Stone cottages, a wide market square that still remembers its livestock-fair days, and a pace of life set by people who've mostly stopped commuting rather than started it — that's the first impression Corby Glen gives you. This is a village of 15 households in the strict sense the data counts, tucked into South Kesteven, and it reads like it: quiet lanes, a median age over 54, and none of the churn of a town centre. There's no rail station in the picture here, so this isn't a place you move to for a fast line into a city — if you work from Grantham or Peterborough, you're driving. What you get instead is schooling that punches above its weight for a place this size: Corby Glen Community Primary School is rated Good, and the village sits within reach of an Outstanding-rated primary beyond it, which matters more than the village's own two-school count suggests. Housing here is overwhelmingly detached and freehold — of the recent sales sampled, ten of seventeen were detached houses, all freehold — so a For Sale board on one of these streets is almost always advertising a family home with land, not a starter flat. At a median of £300,000, it's priced above both the South Kesteven typical (a 15% premium on the district) and the East Midlands median, though still some way under the national figure for detached homes specifically. Green space here isn't a park you visit so much as a setting you live inside — nine separate pockets of it, modest in total hectares but woven through a village that never feels built-up (density is a fraction of the regional average). There's no restaurant count or named venue in the record to suggest a dining-out scene, and that fits the pattern: this is a place for the pub after a walk, not a Saturday of browsing. Healthcare and connectivity both grade solidly here — full fibre reaches most premises — so working from home is realistic even if the social offer is thin. The crime picture is where you should read carefully: the headline grade is A, safer in tone than you'd expect, but violence and sexual offences still account for over a third of the (very small) annual count, with anti-social behaviour close behind — the kind of skew you get in a small population where a handful of incidents move the percentages a long way. This suits people who've already decided that space, quiet, and a strong local school outrank a short commute and a lively high street — retirees, established families with a car each, or remote workers who don't need to be anywhere by nine. If you need a station platform or a choice of restaurants within your evening, Corby Glen will feel like a decision you have to keep re-justifying.