Evesham

Road_Hog

KingPasta wrote: »

Evesham is a lovely town.

I think you're overcooking it a bit there. It's okay, but nothing special.

jvpari

KingPasta wrote: »

Evesham is a lovely town.

With the view of schools, I'd highly recommend finding a property that would give your children placement into St. Egwins Middle School, and then onto Prince Henry's High School.

Prince Henry's in particular has an 'Outstanding' OFSTED report (2013) and has consistently achieved this grading for many years. In terms of league tables, it sits amongst the top public schools in the county.

For location, there's a new build development called 'The Orchards', Taylor Wimpey, Barrett Homes and Bovis are all building there.

Avoid areas like the Rynal, bengeworth and port street.
Area's in Evesham that are worth mentioning are Green Hill, which is near Prince Henry's School, Broadway Road is also nice.

Pershore Road / Hampton is a nice area with a farm shop. Cheltenham Road, and the new Persimmon Development here is also nice.

There's a large estate called four pools in Evesham. I believe this to be ok too.

Outside Evesham you have villages like, Broadway and Fladbury which are very nice.

KP

Thank you for this, it's really helpful. To get into Prince Henry's, the boys would need to go to Swan Lane or St Andrew's first schools. Do you happen to know how big the catchments are for these schools?

Unfortunately although we're moving from London, we will be loosing my salary and my husband's London weighting so money will be very tight so places like Broadway are definitely out of the question!

Doozergirl

The schools are called feeder schools but in the three tier system, you don't have to go to one of the first schools to go to the middle, or middle to go to high. Children from my daughter's first school go to all of the local middle schools. The majority, in the six years that I've been a parent at that school, have gone to a middle that feeds the high school in the other pyramid.

Catchment is probably more important, but again, at middle level I don't know anyone that hasn't got their first choice regardless of where they live in town. Once you get to high school, the catchment areas are vast anyway.

I moved out from London and my children have been to very small village schools - in fact, my friends in Worcester and other towns have done this too. This is what Worcestershire does really well. My DD is in a class of 10 children. The quality of teaching is superb, she is a bright girl and is working two levels above national average, but the school is also recommended to the parents of children with special educational need. they are able to tailor work at that size. I would look at the village schools even if you choose to live in town.

Doozergirl

Don't panic too much about money. We lost my salary when we moved and I never felt richer. I had time with my kids and didn't have to buy fancy outfits for work. It was astounding just how much of my salary went towards work related things.

It takes a bit of getting used to. Book visits back to London every few months together for a hit of the big city. Eventually, when you're driving down the A40 into the city, you'll feel like you're going away, not coming home.

Road_Hog

Doozergirl wrote: »

Don't panic too much about money. We lost my salary when we moved and I never felt richer. I had time with my kids and didn't have to buy fancy outfits for work. It was astounding just how much of my salary went towards work related things.

It takes a bit of getting used to. Book visits back to London every few months together for a hit of the big city. Eventually, when you're driving down the A40 into the city, you'll feel like you're going away, not coming home.

Oh gawd, I hate going to London these days, it's the pits. I lived there for about 30 years and both my parents and inlaws still live there. I visit it about once a month at the moment and I can't wait to leave.

jvpari

I'm happy to move away from London, but i think I'll miss the ease of access to everywhere. We are so close to a station at the moment and i really don't want to be dependant on a car, which is a big consideration in the house location. We're moving to be half way between grandparents.

Doozergirl

I think you will struggle without a car. Most of us would out here, but coming from London, you will find yourself living a pretty insular and miserable existance. There isn't a great deal of cariety locally.

Public transport is poor. On the upside, we rarely have traffic jams and paralell parking is virtually unecessary, so driving is more of a pleasure.

School friends are likely to be pretty far apart, therefore your friends for coffee, and some shops etc are also pretty spread out. I'm not speaking from an in depth knowledge of Evesham but I do a lot of mileage just ferrying the kids around. We go out of town to country parks, some shops, the cinema etc are in neighbouring towns and in the school holidays you'll want to get out to Hatton or Stratford or Broadway etc. a lot of that we do with school friends.

jvpari

Doozergirl wrote: »

I think you will struggle without a car. Most of us would out here, but coming from London, you will find yourself living a pretty insular and miserable existance. There isn't a great deal of cariety locally.

Public transport is poor. On the upside, we rarely have traffic jams and paralell parking is virtually unecessary, so driving is more of a pleasure.

School friends are likely to be pretty far apart, therefore your friends for coffee, and some shops etc are also pretty spread out. I'm not speaking from an in depth knowledge of Evesham but I do a lot of mileage just ferrying the kids around. We go out of town to country parks, some shops, the cinema etc are in neighbouring towns and in the school holidays you'll want to get out to Hatton or Stratford or Broadway etc. a lot of that we do with school friends.

thanks, that's really helpful to know

agrinnall

One thing to be careful of when choosing a location in Evesham is not to be too close to the river. There may have been work done to reduce the risk of flooding but you can be pretty sure that at some point there will be a major flood again.