Moved to York - Help Needed!

[Welsh Pirate]

Welcome from another York resident! Ged Bell is my local butchers too - you can't go wrong with his pies (or meat for that matter)!

[darkyoung1000]

detee said:

We need a York branch of piston heads, welcome to York. Naburn here.

Maybe we should have some form of York-based meet up when circumstances permit....?

[northernmedia]

darkyoung1000 said:

detee said:

We need a York branch of piston heads, welcome to York. Naburn here.

Maybe we should have some form of York-based meet up when circumstances permit....?

There have been a number of local meets arranged over the years.

I'm just up from the Sun Pub.
Lots of exotica tucked away locally

[Blueprint]

Thanks for all the tips here, as this thread popped up when I googled a certain area of York.

We're over in North Leeds but pop in to York regularly as well as Naburn (where I'm learning to sail - brilliant fun), and have started scanning around at what's available. Might take a while but I feel a draw to the area!

[anonymous-user]

Blueprint said:

Thanks for all the tips here, as this thread popped up when I googled a certain area of York.

We're over in North Leeds but pop in to York regularly as well as Naburn (where I'm learning to sail - brilliant fun), and have started scanning around at what's available. Might take a while but I feel a draw to the area!

We moved from north leeds over to york 4 years ago. Pros and cons but would not move back.

[Blueprint]

soofsayer said:

We moved from north leeds over to york 4 years ago. Pros and cons but would not move back.

That's good to hear - pros and cons list is underway.

[littleredrooster]

Woo-hoo! We were looking to move from Rugby to Haxby/Wigginton but have just had an offer accepted on a bungalow in Thirsk (well, Sowerby actually - 800 yards away!). Looking forward to spotting some PH smileys in the area now.

[SamanthaJH]

Hi just started to look myself in York and found this forum I know it’s a while back but where did you end up and what more have you learned since you moved in terms of desirable areas? I hope you’re enjoying the area you moved to thanks

garyhun said:

Hi all,


Mrs G and I have just (3 weeks ago) moved into a rental in York and are about to start house hunting.

We need to start working out what are the nicer areas to check out so thought I'd ask here.

Ideally we'd like to be within 5 miles but could go further out as long as we have easy public/taxi transport into the city for evenings. No commuting to take into account or schools required.

Looking at a village if possible with pub and shop and looking at 3 beds with garden. Max price around £650,000.

We've seen a house online in Acomb that looks interesting - what's that area like?

Cheers, Gary

Areas we've already been told to look at are:

Heworth and Holgate
Bishopsthorpe
Naburn
Haxby
Wigginton
Dunnington
Fulford
Escrick
Riccall

[anonymous-user]

SamanthaJH said:

You have mail.

[detee]

Did you move to Naburn in the end?

[DaveyBoyWonder]

detee said:

Did you move to Naburn in the end?

As per my earlier posts in this thread, we looked (briefly) at Naburn and as I think someone else had said, its lovely if you buy a boat. I googled "Naburn floods" and that struck it off the list pretty quickly. Moving from the Calder valley, I'd seen enough water over the last 5 years to last me a lifetime! So personally I'd avoid Naburn.

We eventually settled just off Tadcaster Road and couldn't be happier. Brilliant schools, on the edge of York so straight into the countryside/Knavesmire, nice choice of houses and even got a vaccination centre setup in Tesco car park 5 mins walk away

[Festa_94]

Welcome to York lovely area

A little further south in Selby

[georgefreeman918]

DaveyBoyWonder said:

detee said:

Did you move to Naburn in the end?

As per my earlier posts in this thread, we looked (briefly) at Naburn and as I think someone else had said, its lovely if you buy a boat. I googled "Naburn floods" and that struck it off the list pretty quickly. Moving from the Calder valley, I'd seen enough water over the last 5 years to last me a lifetime! So personally I'd avoid Naburn.

We eventually settled just off Tadcaster Road and couldn't be happier. Brilliant schools, on the edge of York so straight into the countryside/Knavesmire, nice choice of houses and even got a vaccination centre setup in Tesco car park 5 mins walk away

Hello from another York (ish) based member - Stamford Bridge at the moment, but did grow up in Wheldrake and lived in Naburn for 2 years (2015/2016)

You are right about the flooding and I feel for anyone that lives there at the moment. Thankfully in 2015, our property did not get flooded, but water was to 4 sides of the property and cm from breaching the damp proof level on the brick work. Lovely village, but I would avoid buying unless you find a property well above the rest of the village.

[Nyloc20]

We almost moved to Stamford Bridge from Brid 33 years ago. We’ve always liked Stamford Bridge but we got a great deal on a house in Copmanthorpe. We’ve been very happy here.