Old Romney is the kind of place where a farmhouse and a converted barn count as neighbours, and the marsh does more to shape daily life than any road sign. With just over four hundred people spread thinly across the land, this is Romney Marsh proper — flat, quiet, and built for those who want distance from things rather than proximity to them. The practical picture here needs some translation. There's a station at Burmarsh Road, but it belongs to the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway — a narrow-gauge line built for the marsh and its visitors, not a commuter service into anywhere. If you work from home, or you've already made peace with driving to Ashford or Folkestone for the mainline, that's less of a problem; if you're hoping to swap a season ticket for village life, it's the wrong sort of railway. The median age of 49 tells you who's actually settled here — this isn't a place filling up with young families chasing school catchments, it's one where people have arrived after deciding what they want, not before. Green space is scarce on paper — two plots totalling well under a hectare — but that number undersells a village surrounded by open marsh rather than fenced parkland; you don't need a formal green when the whole landscape functions as one. Eating out and organised activity are similarly not the draw; this is a place you furnish your own weekends in, walking the sea wall or driving to Rye or New Romney for a proper high street. On safety, the pattern is worth a second look: crime sits low in absolute terms and the area scores solidly overall, yet violence and sexual offences make up nearly four in ten of the incidents recorded — likely a handful of cases in a small population rather than a pattern of daily unease, but it's the one figure that jars against an otherwise calm village. Housing is where the numbers say the most. Nine sales in the sample were freehold, split between detached and semi-detached homes, with a median price of £438,000 — comfortably above the national figure and over 40% above the wider Folkestone and Hythe district. That premium buys land and marsh views rather than square footage or connectivity; income and deprivation deciles both sit at 3, a reminder that this is a village of modest local earnings alongside houses priced for buyers bringing money in from elsewhere. Full-fibre broadband reaches most properties, which matters more than any train line if your work travels down a cable rather than a railway. This suits someone who wants isolation with good WiFi and doesn't mind driving for groceries, company, or a train — not someone counting on a five-minute walk to a platform or a primary school gate.