Strethall, in the north west of Essex, is the only parish in the county where all men who went to the Western Front and elsewhere during the First World War returned safely. Such places are known as "thankful villages".
This fact comes from a wide-ranging article, entitled 'World War One commemoration lasts four years', in 'The Month' (March 2014) which is the Chelmsford Diocese newspaper of the Church of England. Canon John D Brown, the chairman of the Churches Visitor and Tourism Association, encourages congregations to open their churches at advertised times so that relatives might view any war memorial standing therein. ... but don't go to Strethall for that purpose.
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