Duns Tew is stone cottages and long gravel drives, the kind of place where a detached house is the default rather than the exception and you're more likely to pass a Land Rover than a bus. With a population in the dozens and density nowhere near the national average, this is genuinely rural Oxfordshire, sitting inside Cherwell district in the South East. The numbers back up the visual: ten of the thirteen recent sales here were detached homes, every one of them freehold, and the median sale price of £673,000 puts this well above both the national median and the wider Cherwell figure (itself only 95% of what Duns Tew commands). A detached house locally sells for £717,500 against a national detached median of £420,000 — this is not a stretch-to-afford village, it's an already-arrived one, reflected in an income decile of 10 and an affordability grade that's strong only because incomes here comfortably cover the premium. Schooling is thin on the ground within the payload, but Dr Radcliffe's Church of England Primary, rated Good, is the kind of solid academy-converter school that reassures rather than dazzles. With a median age of 50, this reads less like a young family's commuter base and more like a settled, established community — people who've moved here rather than grown up here. Green space is modest in raw hectares but present across four separate plots, enough for a dog walk before the school run rather than a day out. There isn't a restaurant scene to speak of in what's recorded here, so evenings out mean driving rather than strolling, which is the honest trade-off of a village this size. Broadband tells a more modern story than the cottages suggest — full fibre reaches over three-quarters of properties, so working from one of those stone houses is entirely realistic. Safety is where the quiet surprise sits: with only a handful of incidents logged in the past year and public order offences the single largest slice, the area's overall grade lands at a strong B+, and the trend is flat rather than worsening — reassuring, if unremarkable, stability. The one grade that doesn't match the rest is housing, at C+, a reminder that "expensive" and "high-quality-scored" aren't always the same thing in the data, and worth a conversation with a surveyor rather than a red flag on its own. This suits someone who has already made their money and wants space, quiet, and stone walls rather than street life — a downsizing professional, a retired couple, or a remote worker who values a fast broadband line over a five-minute walk to a café. It will disappoint anyone expecting village amenities on the doorstep or hoping to buy in below the regional curve; here, you're paying for scarcity and stillness, not convenience.