Whitwell has the unusual boast of being able to claim that it is officially twinned with the French Capital, Paris.
As the story goes, a local councillor wrote to the Mayors office in Paris saying that Whitwell would like to twin with them, adding that if they hadn't heard back from them in a certain period of time the village would assume that this was agreeable!
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