{"id":39,"date":"2012-10-20T18:42:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T18:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hilpertonparishcouncil.org.uk\/?p=39"},"modified":"2013-01-18T07:27:29","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T07:27:29","slug":"best-kept-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hilpertonparishcouncil.org.uk\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Hilperton voted Best Kept Large Village 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hilperton now has the report of the judges. Apart from Hilperton, the other large villages in the Wiltshire round were :-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Box (second)<\/li>\n<li>Bowerhill (equal third)<\/li>\n<li>Burbage (equal third)<\/li>\n<li>Laverstock (fifth).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For Hilperton, the judges (Steve Russell and Air Cdre Nigel Williams) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hilpertonparishcouncil.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/cpre.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-273\" title=\"Best Kept Large Village\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hilpertonparishcouncil.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/cpre.jpg\" alt=\"CPRE sign\" width=\"141\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a>commented &#8216;What a wonderful village!\u00a0 A church with well maintained borders and churchyard.\u00a0 Families picnicking at the playing field, the best allotment site the judges had ever seen.\u00a0 The school was neat and tidy; footpaths were well maintained and public open spaces and residential gardens were very well kept.\u00a0 Despite a busy road through the village, litter was minimal.\u00a0 Wonderful facilities all well cared for and well used &#8211; a real community village&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>What more needs to be said?\u00a0 Other, of course, than a big &#8216;Thank You&#8217; to all the residents that take a pride in our village and keep it looking so\u00a0 great.<\/p>\n<p>Ernie Clark<br \/>\nSeptember 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hilperton now has the report of the judges. Apart from Hilperton, the other large villages in the Wiltshire round were :- Box (second) Bowerhill (equal third) Burbage (equal third) Laverstock (fifth). For Hilperton, the judges (Steve Russell and Air Cdre Nigel Williams) commented &#8216;What a wonderful village!\u00a0 A church with well maintained borders and churchyard.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hilpertonparishcouncil.org.uk\/?p=39\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hilperton voted Best Kept Large Village 2012<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hilpertonparishcouncil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hilpertonparishcouncil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hilpertonparishcouncil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hilpertonparishcouncil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hilpertonparishcouncil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.hilpertonparishcouncil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295,"href":"http:\/\/www.hilpertonparishcouncil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hilpertonparishcouncil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hilpertonparishcouncil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hilpertonparishcouncil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}