Tell us a village is posh, without telling us it’s posh. Let us guess: it’s lined with chocolate box, thatched-roof cottages, Range Rovers are parked on the driveways, there’s a bougie gastropub in the centre, a well-stocked Waitrose, cobblestone streets and fancy private school just around the corner.
Sound about right? Well, if you fancy living somewhere similar (or just want to know the most upper-crust parts of the UK countryside), the Telegraph has you covered. The newspaper did some digging to determine the 48 ‘poshest’ villages in the country. As well as house prices, experts took into account stuff like ease of commuting, aesthetic appeal and access to quality shops, pubs and restaurants.
In some of the spots, such as Harpsden in Oxfordshire or West Itchenor in Sussex, average house prices reach an average of £1.4 million. That’s an eye-watering six times the UK average.
But apparently the lah-de-dah lifestyle doesn’t have to be that expensive. The village of Bracepeth in County Durham made the cut with an average house price of £446,545, while Haigh, Greater Manchester was deemed posh enough for the list, despite a pretty affordable average house price of £283,414.
Want to see if your village is among the poshest of them all? Here’s the full list.
The UK’s poshest villages, according to the Telegraph
Studham, Bedfordshire
Sunningdale, Berkshire
Medmenham, Buckinghamshire
Hemingford Abbots, Cambridgeshire
The Alderleys, Cheshire
Rock, Cornwall
Brancepeth, County Durham
Stavely-in-Cartmel, Cumbria
Baslow and Bubnell, Derbyshire
South Pool, Devon
Abbotsbury, Dorset
Sutton Upon Derwent, East Riding of Yorkshire
Kingston-near-Lewes, East Sussex
Ramsden Bellhouse, Essex
Oddington, Gloucestershire
Haigh, Greater Manchester
Beaulieu, Hampshire
Bosbury, Herefordshire
Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire
Fishbourne, Isle of Wight
Ightham, Kent
Wiswell, Lancashire
Newtown Linford, Leicestershire
Uffington, Lincolnshire
Hightown, Merseyside
Shirenewton, Monmouthshire
Burnham Market, Norfolk
Kirkby Overblow, North Yorkshire
Church with Chapel Brampton, Northamptonshire
Mitford, Northumberland
Stanton-on-the-Wolds, Nottinghamshire
Harpsden, Oxfordshire
Burley, Rutland
Cound, Shropshire
Wellow, Somerset
Cawthorne, South Yorkshire
Shenstone, Staffordshire
Kippen, Stirling and Falkirk
Walberswick, Suffolk
Shackleford, Surrey
Dinnington, Tyne and Wear
Llancarfan, Vale of Glamorgan
Whichford, Warwickshire
Barston, West Midlands
West Itchenor, West Sussex
Scarcroft, West Yorkshire
Shalbourne, Wiltshire
Dodford with Grafton, Worcestershire
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