Burrow

Burrow doesn't really have a high street in any conventional sense — this is scattered, low-density Devon countryside, detached houses on generous plots, hedgerows rather than pavements, and a population so thin that the place reads more like a cluster of farms and lanes than a village centre. It attracts people who've made a deliberate choice to trade convenience for space and quiet.

The numbers back up that impression: population density here is a fraction of the national average, and the median age of just under 49 tells you this is a settled, older community rather than a first-rung-of-the-ladder spot. Property sales are dominated by detached freehold homes, with a median price around £380,000 — comfortably above both the national figure and East Devon as a whole, where prices here sit roughly a fifth higher than the district average. A board outside one of these houses is advertising space, privacy, and permanence, not a quick flip. For schooling, Broadclyst Community Primary carries an Outstanding rating, and Clyst Hydon Primary — smaller, rated Good — gives families a second, more intimate option; between them they suggest this is a place where people are happy to put down roots for their children's education even if the commute to work is a longer proposition than in town.

Day-to-day life here is quiet almost by definition — with so few residents, there's no sense of a bustling calendar of events, and you won't find restaurant counts or named parks doing much work in a place like this. What you get instead is green space by default: the countryside itself is the amenity. This is the kind of area where a weekend is shaped by the garden, a walk down the lane, or a drive to somewhere larger for shopping and eating out, rather than anything on the doorstep.