Comberton is a super local site with plenty of information making it an essential guide for both locals and visitors alike. Well done Comberton - you have a web site to be proud of! Nearby The Giddings (Great Gidding, Little Gidding, and Steeple Gidding) has an excellent web site containing a wealth of useful information and a real community feel.

Willington Village, Bedfordshire, is a small but very ancient village, dating back well over 1,000 years to early Anglo Saxon Times. The village name is derived from its location amongst willow trees on the banks of the River Great Ouse. Willington is part of the Forest of Marston Vale. We very much liked this web site!

Petrockstowe, Devon, centres around St. Petroc's church, The Laurels inn, the chapel and village hall. There is a strong community spirit with many local clubs, societies and local events.

This site has a good selection of local input and some excellent photographs, although the background music suddenly blaring out almost lost Petrockstowe the award (if you're browsing from work, or late at night, you have been warned!). What really won us over was the good use of hyperlinks to other sections and other sites, embedded in the context of the text instead of more traditional plain lists.

Rushden is a tiny village of about 200 population located in North Hertfordshire. Many of the properties
date back to the 16th century and there are a few ghosts that wander around every so often. No shops
are left, but we still have a church and a pub, both of which are at the centre of the community

This is a well maintained and popular village web site with strong local support, and well deserving of this months award.

Stonham Aspal is a village in Suffolk in the eastern part of England.

This local community site is clean and clear with plenty of new and historic photographs. The quality and range of content on offer is a good example of what can be done with a village website - well done!

Denbury Village is situated in South Devon, England, between Totnes and Newton Abbot, about ten miles from Torquay. The village has beautiful views of Dartmoor and is overlooked by Denbury Down, site of an ancient Celtic Hillfort. About 300 households including outlying farms.

A friendly local site (we like these!) it seems to have its own wonderful personality, and features some rather interesting sections. For example, clicking on "the village" on the main page presents a street plan - but this is no ordinary map. Moving the mouse around you can discover clickable regions which do something we've always fancied doing on our own villages web site but never got around to it. Well done Denbury!

Harrietsham is a small village situated to the East of Maidstone, and spanning the A20 Ashford Road. The backdrop to Harrietsham is the North Downs, along which runs the Pilgrims Way, part of the pilgrimage route to Canterbury. The village dates back to prehistoric times, with evidence of a Roman settlement and a mention of the village and parish church in the Doomesday Book.

What drew our attention to this excellent local site was the "whats new" section and the success with involving other local groups with the web site. The calender on the events page was a very nice touch! Although the use of frames may be annoying to some (and font sizes were a bit awkward on our Netscape browser), the overall quality of the content won us over this month.

Llay is a small village on the outskirts of Wrexham, North Wales. An old colliery village with a lot of history. The village is surrounded by the countryside and views of Hope Mountain can be seen from the village. Nearby Wrexham is a great Town with a superb shopping centre. Chester is also close by and is an old Roman town with a lot of places of intrest to visit.

Quorn, or Quorndon, in Leicestershire, is surrounded by farmland, and the river Soar snakes through the southern end of the village. The Great Central railway regularly runs steam trains through Quorn on the way to Leicester or Loughborough.

This is an excellent example of a regularly updated web site run by various members of the local community. Clean and easy to navigate, the initial running costs are partially subsidised by the local Parish Council and ongoing support by the reselling of village e-mail addresses.

Long Melford, Suffolk, has been settled for many centuries. It can still be seen as a piece of medieval strip-development from the great green below the church for three miles southwards beside the river Stour.

Although frames based, care has also been taken to support browsers that do not support frames. This is particularily important for search engine listings! One of the larger villages on our database, Roger Kistruck has done well to retain that village atmosphere and presents a very good example of how to promote local businesses without becoming over commercialised.

The site is supported by the Long Melford Business Association, many of whose members advertise on the site and help make it possible for charitable organisations to get their space free.