Blessed Villages

A Blessed or a Thankful Village was one which had lost no men in the Great War - all those who left to serve, returned.  This term was coined by Arthur Mee in the first volume of The King’s England series of guides “Enchanted Land” written in 1936. Arthur Mee identified 32 villages in England and Wales from which all soldiers returned. 
In France, Thierville was the only village with no men lost in WW1.
In a 2010 update, researchers identified 52 civil parishes in England and Wales. There are no settlements in Scotland or Northern Ireland that did not lose a member of the community in WW1.  14 of the English and Welsh villages are considered "doubly thankful", in that they also lost no service personnel during WW2. These are marked with a * in the list below.

Buckinghamshire       
Cardiganshire             
Cornwall                     
Cumberland               
Derbyshire                 
Dorset                                    
Durham                      
Essex                         
Glamorgan                 
Gloucestershire          
Gloucestershire
Herefordshire             
Herefordshire Hertfordshire              
Kent                            
Lancashire                 
Leicestershire             
Lincolnshire 
Lincolnshire                
Northamptonshire      
Northumberland         
Nottinghamshire 
Nottinghamshire         
Pembrokeshire          
Rutland
Shropshire
Somerset
Somerset
Somerset
Suffolk
Sussex
Sussex
Yorkshire
Yorkshire

Stoke Hammond      
Llanfihangel y Creuddyn      
Herodsfoot *          
Ousby              
Bradbourne                               
Langton Herring *            
Hunstanworth                       
Strethall           
Colwinston    
Coln Rogers, Little Sodbury,
Upper Slaughter *  
Knill, Middleton on the Hill * and
Pipe Aston *      
Puttenham                   
Knowlton          
Arkholme *, Nether Kellet *
Saxby and East Norton             
Bigby, Flixborough *,
High Toynton * and Minting
East Carlton and Woodend 
Meldon       
Cromwell, Maplebeck,
Wigsley and Wysall     
Herbrandston *                     
Teigh
Harley                
Aisholt, Chantry, Chelwood,
Holywell Lake, Rodney Stoke, Shapwick, Stocklinch *,
Tellisford and Woolley *                   
Culpho and South Elmham St. Michael *
East Wittering
Catwick *, Cundall, Helperthorpe,
Norton-le-Clay and Scruton

Plaque in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Teigh Rutland
THIS TABLET IS ERECTED TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN HUMBLE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF HIS MERCIES IN PRESERVING THE LIVES OF THE ELEVEN MEN AND TWO WOMEN RESIDENTS OF TEIGH WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR OF 1914-1918
Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD