Austrey
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HOME PAGE Welcome to the Austrey village Web site A beautiful, lively village in the northernmost point of Warwickshire. UK Winner of the Calor Warwickshire Village of The Year 2008 A population of 1000 with around 400 houses, one pub, one shop, one school and two churches. Situated between Birmingham And Nottingham, just off the M42 [junction 11]. The nearest major town is Tamworth. You will see the village and the church spire from the motorway one mile south of Junction 11 looking east. For maps of the area click here to go to information. This site was last updated
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News of the Parish Council. The PC have their own web-site [Austrey.com is the Austrey villagers site]. Latest News Austrey win the Calor Warwickshire Village of The Year 2008 see the Press Release below.
Warwickshire’s Calor Village of the Year 2008 revealed
The winning villages in the Warwickshire’s Calor Village of the Year competition 2008 have been revealed. The results were announced and prizes presented at a celebratory awards event which took place recently at Offchurch Village Hall. Out of an impressive 19 entries, the village of Austrey is the overall winner of the competition, scooping the prestigious title of Warwickshire’s Calor Village of the Year 2008.
The full list of results is as follows –
Category Winners People Category: Offchurch Communication Category: Ufton Environment Category: Austrey Business Category: Long Compton
Size Winners Large Village Category: Wolvey Medium-sized Village Category: Austrey Small Village Category: Warmington
Overall Austrey is Warwickshire’s Calor Village of the Year 2008
The competition is organised by the Warwickshire Rural Community Council (WRCC), with sponsorship provided by Calor, in association with the Courier Series of newspapers.
Ariadne Uslu, the Competitions Organiser commented: “We had nineteen entries for the competition this year. A shortlist of eight excellent entries was drawn up, which included: Dunchurch and Wolvey in the large village category; Austrey and Long Compton in the medium-sized village category; and Offchurch, Radway, Ufton and Warmington in the small village category.
“The results clearly demonstrate that it is not necessary to be a large village with generous resources available to do well in this competition. What the judges are looking for is well-balanced, pro-active, caring village communities, which have made the best of local opportunities to maintain and enhance the quality of life for all inhabitants, irrespective of the size of the village.”
Competition judges added: “Austrey gave us an excellent demonstration of concerted community effort in all areas. The invaluable contribution made by the Austrey Community Group is to be commended”.
As Warwickshire’s Calor Village of the Year 2008, Austrey now has the added honour of representing the county in the prestigious Calor Village of the Year for England Competition 2008/9. This will give villagers the opportunity of gaining recognition at national level as well as a share of a prize fund totalling more than £40,000.
Ariadne Uslu concluded: “We wish Austrey the best of luck in the next stage of the competition. They’re a great community and we’re sure they’ll do really well.”
Further information regarding the county competition is available from Ariadne Uslu by telephone on 02476 217390 or by email at ariadneu@wrccrural.org.uk.
To register for a village mailing list [newsletters etc. on e-mail] then just reply to mail@austrey.com with 'list' as the title.
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