Best Kept Village
BEST KEPT VILLAGE COMPETITION 2010 - TIMETABLE.
For those entering, judging or just interested in the competition click here for this years timetable.
Following the success of last year's competions the application forms for this year's competitions have been sent to all villages who have entered in prvious years. If you or your local school would like to enter this year and have not received a form please download them from here: BKV Form. Pam Parker Map Competition Form.
PAM PARKER CHILDREN'S MAP COMPETITION RESULTS 2009 click here.
RESULTS FOR 2009:
Past Winners
Winner East Budleigh
Runner up Witheridge
Large Villages
Winner Dunsford
Runner up Stoke Gabriel
Small Villages
Winner Clovelly
Runner up Atherington
New Entries
Winner Talaton
Runner up Thurlstone
2008 RESULTS ARE NOW OUT.
BEST KEPT VILLAGE COMPETITION
Past Winners
Winner Offwell
Runner up Sheepwash
Large Villages
Winner Woolsery
Runner up Marldon
Small Villages
Winner Dalwood
Runner up Frithelstock
New Entries
Winner Witheridge
Runner up Whimple
Many congratulations to the winners and a big WELL DONE to everyone to entered. A great deal of hard work goes into this competion, both by the villages concerned and our team of terrific judges. THANK YOU to all of them. THE PAM PARKER MAP COMPETITION
THE “PAM PARKER BEST KEPT VILLAGE MAP AWARD”.
Rebecca Pankiewiez. Year 5. Dunsford Primary School.
Highly commended:
Chloe Sharland. Dunsford Primary School
Rebekkah Hoskin. Bishop’s Nympton Primary School.
Holly Rawlings. Kenton School.
THE SCHOOL PRODUCING THE HIGHEST QUALITY & MOST USEFUL MAPS.
Peter Tavy Junior Church Primary School.
Highly Commended:
Bishop’s Nympton Primary School.
Bratton Fleming Community Primary School.
Dunsford Primary School.
For the PRESS RELEASE click here.
The aim of the competition 
The competition is sponsored by Mole Valley Farmers and organised by CPRE. The object of the competition is to encourage villages to harness their sense of community into keeping each village clean, well cared for and environmentally friendly. (Details on entry form)
CPRE has organised the Best Kept Village Competition for 38 years. It is an immensely popular competition and easy to enter. All we are asking is whether a village is doing the best for itself given what it has. Please see our entry form in order to see the criteria upon which the judges award marks.
2008 is another exciting year when Devon CPRE and MVF work together towards the success of the competition. As well as funding the running of Best Kept Village Competition, MVF is providing a prize of £100 of MVF tokens for each winner in the 4 categories of entry.
The 4 Categories are:
Past Winners
Small Villages
Large Villages
New Entries
(Details on entry form)
Devon CPRE in an initiative to involve the next generation in its work has, since 2004, invited children of primary school age to enter the Map Competition. These maps are designed to help the judges in their difficult task of looking in detail around each village. In 2006 both Ugborough and Shaldon Schools won the Map Competition and each received a £50 Book Token for the school library. Christow, Dolton and Stoke Fleming Schools were highly commended.
Our team of over 45 judges have a Workshop Day each year before judging begins. This was held on 5th April 2008 at Filleigh Village Hall in North Devon. Some of our judges have been part of the team for many years and are able to give extremely helpful advice to new judges. Judging is taken very seriously indeed and some sets of judges actually stay in a village overnight in order to get the feel of the village being judged!
The villages are judged in 3 rounds in May, June with the final round in July/August. The results are announced in August. During the autumn we celebrate with the winning villages and schools at their presentations. These are always happy and memorable occasions.
More details and an application form. (pdf)
