The winning villages in the 2005 Buckinghamshire Best Kept Village competition have been honoured at a series of village based presentation events taking place on Saturday 24th September.

The competition is run by the Bucks Association of Local Councils (BALC) with sponsorship provided by Calor, the UK’s leading supplier of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and additional support from the County Council, Milton Keynes Council, and District Councils from Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Bucks and Wycombe.

Representatives of the winning villages were presented with their awards by Sir Henry Aubrey Fletcher, the Vice Lord Lieutenant and Richard Pushman, competition chairman and Vice President of BALC. They were joined at the event in Cuddington by John Harrison of Calor.

The winning villages in the Buckinghamshire Best Kept Village competition are as follows –

Gurney Cup (population under 500):

Winner: Weston Underwood

Runner-up: Fulmer

Morris Cup (population 501-1500):

Winner: Cuddington

Runner-up: Hedgerley

DeFraine Cup (population 1501-3000):

Winner: Cheddington

Runner-up: Seer Green

Michaelis Cup (urban population 3000+):

Winner: Buckingham

Runner-up: Olney

Pushman Cup (rural population 3000+):

Winner: Chalfont St Peter

Runner-up: Chalfont St Giles

Tindall Cup (2004 cup winners):

Winner: Marlow

Runner-up: Little Marlow

Sword of Excellence (winner with the highest marks):

Cuddington

The winning villages in the Buckinghamshire Village of the Year competition are being presented with their prizes at an event taking place on Tuesday 11th October at the County Hall, Aylesbury. Further information regarding both the Best Kept Village and Village of the Year competitions is available from BALC by email at balc@buckscc.gov.uk, or by telephoning 01296 383154.

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