Best kept village 2025

Derry Hill and Studley is entering the Wiltshire Best Kept Village Competition in 2025.
 

We will be scored on the following areas:

• Hedges, trees, walls, fences, banks, roadside verges.
• Residential gardens and outbuildings, allotments.
• Public playing fields (including club houses or pavilions).
• Village greens, public open spaces.
• Footpaths and rights of way, ponds and streams.
• Village halls, church halls, Scout and Guide halls, and other community buildings.
• School surrounds and playing fields.
• Exterior of church and surrounds, including burial-grounds separate burial-grounds or memorial gardens, war memorials.
• Shops, offices, workshops, public houses, garages, car sales establishments.
• Bus shelters and telephone kiosks.
• Public notice-boards, upkeep and currency.
• In date advertising displays and their restraint, absence of fly-posting, litter and dog poo.
• Community Spirit and website.
• Appearance of conservation or wildlife areas.