Parks · South West England
Britain's most beautiful village greens
Cricket pitches under thatched cottages.
The village green is a quintessentially English institution — a publicly-owned common at the heart of a village, often with a cricket pitch and a pub on each corner. Notable examples: Tarrant Hinton (Dorset), Castle Combe (Wiltshire), Long Melford (Suffolk), and Finchingfield in Essex — repeatedly voted England's prettiest village.
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