Helmdon www.helmdon.com

Congratulations to Helmdon, Northamptonshire! Here are some of the comments we received for this excellent site...

• A fantastic example of whole village co-operation
• A wealth of information and regularly updated. Fantastic site!
• Beautiful place and friendly people
• Fantastic site, great way to keep in touch with what is happening in the village and hearing from old friends
• Helmdon is our next door village; they keep inspiring us!
• HELMDON ROCKS!
• I recommended the site as an example for the village in which I live.
• Informative and brings the community together
• It is such a great site and has inspired me to be cool.
• Loved the church memorials recording
• Lovely village,very friendly people who care & this attitude is reflected in their website
• I knew nothing at all about Helmdon but thanks to this site I now know the village where my ancestors lived until 1901.
• The Helmdon site is full of historical information and they even went to the trouble of locating and copying a Will and other data and mailing it to me in Australia.
• Very informative, sensitive and good design
• Visited many times and it is lovely!
• Will always be the best village ever for me - where I spent my childhood from 1957 to 1968, with very happy memories.

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Your comments for Groby included...

• A truely Top Website. Portraying the charm and history of the lovely village. Simply the Best.
• A site full of both historic and up to the minute information for the village of Groby.
• Absolutely fabulous.One's mind boggles at the amount of planning and work this site must have taken.Well done!
• An excellent site. The community spirit is alive and kicking in Groby . We may not be a cosy village, we do sprawl a bit and have lots of communters but I feel this web site really depicts what we are
• Excellent - well done Mike.
• Fantastic website with follow through to links are great as well being in australia
• Fun site with lots of info and puzzles to keep you coming back.
• Great tool for use in school local history projects, and fun at xmas
• Groby's is the most fun to visit of any village site I've visited
• It gives us folks in the US a true flavor of life in the UK. Great Job!!
• Just completed the Groby Quiz and scored 40%. I give this site, though, 100%; most enjoyable and I now know a lot more about the village!
• Outstanding not only interesting and informative about the village itself but openly covers village issues, an absorbing site - well done
• Superb site, hours of innovative fun. Keep up the good work!
• This is one amazing website! It is without doubt the most enjoyable site I've come across, and believe me I've seen thousands. Well done!
• Very "appealing", draws you in, fascinating use of gadgets but manages to avoid being gimmicky. A model to all site builders.
• What a stunner, What a time consumer!!!

3rd Place was a draw...

All entrants should be justly proud of their achievements!
The standard of all sites was exceptionally high this year.

• Harberton: A brilliantly informative and lively website
• Harberton: It really is a beautiful village with a thriving and happy community offering a big welcome to all who visit
• Harberton: Quick to load, updated often, responsive webmaster.
• Harberton: The website is a great bonus to the village, providing reference and interest whilst being kept up to date as an information point.
• Kircubbin: a fantastic site, made me want to go and live there!
• Kircubbin: for such a small village a big web site
• Kircubbin: it is a totally breath taking website
• Kircubbin: Keeps us up to date from across the miles - great work.
• Laggan: A brilliant site and a great place to escape to from Birmingham
• Laggan: A very clear and informative and easy to use web site. Well done to all concerned.
• Laggan: Spent many happy weekends there in the 70's. Glorious scenery and lovely people. Now monarch of all it surveys.
• Laggan: The most friendliest and hospitable village we have ever had the privelige to stay at.
• LongClawson: Always excellent
• LongClawson: Very interactive - encourages viewer involvement.
• Lyneham: A credit to our district. well done!
• Lyneham: Fantastic site provided me with all I needed to know when I moved there last year
• Lyneham: Good site, local information, international quality
• Lyneham: Impressed by the high standard of all entries. I think Lyneham shines that little bit brighter!
• Lyneham: It has a rabbit on the front page, and I loiks rabbits oi does
• NewbigginByTheSea: A very good web Site,good coverage of the village.
• NewbigginByTheSea: Excellent site for a deserving Northumberland village
• NewbigginByTheSea: Thought i knew this place well but know it better now
• NewbigginByTheSea: Very informative web site. Easy to navigate.
• Pentyrch: A comprehensive and informative website ideally suited to a village community
• Pentyrch: A great website for such a small place!
• Pentyrch: I found the site very informative. As a committee member of the Welsh Interest Group in New Zealand I will be recomending it as a good alround site for genealogy research etc.
• Pentyrch: wonderful experience of online returning to 'home'
• Saltfleetby: This is a very user-friendly site (for someone like me that is new to the internet), with lots of interesting information about the village.
• Saltfleetby: Very very good and extremely informative. I recommed any one to view this site
• Tollerton: Brillianly crafted, informative and interesting
• Tollerton: Great Site. Keeps the community in touch and keeps in touch with the community
• Tollerton: Very informative, well managed and up-todate website. Brilliant!
• Tollerton: We just LOVE it !!!!!!!!!!!!! x x x x x x

Vote checking included validating a variety of details by hand afterwards. Thousands of votes were cast, hundreds were excluded (nice try guys!), and the winner won by a clear majority.

We'd like to thank everyone who took part, especially your kind comments: they have all been sent to the respective webmasters, after removing your personal details of couse.