The village directory
We list just a few of Britain’s notable addresses
On celluloid
Bampton, Oxfordshire (Downton Abbey) Biddestone, Wiltshire (Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death) Castle Combe, Wiltshire (War Horse) Corsham, Wiltshire (Poldark) Heydon, Norfolk (The Go-between) Kettlewell, North Yorkshire (Calendar Girls) Laugharne, Carmarthenshire (The Edge of Love) Port Isaac, Cornwall (Doc Martin) Turville, Buckinghamshire (Vicar of Dibley) Walpole St Andrew, Norfolk (Atonement)
Prize-winners in 2016
Beer, Devon (Britain in Bloom) Bellingham, Northumberland (Britain in Bloom)
Bretforton, Worcestershire (Country Pub of the Year, The Fleece Inn, www.thefleeceinn.co.uk) Dunster, Somerset (Inn of the Year, Luttrell Arms, www.luttrellarms.co.uk) Hillsborough, Ulster (Britain in Bloom) Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire (Village High Street of the Year) Ponsanooth, Cornwall (Countryside Alliance best shop)
Good food
Chew Magna, Somerset (Pony & Trap, www.theponyandtrap.co.uk) Craven Arms, Shropshire (D. W. Wall & Son, www.wallsbutchers.co.uk) Doddington, Lincolnshire (Doddington
Hall farm shop, www.doddingtonhall.com) Kingham, Oxfordshire (The Wild Rabbit, http://thewildrabbit.co.uk) Knowstone, Devon (The Masons Arms, www.masonsarmsdevon.co.uk) Llandrillo, Denbighshire (Tyddyn Llan, www.tyddynllan.co.uk) Old Hunstanton, Norfolk (The Neptune, http://theneptune.co.uk) Pilsley, Derbyshire (Chatsworth Farm Shop, www.chatsworth.org) St Mawes, Cornwall (The Idle Rocks, http://idlerocks.com) Uckfield, West Sussex (South Brockwells Farm Shop, www.southbrockwellsfarm.co.uk)
Where hounds meet
Albury, Surrey (Surrey Union Hunt) Broadway, Worcestershire (North Cotswold) Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire (Heythrop) Exford, Somerset (Devon & Somerset Staghounds) Hannington, Hampshire (Vine & Craven) Helston, Cornwall (Cury) Kirby Bellars, Leicestershire (Quorn) Knighton, Powys (Tanatside) Talybont-on-usk, Powys (Brecon & Talybont) Upton-upon-severn, Worcestershire (Croome & West Warwickshire)
Points of interest
Bainton, East Yorkshire (The Gallery on the Wolds, www.woldsvillage.co.uk)
Badminton, Gloucestershire (horse trials, www.badminton-horse.co.uk) Hartfield, East Sussex (Poohsticks Bridge, www.pooh-country.co.uk)
Haworth, West Yorkshire (Brontë Parsonage Museum, www.bronte.org.uk) Hoghton, Lancashire (Hoghton Tower, www.hoghtontower.co.uk) Little Snoring, Norfolk (airfield, www.the-snorings.co.uk) Lympne, Kent (Port Lympne Reserve, www.aspinallfoundation.org) Lyne, Surrey (Great Cockcrow Railway, www.cockcrow.co.uk) Portmeirion, Gywnedd (Castell Deudraeth, www.portmeirion-village.com)
Festivals
Chiddingstone, Kent (literature, April 30– May 2, www.chiddingstonecastle.org.uk) Cushendall, Co Antrim (fair, food, carnival, August 5–13, www.glensfestival.com) Kettlewell, North Yorkshire (scarecrows, August 12–20, www.kettlewellscarecrowfestival.co.uk) Leigh, Dorset (food, July 29, www. leighvillage.org.uk) Pilton, Somerset (music, June 21–25, www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk) Portsoy, Aberdeenshire (boats, June 24–25, http://stbfportsoy.org) Tissington, Derbyshire (well dressing, May 25–31, http://welldressing.com) Trefriw, Conwy (walking, May 19–21, www.trefriwwalkingfestival.co.uk)