Praise for North Lincolnshire’s Best Kept Small Villages

Once again our Best Keep Village competition has unearthed a clutch of botanical gems. First up, the results from the small village category.

The standard in the small village category only gets higher each year!

Congratulations go to first place winners Low Burnham. Well done! Low Burnham was considered to be just ahead of the competition this year with yet another stunning display of planting. Community planting in this immaculate village was on the theme of painted chairs and much imagination was demonstrated in including a chair in all the floral displays. Not surprisingly, Low Burnham also won the best community planting in the small village category, which remains the most hotly contested competition.

There was also a wonderfully colourful display of planting in joint third place winning East Lound, mostly in wheelbarrows and wellingtons, including sheaves of corn and delightful knitted snails. High quality community planting was also a feature of the immaculate village of Elsham which also had a well-planted telephone kiosk. Scoring equally with East Lound, Elsham’s attractive coordinated planting beneath the very smart street name signs is a most impressive aspect to the village. The display included recognition of the village winning the ‘Best Kept Small Village’ competition in previous years, and it was pleasing to see similar signs and winners’ plaques being displayed in other villages.

It is clear from the judges’ comments that all villages take great pride in their local community. This was well demonstrated by the almost total lack of litter found in any of the small villages. This was certainly the case in the two villages that were highly commended, Garthorpe and Fockerby and Redbourne.

For more details on this years competition visit the main competition page