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Do you live in a Village?
has it still got the same charm and Gentility that it had years ago
or have the fast foods taken that away?

Walk us around your Village

I don't live in a village, but I grew up in one!

It grew dramatically around the time I was born and went from a small linear village along the main road and farms in the outlying areas to a large village of about 2000 people. It hasn't grown that much since, the poulation's only increased by about 200, I recon.

It's still pretty much the same as it was when I was a child. The petrol station's gone, but the village shop is still there. The primary school has been renovated (mobiles got rid of and the original building extended), the pub's there too (not that I ever visited it that much!), the playing field is still there, and has improved. There's a Memorial Hall too, built by the local landowner in memory of his son; and a bowling green. One of the posh houses has been turned into a country hotel, and Michael Owen lives just down the road!! There's still Guides, Scouts, WI, youth club etc. There's also a football club, but most of the players don't live in the village.

One of the reason's I think it's still a good place to live is that it's on a good bus route between two market towns; it's in Wales but in easy commuting distance to parts of Cheshire, the Wirral, Mersyside etc.
If I'd complain about anything it's there are a lot of townies who moved in during the eighties, so it went from a village where everybody said "Hello" to each other, to a village were people looked at you funny if you said hello and they didn't know you.

Lovely picture Sue, but I thought you lived in Denmark

I remember the village where we now live, from over 45 years ago, as a bottleneck on one of the main routes leading West. There was a rather dilapidated, but magnificent, Medieval house on the corner of the market square which narrowed the road to two cars width which meant that only one lorry could get through at a time. It was demolished in the 60s, just a couple of years before the bypass was built.

Over the 10 years we've lived here shops have closed and dormitory/retirement estates have been built but it still has a pretty good community. You don't need me to walk you round, Google streetscene can do it for me. The film was taken on the day of a close friends funeral, not that they caught much of it, just the hearse at the cemetery. Shame, they missed a hand drawn bier led by a New Orleans style marching band followed by the mourners who walked from the church to the cemetery on a gloriously sunny day. It was completely OTT, the coffin entered the church to the strains of the Hilltop Hoods Here Come the Girls.

SRD wrote:Lovely picture Sue, but I thought you lived in Denmark

I do!
Born in Sutton Coldfield, grew up in North East Wales, trained in the North Wales School of Radiography, worked in Crewe - then moved to Denmark for a one year locum position! And guess what I'm still here
And I don't think I'll move back any time soon - maybe when we retire, some little ramshackle cottage (with all mod cons) in the middle of no-where!

What's the definition of a village cos i know i used to live in one but it's trebled in size the last 10 years and i'm not sure now!!

I didnt see any pictures from sue?

Im not sure either what you would class as a village.
I think where we live was, border of Yarm and Kirklevington but all around now is much more built up.
Old Yarm
http://rememberwhen.gazettelive.co.uk/2 ... -yarm.html
a friend just sent me this link, I hadnt seen before brilliant photos.

Very near us is also I think the largest housing estate, other side of the river mind
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingleby_Barwick

But it isnt like it used to be...

Jo:)

i as far as i know if it doesnt have a town hall then is a village ?

peterd wrote:ias far as i know if it doesnt have a town hall then ist a village think street in somerst is the biggest in the country ?

Isnt a village if it has a town hall?

Well Yarm hasa town Hall so isnt then!
Kirklevington is then!
Youve been to our house Peter so you will know!
Jo

if it has a town hall it has a council so its a town if its a village it wont have a town hall and will have a parish council think thats the definition between them ?

grangers14 wrote:I didnt see any pictures from sue?

Im not sure either what you would class as a village.
I think where we live was, border of Yarm and Kirklevington but all around now is much more built up.
Old Yarm
http://rememberwhen.gazettelive.co.uk/2 ... -yarm.html
a friend just sent me this link, I hadnt seen before brilliant photos.

Very near us is also I think the largest housing estate, other side of the river mind
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingleby_Barwick

But it isnt like it used to be...

Jo:)

Try googling Sychdyn (for the village) and Soughton (for the hotel). On google maps the old village is around the main road, Black Brook, London Road, and the Vownog. Most of the rest is post 1960's.

peterd wrote:if it has a town hall it has a council so its a town if its a village it wont have a town hall and will have a parish council think thats the definition between them ?

St Asaph has a Cathedral, and used to be considered a city, but today it's a village!

peterd wrote:if it has a town hall it has a council so its a town if its a village it wont have a town hall and will have a parish council think thats the definition between them ?

We don't have a Town Hall but we have a parish council that we pay to.

http://roberttownvillage.org.uk/

Annie

snoopysue wrote:

peterd wrote:if it has a town hall it has a council so its a town if its a village it wont have a town hall and will have a parish council think thats the definition between them ?

St Asaph has a Cathedral, and used to be considered a city, but today it's a village!

St Asaph is classed as a town close to where my aunt use to live

wells in somerset is classed as a city but no bigger than a village

st davids in wales is a city and is not that big both have cathedrals

as does durham which isnt that large either ?

I was always taught that a place was a city if it had a cathedral however big it was.

A village was a group of houses that included a public house, a church and a post office. Less than that and it was a hamlet.

I don't think I'd like to live in The Village. Number 2 comes across as rather evil , and they never tell you who Number 1 is!

And if you try to leave they send a giant ball to get you back.