The best village to live in in Yorkshire?

[GloriaSnockers]

DH and I are looking to move and we would like to move to Yorkshire.

Our requirements are...
Lively villlage
Picturesque village
Village green, duckpond, cricket pitch, that type of village centre
Oh and a great pub or two.
Decent broadband, we both work from home

Schools, public transport etc not an issue. What villages would you recommend?

What about near Ilkley or Otley? They’re towns but pretty villages nearby? Burley in Wharfdale? Leeds to London train is fast

On paper, this ticks all boxes house and garden wise:
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-71179576.html

Northallerton has a direct train to London on the grand central route, lots of nice areas around there. Further up the line you have Eaglescliffe just out of Yorkshire but Yarm is a lovely area and some villages further south of it where you could travel to Eaglescliffe station. It’s an easy station for London because it’s tiny and you park just next to the platform!

Menston, Harden, Poole in Wharfdale, Howarth - all West Yorkshire

That flood map looks scary! But is very useful, thank you.

There are lots of lovely villages around Thirsk and Northallerton.
The Grand Central goes Thirsk - York - Kingscross.

Bishopthorpe, Copmanthorpe, Appleton Roebuck and Bolton Percy are south of York villages, could get to York station in half an hour from all of them.

Yes, Westow is nice. As is Howsham.

I think the house is probably going to decide this for you. We thought we'd be somewhere very different to where we are: it was the house that clinched things.

Wasn't there a thread on here not too long ago about how awful York is now, particularly at the weekend...

@PinkysEars you are right, the house will be the decider, knowing us we will find something right in the middle of a busy town, I’ve been following the Yorkshire Town thread this evening 😂
All I am 100% certain is that we want to be in a community, we are far too cut off where we are at the moment and it’s driving me mad, can’t walk to anywhere where other people go, no pub, no post office, nothing.

Gloria...definitely easingwold then

There’s some lovely houses on the green surrounding the town square. It has a well stocked Co-op in town centre and one about 5 min walk away on main road. A good butchers, toy and card shop. An independent health shop. All tucked away in between the pubs and houses. Very quaint
Several good pubs. A nice park with children’s area
The galtres centre gets a film once a month..( Vue cinema is only 20 mins away towards york on the ring road.)
Also it has a gym, and gets visiting plays, and other performing artistes . A morning cafe.
There’s a couple of tea rooms. A market on a Friday
The annual music festival was just two weeks ago in aid of Yorkshire air ambulance
It’s a real good natured family event in town square
My family travelled down for it. It’s on from 12 till 9 pm...because well..it’s a family town.
There’s a town noticeboard, where people post their events.
There’s other little businesses in their too, all dotted around.

We come down on a Wednesday and stay at our caravan just on the outskirts till Sunday.
We can be on the ring road around york in 20 mins. Go left towards Scarborough and There’s Clifton moor with a huge Tesco, Wilkinson’s, furniture shops,
Monks cross a few miles further along has Asda, Debenhams 🤔 , primark, boots...hobbycraft, poundland ..it’s undergoing a Refurb after Dorothy Perkins/ miss selfridge etc chains pulled out..will be interesting to see what comes back
To maxx and Sainsbury’s are behind it
Then there’s vanguarde a little bit further along the ring rd with Nando’s, big m and s , John Lewis and a few other restaurants

Go right on the ring road towards Selby and there’s another complex with more restaurants etc or follow the signs to MacArthur glen , an indoor shopping centre with lots of top names. I tend to avoid but visited with grandson on Friday as he wanted designer stuff. It was pouring outside so yes it was heaving ☹️

York has about 4 theatres and we haven’t had chance to get to any yet. Also a picturehouse cinema in the main centre near the river.
Great music scene . We go down a couple of nights a week to see what’s on or if our favourite bands are playing.

Home is where we come back to , to see the family, do our washing, all our admin and business side of things..and caravan / Easingwold / york and surrounding area is where we go to p,at.

And we go tomorrow...yayyyyy,
I’m like a big kid. It’s like we’ve been picked up and set down in our own version of heaven.
Nice people, plenty to do, lovely scenery. Lovely neighbours on our caravan park.

We are well blessed.

Oops..sorry for the length

And it should read...where we go to play.

I lived in driffield for 25 year or so and never had a flood though.

Yes York does not welcome drivers. Cyclists, walkers and public transport but driving into the centre is not encouraged.

@Dowser that sounds wonderful, will definitely keep an eye on the property market in Easingwold, thanks so much for the detailed reply 😊

No problem...if you visit, you will see why I enthuse

We live less than an hour away on ne coast.
When we come to N Yorks...we are in a completely different world.

If we could we would live near Whitby, we both adore that area, alas it’s just slightly too far north for us right now but it’s definitely on our retirement radar. I absolutely adore the North York’s Moors, we have visited a few times and it blows my mind!

If looking at villages like Westow you’ve also got the option of the train to york from Malton. It’s not particularly fast (approximately 20 mins) - especially when you add travel time to the station - but at peak times would definitely be faster than driving. Same goes for Thirsk. While Easingwold is a similar distance from York as both Malton and Thirsk it doesn’t have the train station so it’s satellite villages are that bit more remote. You may also like Welburn, as well as any of the villages between Hovingham and Malton (hovingham being the largest and having a village shop, relatively big primary and monthly farmers market).

My current drive to the nearest station to London is 60 minutes so anything less than that is great. I don’t mind the journey to the station but it’s that journey home when I get in the car and sigh at the hour journey home. I’d rather a longer train journey and a quick hop in the car home!
I’ll be happy with anything less than 4 hours door to door, bearing in mind that when I get to London It’s 20 mins tube to my head office.

Nunnington, Terrington, Gilling East also all lovely but getting further away from york with those.

I’m finding this interesting reading in conjunction with the post about high flying women. I realise that I’m going off piste somewhat but I wonder how many high flying women would spend 8 hours per day travelling to London. That’s what I do. It’s part of the job and I wouldn’t resent it at all but I don’t earn 6 figures a year. I do hope that those ‘above’ us consider the staff that are travelling for 6 to 8 hours per day, even if it’s ‘only’ one day per week.

But, OP, aren't you choosing to live somewhere where your commute is 8 hours? Alternatively, you could have a much shorter commute and live in a much smaller house in the SE?

But one day a week is nowhere near the same as every day, far from it. I'm out of the office one or two days a week and can easily be travelling 6-8 hours or more. No way would I do that every day or consider it a commute and I'm not a high flyer or even halfway to 6 figures.

At least on the train you can use the travel time, with to work, read or catch up with household admin.

Most of the time I have to drive so can only do that, although I do listen to my podcasts.

Yep, a 6-8 hour commute once a week is of my choosing and something that I don’t resent at all. Leave home at 6Am, at office for approx 9.30, leave office at 4pm, home by 7.30pm. I work on the train.
Totally worth it as a by product of living out of London/ Home Counties.
Sorry I’m really going off topic now.