Did you know that places like this still existed?

Question

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1042432/It-crime-employment-cheap-housing--owned-lord-manor-So-perfect-English-village.html

I didn`t.

It might be considered old fashioned, but how fascinating.

I love how the bus comes once a week and that a lady pensioner chased off a group of gypsies with a pickaxe. Lol.

I`m not against people having 2nd homes in the country, but i don`t think it is right, when it means that local people get priced out of the housing market.

Crime is non-existant. How refreshing, when every week there seems to be another stabbing in the news.

Answer 1

Stepford wives sans robots. Creepy

Answer 2

Sounds perfect!

However, you know me, I would have to be lady of the manor lol

Answer 3

wow I want to move there.

Answer 4

It was probably a great place to live until the paper mentioned it. Now you can't get there for tourists.

As for crime - you'll probably find there's a bunch of hacking/phishing Grannies there - the internet knows no bounds! :-)

Answer 5

Trust me..They will probably all dance naked around the post office whilst sacrificing a little piglet.

Answer 6

Now the whole world knows about it.

Baddies will go & try to stuff it up.

Crims will go there to steal the family jewels & silver, have they got a policeman?

Miss Marples won't be able to handle it.

Answer 7

How cool is that

Answer 8

Having reach a certain age and stage in our lives, this is the kind of place my husband and I have dreamt of living in.

It's a bit like when you go on holiday to somewhere quite wonderful and imagine what it would be like to actually live there.



On taking a reality check we realise that it would be so easy to be cut off. I don't drive, well not safely anyway!!!  And this is the kind of place you need transport.  A bus once a week would be of no use to me whatsoever.  How would I manage my 3 times weekly galavanting to the shops, the library, the market, all those really exciting places I need to go to on a regular basis!!!

No, we will stay here for a bit longer, it's not that bad and maybe when we win the lottery I will have a full time chauffeur and move to our dream village.  And then again it could be just like Midsomer, a murder every week, As you say, who knows what goes with those curtain twitchers!!!

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Answer 9

Yes it does sound great.

I live in the nearest town to Heydon, Norfolk, which is mentioned in the article and it is nothing like this village, shame really :(

Answer 10

Well, I live in an area which could be described like that - near Henley on Thames. The village was, until last year, owned by the lord of the manor and rents were fixed to prevent it becomin commuter-ville.  Affordable houses (6) were also built for children of families who could prove they'd lived there for more than 25 years and who were involved in local community.

Btw: no need to make things up about the gypsies - the article only mentioned "intruders" in relation to crime, so the pick axe wasn't aimed at some poor bugger arriving off a bus, but at a burgalar - and it didn't mention nationality/race etc.

There's a lot to be said for benevolent feudalism, but I would never advocate going back to that - could you doff your cap to the lord of the manor....?? No. We've all moved on from that and there are pluses and minuses along the way.