if you could live anywhere, we would it be? Village with train station and school

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I need a fresh start - does your village have a train station and a school? That's all I need - tell me where in the uk you are, what you love about it and if I can buy a luxurious private not overlooked house there?! 😃

YABU - this does not exist
YANBU - tell me where!!

I grew up in a lovely little town in rural Somerset with a few shops, pubs, a post office, a train station, a few schools and a beautiful church. Houses prices have shot up as apparently it's a celebrity hot-spot now but I wasn't when i lived there.

I wouldn't call Marple a village though @greenpeaks it's basically the edge of greater manchester suburbia and whilst you've got the canal and countryside on your doorstep it's hardly village sized!
Go a bit further out though e.g. into the Hope Valley and they're villages 4 bedroom detached house for sale in Parsons Lane, Hope, Hope Valley, S33

There are a few villages between Orpington and Sevenoaks that have a train station and a school. There are also some others in the vicinity of Tunbridge Wells. I have never lived in any of them,

Yeah, we're really fortunate. We have a lovely tennis club (and annual membership is only around £100-£150) and a cricket club, for which family annual membership isn't any more than that, so both are really accessible.

The village itself has some very pretty parts. It's also average in parts. But, for us, it offers the perfect balance.

West Kilbride - Ayrshire
Fairlie - Ayrshire
Lochwinnoch - Renfrewshire

All on railway line to Glasgow - less than 40 mins travelling.
Lovely views, countryside, seaside.

Small town with both and a High Street. I'm not cut out for the claustrophobia of village life.
Ruralish East Herts, footpaths and countryside ten minutes walk away.

We commute from Dorridge into Birmingham and London. Very convenient if a bit pricy. Possibly not quite as village-y as you may be thinking but it's got good primary schools, an excellent secondary and a cricket team.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/167785646?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=buying&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=copytoclipboard#/&channel=RES_BUY

Goostrey in Cheshire. It’s on the line btwn Manchester and Crewe.

Plus point of a massive radio telescope on your doorstep!😀

I only learnt since reading your post that there are technical definitions of towns and villages.

Marple’s population in the 2021 census was 12,980. That puts it well over the threshold of 7500 used by many, but not all, to define a village. As towns go, it is very small and it certainly has the feel of a village.

The 2021 population of Hope was listed at something under 3600. Defo a village!

We walk from Hope. It’s lovely, as is that house. But there is only one train an hour (sometimes less) between Sheffield and Manchester, which is your only route out of the Hope Valley. You need to be a patient
traveller.

7 bedroom detached house for sale in Old Rectory Lane, Alvechurch, B48

Alvechurch in Worcestershire - never lived there, but lived a few miles away in a less 'nice' village! It's got a train station, with trains into Birmingham for commuting or grammar/independent schools. There are first and middle schools in the village, so you're sorted until year 8. After that it's not far to Bromsgrove, by coach or bus.

It's a decent sized village of about 5000, so good facilities. It's old and pretty and set in lovely countryside, yet close to the M42 for getting around!

Charlbury is nice

This is going to sound silly because it is a perfectly ordinary rural town really, but we live in Crewkerne in Somerset and absolutely love it here. I wouldn't live anywhere else, including the very naice villages around, even if I was a millionaire because to me, it's perfect. We used to live in London and then in a small town in Kent, and before that I lived in Cardiff and various other places in the SE.

My friends who have lived here all their lives laugh at me because I'm so enthusiastic about the area, but to me it's wonderful- pretty hamstone buildings, plenty of very convenient shops, a public swimming pool, and a train station that gets us back to London to see family in a couple of hours. Lots of nice countryside around for walking and a friendly community. I'll never leave 😁