FabSwingers.com forum: when is a village not a village??

By *ittle_brat_evie!! OP Woman
over a year ago

evesham

What makes a village a village to you?? Just a quick forum straw poll

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Must have a duck pond for me

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

It should have a village hall not a town hall and I like them to be surrounded by fields so they are separate from other places.

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By *inky BunnyMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

when is a village not a village?

When it's lost its one idiot; and gained a multitude of them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The people.

( you have the leather clad biker

( the traffic cop

( the red Indian

( and the builder

;) xxx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

community, having the 'village hall' play park and a bowling green

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lots of houses together ..with a bus stop .. I live on the out side of a village .

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

It can also only have 1 gay person

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When the inhabbitants stop being related

And a village hall is a must and a little post office that also doubles up as the only shop.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The people.

( you have the leather clad biker

( the traffic cop

( the red Indian

( and the builder

;) xxx"

Don't forget the solider

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

It should have a separate community - I live in a village that Sheffield has grown up to meet. We have a choir a brass band a library a village hall with an am dram society and we have an annual fete.

We are also (unlike a lot of villages) lucky enough to have a library, a doctor's surgery, a chemists, a hardware shop, a hairdresser, a post office, a green grocers and a couple of other shops.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We have it all apart from the duck pond..but have lovely river full of swans and ducks..oh and an overpriced Co-op!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A village has a idiot a town large numbers and upmarket massage parlours.

MrJD

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Village I live in has a duck pond ( ducks go missing at times ) a community hall no post office a shop that sells stamps and is surrounded by woods

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

And a war memorial and a postbox with VR on it for Victoria Regina, Queen Victoria.

A thatched cottage....and a scary legend about the graveyard.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"We have it all apart from the duck pond..but have lovely river full of swans and ducks..oh and an overpriced Co-op!

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there's over priced co-op in most towns and villages

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"When the inhabbitants stop being related

And a village hall is a must and a little post office that also doubles up as the only shop."

thats what i think -

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

A village Green and Village people...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The people.

( you have the leather clad biker

( the traffic cop

( the red Indian

( and the builder

;) xxx

Don't forget the solider"

Sailer

how could I forget the sailer xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There's one road through our village and if you leave it's 6 miles one way and 9 miles the other way to the nearest towns, although there are other little hamlets on the way.

We've got a shop/post office, petrol station, 1 pub and 1 working mans club, a chip shop, a hairdresser and a farm shop. We are surrounded by fields and it's a really lovely place to live

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I lived in a village, had a village hall, village church, duck pond, cricket field, little school, but not a single shop, post office/living room or a pub ???

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"There's one road through our village and if you leave it's 6 miles one way and 9 miles the other way to the nearest towns, although there are other little hamlets on the way.

We've got a shop/post office, petrol station, 1 pub and 1 working mans club, a chip shop, a hairdresser and a farm shop. We are surrounded by fields and it's a really lovely place to live

forgot the village hall, bowling green, football pitch, kiddies playground, infants school, 2 bus stops, 2 phone boxes, and a church

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"There's one road through our village and if you leave it's 6 miles one way and 9 miles the other way to the nearest towns, although there are other little hamlets on the way.

We've got a shop/post office, petrol station, 1 pub and 1 working mans club, a chip shop, a hairdresser and a farm shop. We are surrounded by fields and it's a really lovely place to live

Sounds lovely, any chance you might be looking for a lodger!!!! Heh heh

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"There's one road through our village and if you leave it's 6 miles one way and 9 miles the other way to the nearest towns, although there are other little hamlets on the way.

We've got a shop/post office, petrol station, 1 pub and 1 working mans club, a chip shop, a hairdresser and a farm shop. We are surrounded by fields and it's a really lovely place to live

That's because you live in Cornwall, Mr has two sisters there, one in Camborne and one in Truro...it is genuinely beautiful in most places. See you dreckly.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"There's one road through our village and if you leave it's 6 miles one way and 9 miles the other way to the nearest towns, although there are other little hamlets on the way.

We've got a shop/post office, petrol station, 1 pub and 1 working mans club, a chip shop, a hairdresser and a farm shop. We are surrounded by fields and it's a really lovely place to live

Sounds lovely, any chance you might be looking for a lodger!!!! Heh heh

Well, our boys have moved out, so there's only Kate, me and our dog and three spare rooms

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When it doesn't have a Tesco's

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By *emon tart Double creamCouple
over a year ago

Leeds

We've got a square where the weekly market is.... it has a yearly show where everyone enters competitions like best sheep and ferret racing ...proper real ale pubs and small river runs through it and they used to film parts of Emmerdale here....

Being from a big city it was a huge culture shock but I wouldn't want to move away now...

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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

When it has a 'local shop for local people'.

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

No more than one church of any faith.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Plenty of idiots to fill it .... haa

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By *ursevampsWoman
over a year ago

bucks

i believe a village is deemed as a shop a church and a post office one pub and possibley school pther then that it a rurl town

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Has to have a fat tidy guy dressed in Latex.

Only the one mind

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By *igSuki81Man
over a year ago

Retirement Village

"When the inhabbitants stop being related

And a village hall is a must and a little post office that also doubles up as the only shop."

i use to live in a village & wasn't related to anyone. i couldn't say i was the only gay in the village as i'm not gay but i was the only asian in the village which was awesome especially when an lovely old lass thought i'd been on holiday and got a tan

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By *igSuki81Man
over a year ago

Retirement Village

"i believe a village is deemed as a shop a church and a post office one pub and possibley school pther then that it a rurl town

yep in agreement with this post

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By *ittle_brat_evie!! OP Woman
over a year ago

evesham

"i believe a village is deemed as a shop a church and a post office one pub and possibley school pther then that it a rurl town

so it shouldnt have an airport, a car sales place for every type of car going, 50 shops etc???

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No body's mentioned the townies that colonise some lovely villages, like here in Somerset, saying they love village life, but then complaining about the cows, the church bells, the cockerel and there being no decent tapenade available in the village shop.

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By *ittle_brat_evie!! OP Woman
over a year ago

evesham

The main road in my village starts and ends with a pub

we have a shop, a farm shop and a post office and that's it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I live in a village with:

An airport

Motor park

Detention centre for illegal immigrants

7 pubs

2 chip shops

2 Indian restaurants

1 chinese restaurant

2 Chinese take aways

2 post offices

3 pharmacy's

A Sainsburys

A Tesco

3 co ops

3 book makers

A village hall

5 banks

Greggs

Costa coffee

2 butchers

A market.

Yes it is a village!

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By *ittle_brat_evie!! OP Woman
over a year ago

evesham

ITS NOT A VILLAGE!!!!!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"ITS NOT A VILLAGE!!!!!!!

It is! Its a big village

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"No body's mentioned the townies that colonise some lovely villages, like here in Somerset, saying they love village life, but then complaining about the cows, the church bells, the cockerel and there being no decent tapenade available in the village shop.

I whole heartedly agree with this they move into the country then complain about all the country smells and noises, also I think to classify as a village half the population should be related in some way as it is I our village and your still classed as an outsider even after living there for 15 years lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I live in a village with:

An airport

Motor park

Detention centre for illegal immigrants

7 pubs

2 chip shops

2 Indian restaurants

1 chinese restaurant

2 Chinese take aways

2 post offices

3 pharmacy's

A Sainsburys

A Tesco

3 co ops

3 book makers

A village hall

5 banks

Greggs

Costa coffee

2 butchers

A market.

Yes it is a village!

Heathrow?

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

Like the people who moved into Churchwardens cottage in the village i grew up in then started a petition to get the bells silenced!

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

It's a village if you've lived there for 40 years and you're still not classed as a 'local'...or it is if it's the one I grew up in, where my parents still live !

Village Hall

One pub

One tiny post office and a primary school, which bizarrely, still has an outdoor (unheated) swimming pool !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"What makes a village a village to you?? Just a quick forum straw poll

- A pub with no opening hours (knock on the door)

- That you say hello to people in the road

- A Parish Council that writes official letters to you if your flowers become overgrown

- People you've never met can tell you all about yourself

and lots of straw poles

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Like the people who moved into Churchwardens cottage in the village i grew up in then started a petition to get the bells silenced!

Yeah people like that really get my goat they know when they move in that they are by the church so what do he expect

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I live in a village with:

An airport

Motor park

Detention centre for illegal immigrants

7 pubs

2 chip shops

2 Indian restaurants

1 chinese restaurant

2 Chinese take aways

2 post offices

3 pharmacy's

A Sainsburys

A Tesco

3 co ops

3 book makers

A village hall

5 banks

Greggs

Costa coffee

2 butchers

A market.

Yes it is a village!

Heathrow?"

No. Its the largest village in England.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I live in a village with:

An airport

Motor park

Detention centre for illegal immigrants

7 pubs

2 chip shops

2 Indian restaurants

1 chinese restaurant

2 Chinese take aways

2 post offices

3 pharmacy's

A Sainsburys

A Tesco

3 co ops

3 book makers

A village hall

5 banks

Greggs

Costa coffee

2 butchers

A market.

Yes it is a village!

Heathrow?

No. Its the largest village in England. "

Kidlington?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I live in a village with:

An airport

Motor park

Detention centre for illegal immigrants

7 pubs

2 chip shops

2 Indian restaurants

1 chinese restaurant

2 Chinese take aways

2 post offices

3 pharmacy's

A Sainsburys

A Tesco

3 co ops

3 book makers

A village hall

5 banks

Greggs

Costa coffee

2 butchers

A market.

Yes it is a village!

Heathrow?

No. Its the largest village in England.

Kidlington?"

Yes

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

must have a village gossip

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By *pecifically1Woman
over a year ago

Hull

according to the Highways agency (don;t ask how I know) it is to do with the amount of houses with frontage onto the main street/road.....

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

and a house where a creepy old woman lives with 14 cats that all the kids avoid because they think she is a witch

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By *ickndomCouple
over a year ago

Wimborne

"Lots of houses together ..with a bus stop .. I live on the out side of a village ."

Yes think i've seen your tent, sorry teepee, nice field btw xx

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By *ickndomCouple
over a year ago

Wimborne

"i believe a village is deemed as a shop a church and a post office one pub and possibley school pther then that it a rurl town

so it shouldnt have an airport, a car sales place for every type of car going, 50 shops etc???

Donnington has an airport, race track, huge market and an industrial estate and thats a village

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By *ittle_brat_evie!! OP Woman
over a year ago

evesham

"I live in a village with:

An airport

Motor park

Detention centre for illegal immigrants

7 pubs

2 chip shops

2 Indian restaurants

1 chinese restaurant

2 Chinese take aways

2 post offices

3 pharmacy's

A Sainsburys

A Tesco

3 co ops

3 book makers

A village hall

5 banks

Greggs

Costa coffee

2 butchers

A market.

Yes it is a village!

Heathrow?

No. Its the largest village in England.

Kidlington?"

ITS NOT A VILLAGE!!!!!

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

"and a house where a creepy old woman lives with 14 cats that all the kids avoid because they think she is a witch"

I've only got two but the rest is accurate

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