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By *iamondsmiles. OP Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Describe where you live basically, what i mean is, say if its quiet, busy,big or small has lots of shops ect.

I live in rutland smallest mainland county, its only 18 x 18 miles and only has two towns, i live in the larges. In the county we have no cinema, mcdonalds, or any high street shops apart from boots and fat face, lots of little boutiques and a nice place to look round quaint shops. Low unemployment and low crime rate. But we have the biggest manmade resevoir in the country.

I feel quite blessed to live here

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By *amslam1000Man
over a year ago

willenhall

"Describe where you live basically, what i mean is, say if its quiet, busy,big or small has lots of shops ect.

I feel quite blessed to live here"

lived there for 18 months Yokel central not for me i'm an urbanite

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By *iamondsmiles. OP Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

"Describe where you live basically, what i mean is, say if its quiet, busy,big or small has lots of shops ect.

I feel quite blessed to live here

lived there for 18 months Yokel central not for me i'm an urbanite"

where abouts did you live, sounds like you where on the camp

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

I live in an apartment which has a corner shop 2 sec from my house. Its a 20 min tram ride to brum and a town a mile away... I can't do country life...

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

some of it is outstanding

some of it is utter shite

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A village in North Yorkshire, we have 2 pubs a post office and a Curry House - what more do you need

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By *andKCouple
over a year ago

Norfolk

we live in the middle of nowhere 3 1/2 miles to the nearest shop but only 8 miles to the city. We have quite a bit of land but live in a tiny bungalow

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My brother lives there Diamonds.

I live in a tiny fishing village on the east coast, near St. Andrews (golfers paradise) it's tiny and peaceful at this time of year. (few tourists) Beautiful setting, sea and beach on one side of the road that goes right through the village, countryside and fields on the other. Clean fresh air, freedom to roam for the kids and crime free.

Downside is it takes about a 40 minute drive to get to anywhere close to civilisation........ St. Andy's does have shops banks theatre cinema hospital and university though. Was fine enough for Kate and Will. Everywhere I look there is a golf course, and I don't play.

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By *amslam1000Man
over a year ago

willenhall

lived there for 18 months Yokel central not for me i'm an urbanite"

where abouts did you live, sounds like you where on the camp

you guest it lol

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By *aceytopWoman
over a year ago

from a town near you

i live in a small market town,i walk by the side of the river everyday with the dog,nr the Moors and edge of North Yorks,but only twenty minutes from a Large Town,i love it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Describe where you live basically, what i mean is, say if its quiet, busy,big or small has lots of shops etc."

Monday to Friday; I reside above a tube station where old bill double-parks on just about every yellow line going; there are lots of Italian run cafes, barber shops and a pub on every street corner.. If you walk straight ahead to the Park; turn left and you'll end up outside Her Maj's Palace and if you turn right, you'll end up at The Other Palace .. watch out for joggers.. oh and there's an Army barracks (where you can watch the men in Uniform on parade - or listen to their band playing the Star Wars theme etc)..

Then, I go home..

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

"Describe where you live basically, what i mean is, say if its quiet, busy,big or small has lots of shops etc.

Then, I go home..

Fuck how I miss london...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A medium size town small enough to be sociable yet not too small that everyone knows who is doing what.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

in Leicestershire, the county that used to have Rutland as it's part...

A now growing village area complete with thatched pub, an ancient blacksmiths and rural convenience stores. City a few miles away. Very residential, but over the back is a farm, and the roads run away into the country for some fantastic summer days out. From the side of a hill nearby springs the source of a river. Traffic's busy morning and evening only and at the weekend horsedrawn gigs and restored cars and bikes tour through. Crime is petty and the roads are very safe at night. It's a nice quiet place where neighbours trade produce, firewood and a kind word of a weekend.

Wolf

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hope theres no stalkers on here

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Fuck how I miss london..."

lots of Italian run cafes??

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

"Fuck how I miss london...

lots of Italian run cafes??

Nahhh I am londoner born and bred.. I miss it and when someone describes it I miss it more..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I live on the outskirts of Leeds, a little market town (the market's bollocks though) it has far too many pubs for it's size, none of which I frequent. But generally I feel safe here whilst living alone, and everything is to hand, and Leeds is easy to get to if I want it. I like it here, it's quite pretty mostly.

I will probably be moving this year though closer to Leeds itself.

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By *ebzStarWoman
over a year ago

Notting

"Fuck how I miss london...

lots of Italian run cafes??

Nahhh I am londoner born and bred.. I miss it and when someone describes it I miss it more.. "

lived in london 14 years, missedit til last nov when went to a conference and tried to get the tube.......ugh

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Its mixture of urban with some green spaces mixed in. We like it but it not everyone's cup of tea. I suppose you tend to stop where you feel most comfortable.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Our flat is nice and thankfully we live in the old town but Stevenage is a bit of a dump. We rarely go out here, most of the pubs are chav infested holes and eating out is pretty much limited to Indian, Indian or Indian. That's the negatives. I lived in London until a few months back but work in Herts. The rent on a flat is cheaper than a room cost me in London, it's 20 minutes on a train to London and the last train back is pretty late so still can go out there regularly. There is a great network of footpaths and bridleways for running all within 5 minutes of our flat and a similr time to be out cycling on the countryside.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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Me Dad was born in 'ackney Wick and I was born in Rush Green, Dagenham.. so my sweet, this songs for you..

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner

That I love London so

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner

That I think of her wherever I go, oh

I get a funny feeling inside of me

When walking up and down

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner

That I love London Town!

God bless

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By *emima_puddlefuckCouple
over a year ago

hexham

i live in one of the most beautiful places possible, the view from the end of my street is right across the tyne valley, a patchwork of woodland, fields and drystone walls, watching the mist rise from the river in the morning is breath taking.

Behind our house is a wood, with stream where the boys can run wild. We have a lovely country pub 5 minutes away and about 50 houses in the village

Drawbacks, 3 mile round trip to the nearest shop, 10 miles round trip to the nearest supermarket and everyone thinks we are loaded

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By *emima_puddlefuckCouple
over a year ago

hexham

"Fuck how I miss london...

lots of Italian run cafes??

Nahhh I am londoner born and bred.. I miss it and when someone describes it I miss it more..

lived in london 14 years, missedit til last nov when went to a conference and tried to get the tube.......ugh"

had this conversation with Sir this week, we both used to love london, i went back a couple of years ago and it was like seeing beneath the make up of an old lover...the pollution, the dirt,the lack of joy in ppls faces...i could never see a reason to return

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By *iamondsmiles. OP Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

"i live in one of the most beautiful places possible, the view from the end of my street is right across the tyne valley, a patchwork of woodland, fields and drystone walls, watching the mist rise from the river in the morning is breath taking.

Behind our house is a wood, with stream where the boys can run wild. We have a lovely country pub 5 minutes away and about 50 houses in the village

Drawbacks, 3 mile round trip to the nearest shop, 10 miles round trip to the nearest supermarket and everyone thinks we are loaded

sounds idyll but people think im loaded as well when i say where i live lol

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By *emima_puddlefuckCouple
over a year ago

hexham

Behind our house is a wood, with stream where the boys can run wild. We have a lovely country pub 5 minutes away and about 50 houses in the village

Drawbacks, 3 mile round trip to the nearest shop, 10 miles round trip to the nearest supermarket and everyone thinks we are loaded

sounds idyll but people think im loaded as well when i say where i live lol"

dead annoying isnt it, i remember getting off the bus once and the driver going ohhh knobs hill...

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

the neighbours are nice

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By *iamondsmiles. OP Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Behind our house is a wood, with stream where the boys can run wild. We have a lovely country pub 5 minutes away and about 50 houses in the village

Drawbacks, 3 mile round trip to the nearest shop, 10 miles round trip to the nearest supermarket and everyone thinks we are loaded

sounds idyll but people think im loaded as well when i say where i live lol

dead annoying isnt it, i remember getting off the bus once and the driver going ohhh knobs hill...

Where jay lives his lane is known as millionaires row lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

nottingham!! 15 mins walk from the city center!! just far enought to keep the pissheads away but close emough for a great night out

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By *mumaWoman
over a year ago

Livingston

I live in a small ex-mining village. My house and street is only 5 years old, we all moved in at the same time.

I know most of my neighbours to say hello to, as we all moved in at the same time.

Lassie upstairs is now one of my best friends and has a key for mine and me for hers.

Wouldn't move fae where I am... hence Soapy moving here!!

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By *aucy3Couple
over a year ago

glasgow

i live in brigadoon.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I live in a three storey end of terrace on a very quiet street. The houses range from cottages, villas and new builds.

There's a small shop around the corner and a small parade of shops, petrol station ten minute walk away.

For London there's not a pub nearby...the nearest is just under a mile near the station.

It's very green and hilly where I am...buying a house on a hill wasn't my smartest move.

I've lived here nine years, there are 60 houses on my street I would recognise four people. Have a nodding acquaintance with them, haven't a clue who lives in the other houses or who drives what car. We all have fair size gardens so you font see kids playing in the street.

It was only during the riots I knew one of the villas across the road was a half way house for teens as there was a steady flow of high end cars with blacked out windows dropping of youth with boxes.

I still harbour the dream of moving out of London and living the rural ideal in Norfolk...sigh.

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By *ucsparkMan
over a year ago

dudley

I was born in a village in Somerset, moved to the Black Country when I was young. Moved to Cornwall when I was nineteen and then moved to Dudley in my late twenties and been back and forth ever since. Family joke everything I own has wheels on it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We live in the new forest in a village, there is lots of lovely places to walk our dog, when people visit me they often say how quiet it is, and all they can hear is the birds singing because everyone puts food out for them. The shops arent very good though, only two small food shops. We think we are lucky to live here, never any crime, gets busy in the summer though with all the campers.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

In a castle on a hill.........

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Erm quite difficult for me to decide where home is, so will give 2 options.

The apartment I have had with Mrs Bus is in a converted barn overlooking a woodland nature reserve on the outskirts of Manchester and Yorkshire.

Nearest shop of any sort is a (short)car drive away.

My bolt hole is a 1 bed flat above a shop on a busy main road into the City Centre about 3/4 miles out.

No shortage of shops of all kinds and on a once every 10 minutes bus route.

I tend to spend the weeknights in the bolthole and the weekends in the country.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Out in the sticks, nearest town 12 miles away, not good when you fancy a takeaway delivered.nearest small village shop is about a mile and a half away. Wouldn't live back in a town again. Can't beat getting out onto the tops with the quad, lots of places for outdoors naughties too..

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

I live in a flat in a block that looks like a house so people are surprised and always looking for the upstairs.

Its in a village that Sheffield has grown up to meet. I'm right at the top of a big hill ans can see the peak district from my bedroom window.

We have a co-op, a spar, a fruit and veg shop, a hardware shop, sandwich shop, salon and hairdressers, chemists and doctors. We also have a library.

It's the best of both, rural village but city centre just ten mins away

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

Oh! And the local milkman makes the most amazing ice cream and has an ice cream parlour and everything!

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By *emima_puddlefuckCouple
over a year ago

hexham

Behind our house is a wood, with stream where the boys can run wild. We have a lovely country pub 5 minutes away and about 50 houses in the village

Drawbacks, 3 mile round trip to the nearest shop, 10 miles round trip to the nearest supermarket and everyone thinks we are loaded

sounds idyll but people think im loaded as well when i say where i live lol

dead annoying isnt it, i remember getting off the bus once and the driver going ohhh knobs hill...

Where jay lives his lane is known as millionaires row lol"

It is hard for the kids though,luckily we have brought them u pnot to be materialistic, but when they have mates who have several foreignholidays a year and swimming pools i do wonder if they noice...luckily so far they dont seem to care.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"In a castle on a hill.........

That made me smile as when I left my husband he went around telling everyone I'd bought a palace on a hill...he wasn't bitter...much!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

its an old terrace house in a very quiet suburb of brum. its about 20min bus ride. we do have an asda,bank,post office,a few take aways and an off licence. im only 10mins to nearest small town. i love it wouldnt move.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A small village on the Staffs/Derbys border, very close to the major transport links, with a station running right through it. Consequently its largely a commuter village, though not particularly wealthy.

My house is tiny, but I hate moving house, so stick with it, plus I can see fields from the window and can be in the coutryside in less than 2 minutes. Great for walking my dog, not so great in inclement weather, getting places.

I couldn't live in a city again, I would miss the open faces and green spaces too much. I went to London for the weekend recently, and whilst I had a lovely time, I am a country girl at heart.

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By *heekychezzaWoman
over a year ago

warrington

In a small town (population around 21,000) halfway between Manchester and Liverpool (both about 25 minutes train journey). Quite a historical place mentioned in the Doomsday Book....a lookout post during Roman times, scene of a battle during the second English civil war (but can't remember when) and home of the first viaduct in England, built by Stephenson 1828-30 to cross the Sankey canal, which was also the first canal in England. The town isn't much....a small shopping area where the only "known" shop is a tiny Boots. We do have 2 out of the 4 main supermarkets and a ludicrous number of tanning parlours (nine last time I counted), hairdressers/barbers (numbering well into the teens).

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *andKCouple
over a year ago

Norfolk

"A small village on the Staffs/Derbys border, very close to the major transport links, with a station running right through it. Consequently its largely a commuter village, though not particularly wealthy.

I couldn't live in a city again, I would miss the open faces and green spaces too much. I went to London for the weekend recently, and whilst I had a lovely time, I am a country girl at heart.

we were in London Friday/Saturday and although we had a great time too we couldn't get out quick enough

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

It's nice here.

Urban.

Semis and Detacheds. Front gardens , back gardens.

Shops

Schools

Libraries - yes two

Bookshops, Cinema , Swimming Pools,Gyms

Work

Fields

Beach

Pubs, Clubs , Bars

Cars

It's quiet here

It's noisey here

So many people - lonely behind painted doors.

Lively, Noisy, Busy

Fussy

Friendly if you know someone

Cabbages and Kings live here

Such church going do gooders

The Dregs live that way down by the docks

Dog walkers,Shit on the pavements

Huge rubbish bins

Hospitals, Doctors, Convent

Hotels and railways

See a bus? We'd be amazed.

A marine lake, Several Parks,

Cars. So many cars. Too many to park.

Major roadways

Silent Avenues

A canal boundary to keep you away

Cemetries

Stonemasons

A bakery unique to the area

A Spa ' said laughingly' tho ive been and i like it.

A theatre

Birth place of Cherie Booth

Constituency of Shirley Williams

Home to footballers

Iron architecture c/o Anthony Gormley

An art gallery of sorts

The oldest Roman Catholic Village in Britain.

So many things to be glad of. Half an hour drive from Southport toward Liverpool.

So many things to be glad of Six and a half miles heading the right way OUT of Liverpool ....

Carry me out screaming.... I won't go

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By *iamondsmiles. OP Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Im envious of some on this thread, but im not a city person. Lived in Leicester when i was married and hated every second of it. Have the best of both worlds here (for me) a market town and its about 5 minutes walk to the countryside.

But i think we should all do a week at each others houses

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I live in a smallish town just outside Edinburgh.

I stay in the outskirts of said town so it's pretty quiet which is just how I like it.

And the beach is literally 100 ft from my front door,awesome view over the firth of forth from my living room window...bliss.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

musselborough ?

Or the other one where the ducks swim on the stream by the ice cream shop and there is a pub/lodge that dooes food ?

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By *ashful BazMan
over a year ago

poole dorset

I am lucky, I'm only ten minutes walk to the town centre, for the shops and pubs

and only 20 minutes from the sea when we feel like going out boating. Lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"musselborough ?

Or the other one where the ducks swim on the stream by the ice cream shop and there is a pub/lodge that dooes food ?"

Lucas ice cream shop is in musselburgh,you're thinking of the river esk where folks go to feed the ducks n swans.

lol,a few weeks ago I was walking along river esk at night and had to phone an ambulance for a crazy d*unk woman who was chest high n fully clothed in the river trying to make friends with the swans!!!!!She was well FUBAR'D lol!

But anyway no,I stay in the next town as you're travelling away from Edinburgh.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

It's lovely there. Fond memories for me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It's lovely there. Fond memories for me. "

Sure is,lots of great countryside in East Lothian.

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By *odareyouMan
over a year ago

not far from iceland,,,,,, tescos is nearer though :-) (near leeds)

I take the city I live in for granted, its when I visit other I appreciate it more, its changed over the years some for the better some worse it has a thriving night life, shops (designer to boutique, to an old Victorian market ) MichelIin starred restaurants to fish and chip shops , art galleries, libraries, theatres, comedy clubs, within an hours drive I have the east coast for sea and sand I have the glorious countryside of the yorkshire dales, with the fresh air and views that mother natures created all her own work, she didnt a paint brush,

I've everything I want ...well nearly can we have a better football team..

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By *adchickCouple
over a year ago

Cyprus

We live in Cheltenham, slap bang in the middle of the cotswolds........

There is no more to say really!

I do miss london though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm originally from South London and after a series of events have ended up living in Milton Keynes for the last 9 years. I think it's a great place. Am a 10 minute walk from the station and the main shopping centre. We have great open spaces and lakes and really good facilities. The people are friendly and I have lovely neighbours from all over the world. Yes, it's mainly new but if you take the time to look beyond the concrete we have lovely 17th century pubs and if you get in the car you are only 15 minutes from beautiful country side. Like most ex Londoner I do miss the city but to me this place is the next best thing.

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By *oddyWoman
over a year ago

between havant and chichester

im in a ikkle village10 miles from pompey

have 6 shops a drs and dentist

no pub thats 2 miles away

buses stop at 10pm and trains 11.30

10 min walk to a beach overlooking hayling and chi harbour and a army camp

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By *ittlemorespiceCouple
over a year ago

North Cornwall

Heaven

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Small rural village 8 miles from Truro. We're quite self sufficient, with a garage, chippie, post office, a pub, a social club, Indian resturant and "posh nosh" resturant.

We have an ex TV celeb living amongst us too

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