Welcome Sophia. I would really like to see your comments about this area and I am sure others would too. Please go ahead and post them here. It's very relevant to this thread.

I have noticed that if you track over to the water (English Channel in this case but it works for all locations) in map view, you will see the Google map date in this form '©2011 Google'.

I like this house. It is on the edge of Yetminster so has a rural feel, inviting interior and great garden.

Train it is.

Where are the other 60% advertised John? I thought that percentage would be much higher.

Adding:

just did a bit of research and came up with this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...-above-1m.html
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale.html

Even though Rightmove says it has over 800,000 properties for sale on it's home page, the link paragraph in Google says it has over 1 million properties for sale so the home page blurb may not be being updated.
All in all it looks quite close to having most properties for sale.

Very nice though a tad expensive chocolate box. It would be old home ground for me. Took my ballet exam in Northampton.

Sorry for all the posts... just catching up .

This is a great website with some fascinating links and ways to combat those huge industrialised farms seen in the video link posted by Pistolpete2 in the UK/Europe situation thread. I am posting it here because if you click on "Visit an organic farm... " in the picture it gives a list of organic farms by area of the UK.

http://www.soilassociation.org.uk/

I should be able to devote some time to visiting this one when in the Cotswolds at the end of this month.

http://www.daylesfordorganic.com/engine/shop/index.html

IF they can drag me away from the nearest gastropub for a second.

A rental from the same agent. Closer to Yeovil but in a (so it appears) nice development.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...-30609217.html

I notice that RNAS Yeovilton is only a few miles away but that is mainly Marine helicopters these days. Nice country! Nice Rental!

I zoomed out of a Rightmove image marked as 2011 Google and dragged my way over to St Lucia, zoomed in and found our house and it's the same image that has been there for over four years so I'm not sure what Imagery and Map Data 2011 means.

Cheers, Check this out in Little Billing. I'm working out how to split it in two (or even three) based upon the floor plan. The master ensuite is the same size as the master.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...-32517911.html

And I can "handle" that garden too!

Not sure about the Northampton bit though. I'm past pirouetting!

From wiki:

"There is a contrast of housing within the Billing ward with leafy large grand houses dotted around Great Billing and Little Billing keeping the traditional 'village feel' as when both were villages. On the other side there is Bellinge and Ecton Brook; estates built in the 1970s and 80s to house the overspill of London which are council estates. Bellinge in particular had suffered from serious problems in the 1990s and became one of the most crime ridden estates in England suffering from drug dealing and vandalism until local Council demolished a series of flats which stand on now Billingmead Square. The estate now is much improved and does not suffer the serious problems it had once encountered."

If price were the only issue:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...apital-england

I'm not sure what the insurance company would say about this location in spite of the listing stating that it was NOT impacted by the 2008 floods.

New listing:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...-19192269.html

What a great location by the river!

Perhaps it is only the copyright date.

This is all a bit close to Billing Aquadrome for me. I know that we went there as children and was taking a look at photos to jog my memory but it has expanded so much that I just don't recognise anywhere. Certainly there were no park homes there at the time. The traffic around that area could be quite horrendous in the summer.

http://www.billingaquadrome.com/

I could see doing a 6-month support worker role at this organic farm near Hay on Wye. £50/week + food and accomodation. Basically all the bills are paid so the £200/mo + my pension would all be disposable income. Sounds like an interesting place (I trained in Permaculture too) and I like the area:

http://www.primroseearthcentre.co.uk/index.html#Top