Lancashire Best Kept Village Competition

Winners

This year's Lancashire Best Kept Village Competition has now come to an end. Over the spring and summer we looked forward to hearing from and assessing the village entries for 'Best Kept Village' and 'Outstanding Features' from across the county and to progressing this year's competition. The 2025 competition had 48 entries and 21 villages were put forward to second round judging ahead of the final round (10 villages, 2 from each category). Nearly 300 Outstanding Features were nominated across 16 categories. In total some 60 villages, hamlets and urban communities participated in the 2025 competition.

Winners of this year's competition were announced at Presentation Event at Eaves Hall on 13th October with final judging and the presentation of awards undertaken by David E Cam DL BA, Barrister, Under Sheriff of Lancashire. 2025 entrants can be found here.

Our Judges take great pleasure in seeing the hard work, endeavour and community spirit that Lancashire villages and their residents put into being involved in the competition. The process and independence of our judging ensures fairness, and it is great to see individual effort rewarded.

The competition celebrated its 60-year Diamond Jubilee in 2018 with some 67 Lancashire villages entering; there were 30 winners, runner-ups or those receiving highly commended in one or more award categories. The 2019 competition, following a review of the 'Constitution of the Competition' (updating, streamlining and simplifying all paperwork used by villages and judges), saw the introduction of 'Outstanding Features', a secondary competition replacing the 'Certificate of Merit' part of the Competition, in which villages entering the main competition are able to nominate up to 10 Outstanding Features of their village - one per class for judging.

After the enforced hiatus of the Covid-19 Lockdown resulting in the 2020 competition being cancelled, following a Committee meeting and review of the situation we could go ahead with the 2021 Lancashire Best Kept Village Competition (entrants).

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Lancashire Best Kept Village Competition 2025 villages Finalists:

Bretherton | Elswick | Grimsargh | New Longton | Newburgh | Weeton
Hurst Green | West Bradford | Inglewhite | Little Eccleston | Cummeragh | Whalley.

Results: Champion Villages 2025

Overall Champion Village: Bretherton | Runner-up: Elswick
Large Villages: New Longton | Runner-up: Grimsargh
Medium Villages: Newburgh | Runner-up: Weeton
Small Villages: Hurst Green | Runner-up: West Bradford
Hamlets: Inglewhite | Runner-up: Little Eccleston
Urban Community: Whalley | Runner-up: Cummeragh

Final judging by David Cam, Under Sheriff of the counties of Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside took place on 27th and 28th August. Winners announced at the Presentation Event at Eaves Hall, West Bradford on 13th October.

Full details and results of the 2025 Competition >>> HERE (Results) [PDF Download].

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Competition winners in 2024: Champion Village - Grindleton; Large Village - Longton; Medium Village - Waddington; Small Village - Brindle; Hamlet - Little Eccleston. 2024 Results (PDF Download).

Competition winners in 2023: Champion Village - Elswick; Large Village - Sabden; Medium Village - Town Green; Small Village - Grindleton; Hamlet - Little Eccleston. 2023 Results (PDF Download).

Competition winners in 2022: Champion Village - Bretherton; Large Village - Lower Adlington; Medium Village - Chipping; Small Village - Belmont; Hamlet - Little Eccleston. 2022 Results (PDF Download).

Competition winners in 2021: Champion Village - Blacko; Large Village - Halsall; Medium Village - Barton; Small Village - Whitechapel; Hamlets - Barley. 2021 Results (PDF Download).

The 2020 Competition was cancelled due to Covid and Lockdowns.

Our pre-Covid competition winners in 2019 were: Champion Village - Higham; Large Village - Freckleton; Medium Village - Mawdesley; Small Village - Bretherton; Hamlets - Wiswell. There were 15 'Outstanding Features' awards for features nominated by the villages themselves. 2019 Results (PDF Download).

The main winners in 2018 were: Champion Village - Elswick; Large Village - Preesall and Knott End; Medium Village - Wrea Green; Small Village - West Bradford; Hamlet - Roughlee.. 2018 Results (PDF Download).

2017 Results.