Latton is barely a village at all in the conventional sense — a scatter of houses, a handful of farms, and a population you could fit in a large barn. This is the kind of place where semi-detached and detached homes sit on quiet lanes, where you're more likely to pass a tractor than a bus, and where the median resident is pushing 53 rather than raising toddlers. It attracts people who have already done the commuting years and want space, quiet, and distance from anyone else's business. There's no rail station or meaningful public transport count here, so this isn't a place you fall into by accident on a commute — you choose it, and you almost certainly drive. Schooling locally leans towards the independent sector, with Cricklade Manor Prep and the smaller Meadow Bridge School both sitting in the area, though neither carries a published Ofsted rating in this data, so treat that as a conversation to have directly with the schools rather than a settled fact. Housing is dominated by semi-detached freehold homes — nine of the ten recent sales were freehold — and at a median of £435,000, against a Wiltshire figure of £315,000, buying in here means paying a real premium, some 38% above the county median, for the privilege of that quiet. Green space is present but modest in scale — under a hectare across two plots — so this isn't a place defined by sprawling parkland; it's more about the open countryside around the houses than any single named amenity. Day-to-day life here is self-directed: with no restaurants or listed food venues in the picture, a Saturday is built around driving somewhere else — Cricklade or further into Wiltshire — for shopping, a meal, or a GP appointment. That's the trade-off of a village this small: you get quiet and space, but you supply your own entertainment. The safety picture is worth sitting with for a moment because the raw numbers look alarming until you see the scale — the crime rate sits wildly above the Wiltshire average in percentage terms, but that's a function of a population of 24 against a very small handful of recorded incidents, mostly anti-social behaviour, over the year. The area grades out at A for safety and A for affordability relative to national patterns, with connectivity and nightlife the weaker C+ marks in an otherwise strong B+ overall picture — the quiet spine of this place is exactly what you'd expect: strong on space and security, thin on services and transport. This suits someone who has already decided that peace and land matter more than proximity to a station, a school run, or a restaurant scene, and who won't resent the drive that quiet requires.