The 'Doubly Thankful' Villages in The UK: Flixborough.

The villages are: Herodsfoot in Cornwall, Langton Herring in Dorset, Upper Slaughter in Gloucestershire, High Toynton in Lincolnshire, South Elmham St Michael in Suffolk, Woolley in Somerset, Catwick in Yorkshire, Middleton-on-the-Hill in Herefordshire, Nether Kellet in Lancashire, Flixborough in Lincolnshire, Herbrandston in Pembrokeshire and Stocklinch in Somerset.

I know Flixborough very well indeed. The village was mightily blessed throughout both World Wars as every single serviceman returned home. Amazing.

It was rather less blessed in June 1974 when the NYPRO disaster saw an explosion nearby which: wrecked the local chemical plant; destroyed local houses; caused my parents - living more than a mile and a half from the disaster to see the roof of their house destroyed - and it killed 28. I knew several of the deceased.