<P> In September 1939 , as Britain stands on the brink of the war , many young children from the cities are evacuated to the countryside to escape an imminent German bombardment . Willie Beech , a boy from Deptford who is physically and emotionally abused by his mother , arrives at the home of Tom Oakley , a widower in his sixties who lives in the village of Little Weirwold . The boy is thinly clad , underfed and covered with painful bruises , and believes he is full of sin , a result of his upbringing by his mother , a domineering , insane , God - fearing widow . </P>
what is the name of the village in goodnight mr tom
the village of Little Weirwold