Detached houses behind hedges, gravel driveways, the odd horsebox parked up — this is the kind of village where the properties do the talking and there's barely a shopfront to distract you. With just over four hundred people and a median age past fifty, Normandy reads as settled rather than transient: a place people move to once, and stay. The practical picture here is a study in contrasts. Wanborough Rail Station gives you a line out, and with a top connectivity grade this is clearly a village built around the car and the commute rather than a high street you'd walk to. But the one school in the payload, Normandy Village School, carries an Inadequate Ofsted rating — a genuinely odd note in a village that otherwise scores solidly across health, environment and safety. If schooling is your priority, this is the fact to sit with before anything else; everything around it looks comfortable, but that grade doesn't average out. Housing here is unambiguous: detached freehold homes dominate the sales sample, and at a median of £725,000 against Guildford's borough-wide £480,000, Normandy sits roughly half as expensive again as its own parent district — this is one of the pricier pockets of an already expensive corner of the South East. A For Sale board on this street is almost always advertising a freehold detached house, not a flat or a leasehold flourish. Crime is low in absolute terms — under twenty incidents logged in the past year — though violence and anti-social behaviour make up more than half of what there is, a pattern common to quiet villages rather than a distinct local worry, and the trend is holding flat rather than moving either way. Green space is modest for a village of this size, a little over an acre spread across four sites, so this isn't a place defined by sprawling commons — more back gardens than public parkland. This suits someone who has already made peace with driving for their weekly shop and who values space and quiet over walkable amenities — a downsizing professional couple, or a family who can afford to look past the local primary and consider options further out. It's a harder sell if a strong local school is non-negotiable, because the one on your doorstep doesn't currently deliver that, whatever else the village gets right.