Detached houses behind hedgerows, gravel drives, the odd converted barn — Cornworthy reads as a village built for people who already own somewhere else first. There's no high street to speak of, just the shape of a place that has settled into itself, with a median age nudging 55 and a population under 500 spread thinly across the parish. The practical picture here needs a bit of translating. Transport gets a strong grade despite there being only a handful of stops and no rail station named in the area itself, which tells you this is a driving village — the grade likely reflects how easily you can get out, not frequency of buses to your door. Broadband is patchier than you'd expect for the price bracket, with just over half of homes on full fibre, so anyone working from home should check the line before assuming rural means slow. Schooling is thin on the ground too: Blackawton Primary School is the one sampled option, an academy converter with a few hundred pupils, and you're better off treating this as a village where families already have a school sorted rather than one where you'd move for the classroom. Cornworthy's real trade is space and quiet, and the numbers back that instinct up: 82 hectares of green space across four sites for fewer than 500 residents is a generous ratio, well above both the regional and national norm, and it's the kind of place where a weekend means a walk rather than a restaurant booking — there's no dining scene logged here worth naming, so eating out means driving to find it. On safety, the picture is a little more layered than the headline grade suggests. The overall safety grade is strong, but the trend is marked as worsening, and the raw crime count — a dozen incidents in the past year, dominated by violence and sexual offences — is small enough that a couple of extra cases can swing the percentages hard. In a village this size, that's more statistical noise than a pattern to fear, but it's worth knowing the direction rather than just the letter. Housing tells its own story. Every recorded sale here was freehold, dominated by detached houses, with a median sale price of £565,000 — comfortably above both the South Hams and national medians, sitting in the top decile of prices nationally. That's the sentence a For Sale board is really writing: this is a village of outright ownership and established money, not first rungs or new-builds, since none of the recent sales were newly built at all. Set against South Hams as a whole, Cornworthy runs noticeably pricier, which fits a place with generous plots and few options rather than volume housing. Put together, Cornworthy suits people who've already done the commuting years and want land, quiet and a long view rather than convenience on tap. It asks you to trade a nearby high street and reliable fibre for hedgerows and 82 hectares of green space on your doorstep — a fair swap for some, a regret for anyone who still needs the buzz of choice close by.