The Times Green Spaces Winners are...

The winners of the inaugural Times Green Spaces Awards were announced last night at an Awards' ceremony hosted at One Aldwych, London:

Best place to stay (Britain):Trelowarren, Cornwall 

Best place to stay (Europe): Finca La Herradura, Orgiva, Spain 

Best place to stay (Worldwide):Village Ways, Himalayas, India 

Best project (Britain): Centre for Alternative Technology, Powys, Wales 

Best open space (Britain):Thames Barrier Park, London

Best open space (Europe): Turtle beach, Dalyan, Turkey.

Village Ways, Binsar Wildlife Sanctuary, India

won the award for 'Best Place to Stay' (Worldwide)

The winners were selected from a shortlist of 24, which were each inspected. 

The full list of finalists, winners - and their nominees, is on Timesonline, including the judge's crib sheets on the finalists. There will also be full coverage of the awards in this Saturday's Times newspaper.

Some 200 nominations for the awards were received from Times' readers.

The judges were:

Kathleen Wyatt, Travel Editor, The Times

Kate Quill (The Times Assistant Travel Editor)

Steve Keenan (The Times Online Travel Editor)

Anna Shepherd (The Times Eco Worrier)

Toby Sawday (business development and sustainability manager for Sawday's Publishing)

Richard Hammond (founder of greentraveller.co.uk)