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Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 1,816 Send Message	Quoy	Report	7 Nov 2011 20:13
	This was a "well I never Knew that" moment Thankful Villages (also known as Blessed Villages[1]) are settlements in both England and Wales from which all their then members of the armed forces survived World War I. The term Thankful Village was popularised by the writer Arthur Mee in the 1930s. In Enchanted Land (1936), the introductory volume to The King’s England series of guides, he wrote that a Thankful Village was one which had lost no men in the Great War because all those who left to serve came home again. Researchers have identified 52 Civil parishes in England and Wales from which all soldiers returned. see the list here http://www.hellfirecorner.co.uk/thankful.htm
Member Since: February 2004 Posts: 814 Send Message	Netty	Report	7 Nov 2011 23:32
	Thank you for the link Quoy, most interesting.
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 26,112 Send Message	Gwyn in Kent	Report	8 Nov 2011 20:26
	Very interesting. I had never heard of that term. Gwyn
Member Since: February 2005 Posts: 13,200 Send Message	Annx	Report	8 Nov 2011 23:00
	Well, I never knew that......thanks for putting it on.
	Researching: Staffordshire, Warwickshire