close-knit

By all accounts, they were a happy, close-knit couple.

"Swanage is a very close-knit community and I know these very sad deaths will have a significant impact on everyone here."

Shawn and his family are well known across Anguilla, and his death has had a huge impact on a very close-knit community.

The Jesus Fellowship Church, which disbanded in 2019 after the BBC revealed allegations of widespread child abuse, recruited thousands of people to live in close-knit, puritanical communities in Northamptonshire, London and the Midlands.

In December 1976, as news of the tragedy spread around the close-knit community, Dyfed-Powys Police launched a double murder investigation and set up an incident room in the heart of the village.