Chew Magna buildings reflecting the history of the village. The River Chew flows through the village. Just outside the village is Chew Magna Reservoir: this small Bristol Water supply reservoir intercepts the Winford Brook. There is one primary school, and an adjacent secondary school, several shops and small businesses, three churches, and three pubs serving the area. There is also a football pitch and children's play area. The village frequently wins regional categories in the Calor Village of the Year competition, and is currently moving towards zero waste status, having been described as "probably the greenest parish in Britain". Chew Magna has
Durga Chew-Bose "n+1", "Interview", "Paper", "Hazlitt", and "This Recording". In "Nylon", Kristen Iverson described Chew-Bose as "one of our most gifted, insightful essayists and critics"; in "The Guardian", Sarah Galo said, "If millennials have an intelligentsia, Brooklyn-based writer Durga Chew-Bose is a member of it[, writing] thoughtful long reads on identity and culture that command readers’ attention." Chew-Bose has also taught writing at Sarah Lawrence College. She has listed Agnès Varda and Wong Kar-wai among her important influences. Taking its title from one of Virginia Woolf's diary entries from 1931, Chew-Bose's "Too Much and Not the Mood" is an essay collection describing