Thankful Villages

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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

[edit] External links

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