Brendon sits deep in Exmoor country, the kind of place where the lanes narrow to a single track and the moor presses right up against the hedgerows. There's no high street to speak of, no visible centre of commerce — this is a hamlet in the proper sense, a scatter of stone and cob buildings set into the combe of the East Lyn valley, and the people you'd meet here are the ones who've chosen distance from anything resembling a town on purpose. I can't give you the sort of detail I'd normally reach for — there's no local school, station, or crime figure logged for Brendon itself, and no read on its housing market beyond the wider district. What I can tell you is where it sits in that wider picture: Torridge, the district Brendon belongs to, has a median house price around £265,000, itself below the South West regional median of £305,000 and the national median of £281,000. So this a part of the country that remains, on paper, more affordable than the region around it — though a hamlet like Brendon, prized for its isolation and its moorland setting, rarely behaves like the district average when a property does come up for sale. Day-to-day life here isn't really a matter of restaurants or leisure centres — it's the moor itself, the walking, the rivers, the quiet. Exmoor shapes the rhythm of the place far more than any amenity list could. That's the trade you're making: space, silence, and landscape in exchange for having to drive for most practical things, schooling included. This suits someone who wants distance from town life and means it — not a compromise on the way to somewhere else, but the destination itself. If you need shops, schools, or a station within easy reach, Brendon will frustrate you. If what you want is genuine remoteness on Exmoor, with everything that implies about self-sufficiency, it has few real rivals.