Thankful Villages

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 war because all those who left to serve came home again.

In an October 2013 update,[3] researchers identified 53 civil parishes in England and Wales from which all serving personnel returned.

[4] Fourteen of the English and Welsh villages are considered "doubly thankful", in that they also lost no service personnel during World War II.

Tavernspite, in Pembrokeshire, has been mooted as a fourth doubly thankful village in Wales.

[9][10] Between 2016 and 2018, singer-songwriter Darren Hayman released a trilogy of albums inspired by and written in-situ at the Thankful Villages.