Fact35: What are Thankful Villages and how many ww1 Thankful Villages are there?

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Fact 35: What are Thankful Villages and how many ww1 Thankful Villages are there?

Thankful Villages are towns and villages in England and Wales where all their members of the armed forces survived World War I.
 
In England, the amount of thankful villages for ww1 according to the Historic UK website "Arthur Henry Mee estimated that there were at most 32 Thankful Villages," 
There are only 3 Thankful Villages in Wales.

I have done the maths and worked out that there were 15965 villages who lost people across England and Wales and only 35 thankful villages in total, there are 16000 villages in total in England and Wales.







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