BEST OVERALL ENTRY AND WINNER OF THE
‘ANGLIA IN BLOOM’ TROPHY 2015
HALSTEAD​
CATEGORY ENTRANTS & AWARDS
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VILLAGES (301 - 2,500 RESIDENTS)
Winner and Gold Award: FILBY
Gold Award - FORDHAM
Silver Gilt Awards: BLUNDESTON, PARSON DROVE
SMALL TOWN (2,501 - 6,000 RESIDENTS)
Winner and Gold Award: HALESWORTH
Silver Gilt Awards: FRINTON ON SEA, REDBOURNE, SOUTH WOOTTON
Silver Award: COGGESHALL
TOWN (6,001 - 12,000 RESIDENTS)
Winner and Gold Award: HALSTEAD
Gold Award: MALDON, DOWNHAM MARKET
Silver Gilt Awards: CHATTERIS, SWAFFAM, WHITTLESEY
LARGE TOWN (12,001 - 35,000 RESIDENTS)
Winner and Gold Award: WISBECH
Gold Award: BURY St. EDMUNDS, DUNSTABLE
Silver Gilt Awards: MARCH, RAYLEIGH, ST. IVES, WARE
Silver Award: HUNTINGDON
CITY (35,001 - 200,000 RESIDENTS)
Winner and Gold Award: NORWICH
Gold Award: COLCHESTER
Silver Gilt Award: LEIGHTON LINSLADE
URBAN COMMUNITY
Winner and Silver Gilt Award MANCROFT WARD (NORWICH)
Silver Gilt Awards: SEWELL WARD (NORWICH), WATERLEES (WISBECH)
Silver Awards: MOOR (HUNTINGDON)
COASTAL ( UP TO 35,000 RESIDENTS)
Winner and Gold Award: HUNSTANTON
Gold Awards: GREAT YARMOUTH, HEACHAM, LOWESTOFT
PARKS (Large Over 10 Acres)
Winner and Gold Award: NOWTON PARK - BURY ST. EDMUNDS
Gold Awards: ABBEY GARDENS - BURY ST. EDMUNDS, CASTLE PARK - COLCHESTER, HIGH WOODS COUNTRY PARK - COLCHESTER
Silver Gilt Awards: WEST END PARK - MARCH, WISBECH PARK
PARKS (Medium 5 to 10 Acres)
Winner and Gold Award: St. PETERS CHURCH GARDENS - WISBECH
Silver Gilt Awards: HALSTEAD PARK, KING GEORGE V PLYING FIELD RAYLEIGH
PARKS (Small under 5 Acres)
Winner and Gold Award: KENSINGTON GARDENS - LOWESTOFT
Silver Gilt Award: ST. GEORGES PARK - GREAT YARMOUTH
Silver Award: PRIORY GARDENS - GORLESTON
CEMETERIES
Winner and Gold Award: THE GENERAL CEMETERY - WISBECH
Silver Gilt Awards: VANDYKE CEMETERY - LEIGHTON LINSLADE, WHITTLESEY CEMETERY, GARDEN OF REST - WHITTLESEY
Silver Awards: NEW ROAD CEMETERY - CHATTERIS, EASTWOOD CEMETERY - MARCH, EARLHAM CEMETERY - NORWICH, HALESWORTH CLOSED CEMETERY, BROAD LEAS CEMETERY - ST. IVES, WARE CEMETERY, MOUNT PLEASANT CEMETERY - WISBECH
Bronze Awards: CHURCHSIDE CEMETERY - DOWNHAM MARKET, KINGS WALK CEMETERY - DOWNHAM MARKET
CHURCHYARDS
Winner and Gold Award: HOLY TRINITY CHURCHYARD - RAYLEIGH
Gold Award: ST. STEPHENS CHURCHYARD - NORWICH
Silver Gilt Awards: ST. PETERS CHURCHYARD - CHATTERIS, ST. NICHOLAS CHURCHYARD - GREAT YARMOUTH
Silver Awards: OLD PARISH CHURCHYARD - FRINTON-ON-SEA, ST. MARYS CHURCHYARD - ST. NEOTS, ALL SAINTS CHURCHYARD - FORDHAM
CREMATORIUMS
Winner and Gold Award: WEELEY CREMATORIUM
Gold Award: FENLAND CREMATORIUM
Silver Gilt Award: CEMETERY and CREMATORIUM - COLCHESTER
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SPECIAL AWARDS
BEST NEW ENTRY --- HIGH WOODS COUNTRY PARK - COLCHESTER
MOST CONSISTENTLY IMPROVED --- MALDON
Biodiversity Award
Nominations:
Bourne Mill - Colchester.
Hinchingbrooke Country Park
Wild Flower Strip and Pond - South Wootton.
Lattersley Nature Reserve - Whittlesey.
Winner = Earlham Cemetery - Norwich
Best Community Project
Nominations:
Incredible Edibles, Katherine Drive - Dunstable.
Town Centre - Halesworth.
Silver Road Community Centre - Sewell Ward, Norwich.
Garden of Rest - Whittlesey.
Winner = The Certificate of Merit Scheme - Bury St. Edmunds
Best Conservation Project
Nominations:
General Cemetery - Chatteris.
Bonds Meadow - Lowestoft.
Serles Leisure Park - Hunstanton.
Holt island - St. Ives.
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Winner = High Woods - Colchester
Best Drought /Sustainable Garden
Nominations:
St. Edmunds Roundabout - Bury St. Edmunds.
Friends of The Library - Chatteris.
The Cottage Garden - Leighton Linslade.
Marsh - Norwich.
Winner = Castle Park Drought Garden - Colchester
Environmental Quality Award
Nominations
Chatteris.
Maldon.
Leighton Linslade.
Norwich.
Winner = Heacham
Grow Your Own Award
Nominations:
Neale-Wade Academy - March.
Northfield Allotments - Hunstanton.
Stephen Bennett's Allotment - Leighton Linslade.
Mr. Moore Allotment - Rayleigh.
Winner = Edith Cavell Academy and Nursery - Norwich
Best Individual/Community Floral Display
Nominations:
The Adam and Eve Public House - Norwich.
Suffield Court - Swaffam.
The Pound and Diamond Jubilee Beds - Whittlesey.
Bowls Club - Ware.
Winner = Leroy and Charles Fox, Charles Smith House - Colchester
Best Industrial/Commercial Area
Nominations:
Spectra Packaging - Halesworth.
The Old Railway Station - Heacham
Travis Perkins Yard - Ware.
Elgoods Brewery - Wisbech.
Winner = Merrivale Model Village - Great Yarmouth
Best Local Authority Floral Display
Nominations:
Castle Park - Colchester.
Corn Drill Display - Huntingdon.
Trinity Church Garden of Rest - March.
Barrier Basket Displays - Norwich.
Joint Winners
Abbey Gardens - Bury St. Edmunds and Esplanade Gardens - Hunstanton
Best Public Open Space
Nominations:
Nowton Park - Bury St. Edmunds.
Parson's Close Park - Leighton Linslade.
Kensington Gardens - Lowestoft.
West End Park - March.
Winner = Castle Park - Colchester
Best Garden for Special Needs
Nominations:
High Woods - Colchester.
Boston Square - Hunstanton.
Holt Island - St. Ives.
Oasis Communal Garden and Orchard - Waterlees.
Winner = Stepping Stones - Norwich
Best Young Persons Project (12 to 18 years of age)
Community Orchard - Hunstanton.
Plume School Vegetable Garden - Maldon.
St. Lukes School - Redbourne.
Winner = Royal British Legion Youth Members - Chatteris
Best Young Peoples Project ( Aged 12 years and under)
Nominations:
Filby Pre and Primary School.
Weatherfields Academy - Dunstable.
Wentworth Primary School - Maldon.
Alderman Payne School - Parson Drove.
Winner = South Wooten Junior School
The Mike Ames Award
Nominations:
John Crawley - Stevenage.
Colin Drew - Kings Lynn.
George Ishmael - Norwich.
Bob Hardwick - Ipswich.
Irene Turrell - Lowestoft.
Winner = Sue Hacon - Great Yarmouth
End of World War 2 Commemoration Award
Nominations:
Seed Tray Competition - Downham Market School.
VE Flower Bed Ponders Road - Fordham.
Fishermans Hospital - Great Yarmouth.
Heacham Remembers.
Mentmore Memorial Garden - Leighton Linslade.
Wisbech and Fenland Museum Garden - Wisbech
Winner = Loom Garden - Halstead Hospital