Property Unicorn

[SavingForaSnowyDay]

DH has it in his head that we can sell up our convenient-to-everything home and find a detached with at least 1 acre that has a footpath to the nearest village costing less than £1.2 mill and no farther North than Sheffield.

I have NO intention of moving to the country to spend my days in a car. I can't find a way to interrogate property websites to find ones that have footpaths.

I'm right and there's no such thing, yes?

Here's one.https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/158345534#/?channel=RES_BUY

Something like this?

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/162071231#/?channel=RES_BUY

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/161282015#/?channel=RES_BUY

There are quite a few villages in Warks/W Mids/Northamptonshire that are on the rail line to London. For example something like this house, walking distance to large village and also walking distance to train station for London in under an hour and a half. So not particularly isolating.

A beauty with a footpath - great find. But there is no footpath from the house to a village shop. But good to see. Thank you.

Look at the map - no footpath but you can walk through the village streets using pavements to the various pubs, hotels, halls, garages, shops.

I found this property on the Rightmove Android app and wanted you to see it: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/161732258

In a village fifteen minutes outside Cheltenham.

It depends what you are looking for in a village. I'm in the forest of dean, less than a mile walk on footpaths to our nearest village (bus route to nearest city, doctor, post office, small shop, pub, fish and chip shop) and there are a number of properties around here that would fulfill your requirements (including ours but it's it going up for sale for a while yet!)

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/163441346#/?channel=RES_BUY

You can walk through Battle Great Woods from here. Also there is a railway station with a direct line to London.

Properties such as you mention do exist. If he is really serious then he needs to present some of them to you. Or, ask an agent/several agents to find them for you. I suspect you don't intend to move OP.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/149189075?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=buying&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=copytoclipboard#/&channel=RES_BUY

Walking distance to the village which is next to a large town. Is 4 acres too much?

Here's another. Footpath 1 mile to village with good facilities - footpath other way leads directly to the whole of Exmoor and the South West Coast Path.

There are literally thousands of these that will fit your bill (for well under your budget leaving you money to keep a bolt hole in town if that's important to you). www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/162686243#/?channel=RES_BUY

Near the town, near the beach. Lincolnshire. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/147597965#/?channel=RES_BUY

Of course this is possible!

I found this property on the Rightmove Android app and wanted you to see it: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/160933310

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/165115052#/?channel=RES_BUY

This one is local to us, the village doesn't have a shop but it's about 1.5m to the town

I won’t be moving anywhere I can’t walk or get an easy, frequent bus to a dentist, supermarket, GP, vet, library, station and post office

if you have to stop driving for any reason, you’re stuffed otherwise

YABU for phrasing it in this way entirely to clickbait the Rightmove detectives to do your dirty work for you

(We have discussed buying a flat with a balcony in a ‘ naice’ city like Bath, and a cottage in nearby countryside, so we can flit between them, and eventually pull back to the city when we have to abandon our car)

I'm sorry but talent like that shouldn't be underutilised. What amazing properties they have been kind enough to share. Lots of food for thought.

Looks like a property worthy of Matt Damon but I can't be doing with the lack of footpath.

That's really glorious. Thank you.

So not restriction within England aside from not further north that Sheffield.

Sure? No adult kids / grandchildren you’d like to at least be within a couple of hours of?

try Shropshire:
this is in on the edge of a village, next to the wonderful Severn Valley Country Park and has 1.2 acres.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/164017709

This is on the edge of a village and near to Shrewsbury which is lovely and has good transport/trains etc for visitors or family coming home (if you have older kids that might be relevant):
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/160173470

This is 450k under budget, stunning and has 0.62 acres.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/156222230

Another stunner:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/159677174

I think this gives you the idea.

p.s. 700k with an acre:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/162808070

Almost an acre:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/87166824

Or there’s this near Worcester:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/164714273

5.1 acres, near to a lovely village, on the outskirts of Sheffield and close to masses of open countryside. Here's your unicorn.

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/155582225?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=buying&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=copytoclipboard#/&channel=RES_BUY