Local knowledge help: Where to start looking in Warwickshire?

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Bishops Itchington is a lovely village on the outskirts of Southam, and around 20 mins from Leamington. Harbury is also nearby but is more pricey, though with your budget I don't think you'd have an issue buying there. Also nearby a bir further out is Kineton, Long Itchington and Marton. I don't really understand why people are telling you to avoid Southam - nothing wrong with it, its just a small town. Stratford is nice but extremely touristy/busy along with but to a lesser extent, Warwick. Hampton Magna and Norton Lindsay are lovely villages on the outskirts of Warwick (there are also a lot of new builds going up in Hampton Magna right now). Look at Bearley and Snitterfield also. 

Avoid Lillington, Coventry and Rugby. With your budget you can afford much better. 

Angela_D_3

Don’t forget HS2 - all these lovely villages being quoted,  I believe the train goes straight through half of them ! 

stig

Agree about HS2, it’s heartbreaking how much beautiful countryside has been devastated by the preparation for this.  Do look very carefully at the current and future affected areas and how close these are to anywhere you decide to look more closely at.

Stig

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Angela_D_3 said:

Don’t forget HS2 - all these lovely villages being quoted,  I believe the train goes straight through half of them ! 

No, it doesn't.... 

thriftytracey

Doozergirl said:

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Elmer_BeFuddled said:

Doozergirl said:

I'm in Bromsgrove, but we lived on the Worcs/Warks border around Feckenham and Astwood Bank for a while.......

So many lovely places to visit.  

.........All this reminiscing..... Wheres me hanky?!! (Originally from Redditch**).


**Not a good place TBH, Why I kept leaving!!

My nearest town is Alcester followed by Redditch which is awful in too many ways to list!  I never say I live near Redditch!  Worcester is a lovely city, the cathedral, the river, really nice town centre, beautiful flower displays at the moment.  Some of my work colleagues lived in Worcester and the commute would be an hour plus.  I think commute is so important.  Some people don't mind an hour or longer on motorways but having once worked in Banbury with 6am wake ups it ground me down so much I changed jobs to Warwick.  I retired in 2019 and the developments around where I worked (the Technology Park) were huge - literally hundreds and hundreds of houses going up.  If there was an accident on any motorway there was total gridlock getting out of Warwick and it wasn't unusual every couple of weeks for two hour journey home.  Although leaving at 3.30pm never seemed to encounter delays.  I haven't been back since - I guess the houses are now complete.  Lord knows what it is like now.  I would recommend Inkberrow village - excellent gp surgery, local shop won award for best shop of the year, primary school, two pubs and a post office.  Three playing fields for ball chasing (dogs that is).  I don't know why I am selling up!  HAHA.

I'm more than happy to avoid Redditch! Roundabouts might make it easy to move around, but  it's soul-less and I get dizzy on the 360 degree slip roads.  😂

Inkberrow is lovely.  My friend is chef at one of the pubs and I still haven't been to eat.    Where are you moving to? 

Worcester is a lovely city.  I'd live there but it's too far a drive from London for me.  

We are hoping to move to North Devon and travelling down later this week for a reccie.  I just hope the housing market is not as mad there as it is here!

Our local is The Old Bull. Lovely pub and full of character.  One of those many pubs that "Shakespeare visited"  he was a right gadabout.  Also the "Archers Pub".

Rach3l

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Bishops Itchington is a lovely village on the outskirts of Southam, and around 20 mins from Leamington. Harbury is also nearby but is more pricey, though with your budget I don't think you'd have an issue buying there. Also nearby a bir further out is Kineton, Long Itchington and Marton. I don't really understand why people are telling you to avoid Southam - nothing wrong with it, its just a small town. Stratford is nice but extremely touristy/busy along with but to a lesser extent, Warwick. Hampton Magna and Norton Lindsay are lovely villages on the outskirts of Warwick (there are also a lot of new builds going up in Hampton Magna right now). Look at Bearley and Snitterfield also. 

Avoid Lillington, Coventry and Rugby. With your budget you can afford much better. 

Lovely, thank you for the recommendations!

Was looking at some of the Hampton Magna new builds too so glad you brought those up.

Yes, still interested in Southam, so glad to hear that. Technically I'm in a "undesirable" area at the moment but it's actually lovely, just not as pretty as its surroundings. Not going to rule it out just yet until I've visited!