Cowbridge's Old Hall Gardens have been recognised in this year's Green Flag Awards.

The gardens were given the Community Award, which is granted to parks and green spaces managed by volunteers that set the benchmark for exceptionally maintained areas.

The Old Hall Gardens are

one of 15 locations in the Vale of Glamorgan that earned this award.

Criteria for winning the award includes being "a welcoming place", "healthy, safe and secure", and "well-maintained and clean".

Judges also look at environmental management, biodiversity, landscape and heritage, community involvement and how funding and resources are managed.

Volunteers are responsible for maintaining the historic Old Hall Gardens, which are surrounded by the old Town Walls.

The gardens are part of the restored grounds that originally belonged to the town house of the Edmondes family, dating back to around 1740.

Shoppers use the paths through the gardens as a thoroughfare between a car park and Cowbridge High Street, and the grounds are also home to Cowbridge Library and St Aubin Nursery.