Stoke Hammond - Bucks - Pictorial Village Signs on Waymarking.com

The sign is the same both sides and depicts the Village Church of
St Luke and the famous 3 locks with the Public house in the background this is aptly named after the locks.

The term “Thankful Villages” was first used by the British writer and journalist Arthur Mee in his King's England, a guide to the counties of England in the 1930s. A Thankful Village was said to be one which lost no men in the Great War as all those who had left to serve 'King and Country' came home again. For instance, in Yorkshire East Riding he writes about Catwick, "Thirty men went from Catwick to the Great War and thirty came back, though one left an arm behind." Incredibly, Arkholme in Lancashire saw 59 of their sons go to war and all returned. It was also suggested that such villages had no war memorials, although some had monuments, usually in the church, in gratitude for their good fortune.

Among the 16,000 villages in England, Arthur Mee estimated that there were at most 32 Thankful Villages, although he could only positively identify 24.

More recent and ongoing research by Norman Thorpe and Tom Morgan, has identified 41 parishes throughout England and Wales from which all soldiers returned.

The Disney family, apparently related to the illustrator Walt Disney, was also at one time an influential family in the parish.

Occasion Commemorated: This village is a Thankful Village Location: Village green Plaque: yes Construction Material: Composite sign on a wooden pole with brick plinth Artist: not listed Web Address: [Web Link] Sign Date: Not listed

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