Since 1997, Chorleywood has been twinned with Dardilly, a town/large village located on the edge of the countryside, about 5 miles to the north west of Lyon in France, just south of the famous Beaujolais wine-growing area.
The Twinning Association exists to encourage and organise links between Chorleywood and Dardilly. It has operated without any regular external funding so its costs have been covered by membership subscriptions and fund-raising events such as quizzes and gastronomic evenings.
The Association’s main activity is to arrange exchange visits in which groups of families, couples and individuals from Chorleywood visit Dardilly, and vice versa. Visitors stay with local families in the host town and efforts are made to ensure that host families and their guests are likely to have something in common, taking into account ages of children, profession, interests, etc.
It is not necessary to both host, and visit; in both towns there are people who are not in a position to do both, but they still enjoy participating in one or the other, or just in the local social activities or in the Conversation Groups.
There have also been exchanges between choirs from the two towns.
Dardilly
Dardilly is a town with some similarities to Chorleywood. Largely residential, it is in pleasant rolling farmland about 5 miles to the north-west of the city of Lyon. The Beaujolais wine growing area is immediately to the north, whilst the French Alps are 60-70 miles to the east. There are two churches at opposite ends of the town around which are grouped pleasant local shops, restaurants and, on Fridays, a market.
Lyon
Lyon is France’s second city. Located at the junction of two great rivers, the Rhone and the Saone, it has been a busy commercial centre since before the Romans arrived. Today it is a buzzing university city with a wide range of tourist, cultural and entertainment activities to offer. It is also generally considered to be the gastronomic capital of France.
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