Find me the Cotswolds Brigadoon....
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Chipping Camden
Stanton
laverton
Cold Aston
Temple Guiting
Villages between Cirencester and Fairford
Willersey
Longborough (I think, been a while since I have been there)
I live near Broadway and TBH Broadway is fine, the best of the list for everyday living, still chocolate box, still tolerable in summer especially if you are at the upper end of the High Street.
If they fancy building their own place I could sell them a 1 acre plot in Broadway for £1m (probably a bit much but a very nice plot)
BTW the roads are great its easy to pass someone doing 16mph and traffic is generally light. Wouldn't live anywhere else at the moment.
Stanton
laverton
Cold Aston
Temple Guiting
Villages between Cirencester and Fairford
Willersey
Longborough (I think, been a while since I have been there)
I live near Broadway and TBH Broadway is fine, the best of the list for everyday living, still chocolate box, still tolerable in summer especially if you are at the upper end of the High Street.
If they fancy building their own place I could sell them a 1 acre plot in Broadway for £1m (probably a bit much but a very nice plot)
BTW the roads are great its easy to pass someone doing 16mph and traffic is generally light. Wouldn't live anywhere else at the moment.
Edited by blueg33 on Saturday 15th January 19:39
TBH, people like that the Cotswolds can do with out. Get them to look at Pembrokeshire, otherwise tell them to f
k right out of the cotswolds. If they don't like what is on offer, fk off.
A lot of the smaller villages like Cold Aston have been wrecked buy outsiders who buy a second home. Desert the village other than a couple of weekends a year, therefore closing the Pubs, Shop, Post office etc. Cold Aston is like a ghost village during the week. The pub has changed hands so many times and is currently being refurbished again by some poor soul who thinks they can make it work.
Seriously, tell them the Cotswolds smell and go else where.
k right out of the cotswolds. If they don't like what is on offer, fk off. A lot of the smaller villages like Cold Aston have been wrecked buy outsiders who buy a second home. Desert the village other than a couple of weekends a year, therefore closing the Pubs, Shop, Post office etc. Cold Aston is like a ghost village during the week. The pub has changed hands so many times and is currently being refurbished again by some poor soul who thinks they can make it work.
Seriously, tell them the Cotswolds smell and go else where.
Is a shop a necessity? Surely most 'Chocolate Box Cottage' villages will be, or at least should be, without shop. My village is, as is that of my parents and indeed many villages in this area.
A village with basic shopping amenities is more or less now describing a small Market town!
I used to live in the area you've been looking and my sister is about to move back that way. I liked Lower Slaughter. I think Broadway is where Silverstone are moving some work to. How about closer to Stratford-Upon-Avon?
A village with basic shopping amenities is more or less now describing a small Market town!
I used to live in the area you've been looking and my sister is about to move back that way. I liked Lower Slaughter. I think Broadway is where Silverstone are moving some work to. How about closer to Stratford-Upon-Avon?
No offence to you Tonker, but if someone wants to move to the centre of the Cotswolds, The tourist mecca called the Cotswolds, they will have to put up with the tourists. That is where a lot of the money comes from and the typical Cotswold villages you mention, are all on the tourist trail. If they want to live in the area and avoid the tourists, they need to look at some of the outline towns or villages. How about Cirencester or some of the villages close by. Anpney Crusis for example? Not Bourton, Broadway, Stow, Woodstock, Burford etc. This is where the idiot tourists descend. The real Cotwsold local towns are Northleach, Cirencester, Moreton In Marsh, Shipston on Stour and Winchcombe. All the rest are full of tourists in the holiday season. One of the nicest villages close to Broadway is Saintbury, if they like this part of the area.
It would be great to get someone living in the area and contributing to the local business. I apologise for the second home rant, but people who still live in the area are seeing their villages raped of any life. If 60% of the village say is second home, there is no way the local shops, pubs, schools etc can continue. We are seeing a vicious circle. Once this starts to erode the rural way of life, it goes completely and we will be left with nothing but house carcass and no life.
It would be great to get someone living in the area and contributing to the local business. I apologise for the second home rant, but people who still live in the area are seeing their villages raped of any life. If 60% of the village say is second home, there is no way the local shops, pubs, schools etc can continue. We are seeing a vicious circle. Once this starts to erode the rural way of life, it goes completely and we will be left with nothing but house carcass and no life.
Wootton near Woodstock has a nice Pub, Nice shop and close to Woodstock. A good bus route into Oxford is also a bonus. Charlbury is a great little centre. Large Co op, new Doctors complex. Book shop, a few pubs, and a station. Worth a look!
Ascot Under Wychwood. Great community shop, station, pub and on the bus route to Burford. Milton Under Wychwood. Nice shop, pubs and some nice property. Kingham. Nice shop, two nice pubs, Dalesford just down the road, and on a bus route to Stow.
Seriously, if you want some help, PM me. I lived close to Cold Aston / Bourton for 30 years and now live in Great Rollright and work in Woodstock.
Ascot Under Wychwood. Great community shop, station, pub and on the bus route to Burford. Milton Under Wychwood. Nice shop, pubs and some nice property. Kingham. Nice shop, two nice pubs, Dalesford just down the road, and on a bus route to Stow.
Seriously, if you want some help, PM me. I lived close to Cold Aston / Bourton for 30 years and now live in Great Rollright and work in Woodstock.
anonymous said:
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The Costwolds refers to the limestone Costwold Escarpement and the villages built thereon. The escaprment stretches from near Stratford on Avon in the north to Bath in the south. Most houses are built of the local stone whoose colour varies from place to place.To the Op
Have you tried Chadlington?
Otherwise you have done all of the chocolate box places and they will have to compromise.
Not quite in the Cotswolds
http://www.deddington.org.uk/index
http://www.deddingtonnews.co.uk/
Only come if you want to join in, plenty going on for us oldies.
http://www.deddington.org.uk/index
http://www.deddingtonnews.co.uk/
Only come if you want to join in, plenty going on for us oldies.
Little Rissington (Other Rissingtons are available)
Great Barrington (smaller Barringtons are also available)
Outskirts of Burford?
Great Barrington is utterly lovely. Think National Trust perfect.
Lechlade is just fab and I'm currently looking at a house there (much much smaller than your parents though!) and there might even be a lovely new tea shop opening in the not so distant future should it be viable...
Great Barrington (smaller Barringtons are also available)
Outskirts of Burford?
Great Barrington is utterly lovely. Think National Trust perfect.
Lechlade is just fab and I'm currently looking at a house there (much much smaller than your parents though!) and there might even be a lovely new tea shop opening in the not so distant future should it be viable...
but her house is on the market but probably the wrong side of your budget at a mere £320k It seems their criteria contains so many contradictions that your weekends may be taken for many years to come!
Interesting comment on Council houses, perhaps worth bearing in mind that in the Cotswolds they tend to house the locals who are an integral part of the community rather than feral low life scum who can't afford a privately built house. And whilst I haven't counted I suspect Broadway has more Council housing versus private than Chipping Norton.
From what they have said Shipston & villages may warrant a closer look, a proper bustling market town with interesting shops rather than purely antiques. There are some lovely properties in the nooks & crannies and cheaper than the tourist Cotswolds.
Interesting comment on Council houses, perhaps worth bearing in mind that in the Cotswolds they tend to house the locals who are an integral part of the community rather than feral low life scum who can't afford a privately built house. And whilst I haven't counted I suspect Broadway has more Council housing versus private than Chipping Norton.
From what they have said Shipston & villages may warrant a closer look, a proper bustling market town with interesting shops rather than purely antiques. There are some lovely properties in the nooks & crannies and cheaper than the tourist Cotswolds.
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