When I lived in the UK in the early 80’s, I had the pleasure of living in a small village near Maidstone, Kent, called Platt’s Heath. Quite a different way of life, each village has a real identity. Various members of my wife’s family live in small villages and hamlets in the northeast of England, so I’ve had occasion to sample the village life there as well. Up until recently, I was a fully paid member of the Seghill Workingmen’s Club in Seghill, Northumberland, near Newcastle upon Tyne.
Simon Warrick has built a really neat website at villages.co.uk where villages can register their websites and become part of a larger village life community.
What a great place to go to take a virtual trip through the countryside and plan what would surely be a memorable holiday.
I became aware of the site because Simon uses my JSRS library to fill dropdown lists from the server without refreshing the page.