Broad Town

Broad Town is the kind of place where the houses thin out and the hedgerows take over — a scatter of stone and brick around a small primary school, with none of the retail parks or high street clutter that mark a larger settlement. With a population that barely registers on a map and density a fraction of the national average, this is open Wiltshire countryside living, not village-as-commuter-suburb.

The one school in the area, Broad Town Church of England Primary, is a small voluntary controlled school of around 55 pupils — the kind of place where your child's teacher will know them by name, though there's no Ofsted rating on record to lean on. There's no rail station listed here either, so this isn't a place to plan around a platform and a season ticket; if you work away from home, you're doing it by car. The median age of 51 tells you plainly who's chosen this life already: settled, established households rather than young families arriving in a hurry. Housing sits mostly freehold, with detached, semi-detached, and terraced homes each represented in the small sample of sales — a mix that says self-built or long-owned rather than developer estate, and a median sale price of £382,500, comfortably above both the Wiltshire and national norms.

Green space here is intimate rather than expansive — around 1.4 hectares across two plots, walking-field-and-verge territory rather than parkland — and with no restaurants or named venues on record, evenings out mean driving to somewhere else. What Broad Town offers instead is quiet: the crime figures are so low in absolute terms that the percentage breakdowns (violence and sexual offences topping the list at 42.5% of a very small total) reflect a handful of incidents rather than a pattern to worry over, and the area's own safety grade — an A against a national B+ baseline — backs that up. Full-fibre broadband reaches two-thirds of properties, useful if you're working from home, which in a village like this you probably will be.