Warwickshire &amp; West Midlands


<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-why">WHY?</h2>



<p>This village is just a stone&#8217;s throw from pretty Charlecote Park and Compton Verney, has a great community vibe, one of the largest outdoor markets in the country and one of the oldest allotments, dating from 1840. If getting your hands dirty doesn&#8217;t do it for you then then check out the miles of surrounding open countryside and its perfect position between the historic towns of Stratford-upon-Avon and Warwick. </p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">EAT</h2>



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<p>For local coffee, cake, handmade pizza and an expertly made cocktail you&#8217;re going to want to visit <a href="https://www.thegardenshedcafe.co.uk">The Garden Shed Café</a>. There&#8217;s a lovely outdoor seating area and its dog friendly throughout, sold! If pizza is your thing then check out the <a href="https://www.turkishstonebakers.com">Turkish Stonebakers</a> for handmade pide &#8211; a kind of hand-stretched pizza. Just up the road there’s the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.barasetbarn.co.uk/">Baraset Barn</a>, a stylish restaurant, bar and hotel. </p>



<p>Stratford-upon-Avon has plenty more choice including the two AA Rosette&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theardenhotelstratford.com/">No.44 Brasserie on The Waterside at The Arden Hotel,</a>&nbsp;opposite the RSC, which also has its own impressive glass-fronted&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rsc.org.uk/rooftop-restaurant">Rooftop Restaurant&nbsp;</a>with panoramic riverside views. Period architecture aficionados will like&nbsp;<a href="https://www.stratfordtownhouse.co.uk/">The Townhouse</a>, a centrally located restaurant with rooms inside&nbsp;a 400-year-old, Grade II listed building. On the same street is Paul Foster’s snug Michelin-starred restaurant&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salt-restaurant.co.uk/">Salt</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.lambsrestaurant.co.uk/">Lambs Restaurant</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thewoodsmanrestaurant.com/">The Woodsman at Hotel Indigo</a>.&nbsp;</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">SHOP</h2>



<p>Well there&#8217;s the huge, weekly Wellesbourne Market, but elsewhere in the town you&#8217;ll find plenty of convenience stores. Head to Stratford where high street names include M&amp;S, Lakeland, Jack Wills and The White Company but look beyond for independents like&nbsp;<a href="https://www.paxtonandwhitfield.co.uk/visit-us">Paxton &amp; Whitfield</a>‘s cheese shop, wine merchants&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vinneuf.co.uk/">Vin Neuf</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://vinegarhill.co.uk/">Vinegar Hill</a>, a family-run home, fashion &amp; lifestyle&nbsp;store.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bellcourtstratford.com/">Bell Court</a>, an attractive courtyard of bars, eateries, beauty salons and shops, includes&nbsp;<a href="https://www.morbakery.co.uk/">Mor bakery</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://sistersistercollective.net/">Sister Sister Collective</a>&nbsp;and pop-art&nbsp;specialist&nbsp;<a href="https://whitelightgallery.co.uk/">White Light Gallery</a>. There’s <a href="https://hudsonsstratford.com/password">Hudsons</a><a href="https://www.bondslifestyle.co.uk/">,</a>&nbsp;a stylish independent lifestyle and interiors store on Evesham Road with a stunning 70-seater café. In the nearby the village of Snitterfield, is a lovely Muddy Award-winning family-run farm shop, food hall and café,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cobbsfarmshops.co.uk/cobbs-at-the-farm-stratford">Cobbs at The Farm</a>.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">CULTURE</h2>



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<p>You&#8217;re just down the road from <a href="https://www.comptonverney.org.uk">Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park</a>, with Capability Brown landscape to explore and ever-changing exhibitions. You can catch some of the best national theatre and acting talent outside of London performed by the<a href="https://www.rsc.org.uk/">&nbsp;Royal Shakespeare Company</a>. An action-packed annual events calendar includes Shakespeare’s Birthday weekend celebrations, a river festival, street markets, food festival and the esteemed&nbsp;<a href="https://www.stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/">Stratford Literary Festival</a>.&nbsp;</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">NEARBY ATTRACTIONS</h2>



<p>The National Trust’s beautiful heritage property&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/charlecote-park">Charlecote Park</a>, a Victorian country house and landscaped deer park, is right in the village. There’s&nbsp;<a href="http://www.charlecotemill.co.uk/">Charlecote Mill</a>&nbsp;too which is one of the only surviving and working watermills still grinding its own flour – which you can buy onsite.&nbsp;For the ‘full Bard’ experience you can visit&nbsp;<a href="https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/">Shakespeare’s five family homes</a>&nbsp;dotted in and-around the town centre, including the postcard-pretty Anne Hathaway’s Cottage,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.shakespearesschoolroom.org/">Shakespeare’s Schoolroom and Guildhall</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.stratford-upon-avon.org/">Holy Trinity Church</a>&nbsp;where he is buried. There’s the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.everymancinema.com/stratford-upon-avon">Everyman Cinema</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.magicalleystratford.com/">Magic Alley</a>&nbsp;in Bell Court, tiny but quirky&nbsp;<a href="https://themadmuseum.co.uk/">MAD (Mechanical Art and Design)</a>&nbsp;museum, a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.butterflyfarm.co.uk/attraction/">butterfly farm</a>, canal and river boat tours or local gin-making masterclasses at&nbsp;<a href="https://shakespearedistillery.com/">Shakespeare Distillery</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.stratfordplay.co.uk/">Stratford PlayHouse</a>&nbsp;is home to&nbsp;<a href="https://orchestraoftheswan.org/">Orchestra of the Swan</a>, a professional chamber orchestra whose is patron is Dame Judi Dench.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">AVERAGE HOUSE PRICE</h2>



<p>Around £368,087 with most detached properties going for around £442,819. Semi-detached properties sold for an average of £344,753.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-hot-property">HOT PROPERTY</h2>



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<p>A recently refurbished, <a href="https://www.knightfrank.co.uk/properties/residential/for-sale/chapel-street-wellesbourne-warwick-warwickshire-cv35/str012437854" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">beautiful Grade II family home</a> with an annexe, garaging and river frontage, on with Knight Frank for £1395,000.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">BEST KEPT SECRET</h2>



<p>Chedham&#8217;s Yard just out off the village is a a blacksmith&#8217;s and wheelwright&#8217;s workshop which is more than 200 years old. In 2006 it won the BBC Restoration Village competition which saw it win £250,000 of funding to make it the centre it is today.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">NURSERIES</h2>



<p>There’s <a href="https://www.theoldstationnursery.co.uk/nurseries/wellesbourne/">The Old Station Nursery</a> and a nursery at <a href="https://www.wellesbourneceprimary.co.uk">Wellesbourne C of E Primary</a> too.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.greenfieldsnurseryshipston.co.uk/">Greenfield Nursery School</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.shipstonpreschool.co.uk/">Shipston Pre School</a> are nearby, with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.littledragonsnursery.com/">Little Dragons</a>&nbsp;in nearby Snitterfield.&nbsp;<a href="https://warks.muddystilettos.co.uk/national-school-reviews/croft-prepatory-school-stratford-upon-avon/">The Croft:Prep</a>&nbsp;in Alveston provides care from age 3.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">SCHOOLS</h2>



<p><a href="https://www.welfordonavonschool.co.uk/">Welford-on-Avon Primary</a>&nbsp;is rated outstanding as is&nbsp;<a href="https://warks.muddystilettos.co.uk/national-school-reviews/croft-prepatory-school-stratford-upon-avon/">The Croft:Prep</a>, a rural co-educational independent day school for 3 to 11-year-olds in the village. There are around 44 good and outstanding state primary and secondary schools in the wider Stratford-upon-Avon area. The town also has two outstanding grammar schools.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.kes.net/">King Edward VI</a>, Shakespeare’s school, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sggs.org.uk/">Stratford Girls</a>‘ in Shottery. Independent secondary school options range from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.princethorpe.co.uk/page/?pid=10">Princethorpe College</a>, near Rugby to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.warwickschool.org/">Warwick School</a>&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.kingshighwarwick.co.uk/">King’s High</a>, the single sex&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thekingsleyschool.co.uk/">Kingsley School</a>&nbsp;for girls in Leamington Spa,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.solsch.org.uk/">Solihull School</a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sibfordschool.co.uk/">Sibford School</a>, Banbury.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">COMMUTE</h2>



<p>A direct route from Stratford-upon-Avon train station to London Marylebone via Chiltern Railways takes around 1hr 50 mins.</p>



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