The stone circles get the tourists, but the village around them is quieter than that suggests: a scatter of period houses, a handful of working farms, and not much passing traffic beyond people looking for the megaliths. There's no high street to speak of, and that's the point — this is a place people move to for the setting, not the amenities. Housing here is old and mostly owned outright: the sales sample is small but tilts toward terraced and semi-detached houses on freehold titles, which is what you'd expect of a village that hasn't seen a new-build in years. A median sale price around £300,000 sits well below both the regional figure and what you'd pay across Bath and North East Somerset generally — roughly a quarter cheaper than the wider authority's median — though the flip side is a thin market: five sales isn't a lot to read a trend from, and you may wait for the right house rather than choose from a shelf of them. Council tax at Band D runs close to the national average, nothing untoward there. The one school, Stanton Drew Primary, is a small academy with 57 pupils — the kind of school where your child's teacher will know their name by the second week, though its size means limited choice if it isn't the right fit. There isn't much green space by the numbers — just a few small pockets rather than a big park — but that undersells the actual experience of living somewhere surrounded by open farmland and the standing stones themselves, which function as the closest thing to a village green. There's no cluster of restaurants or cafés to fall back on; day-to-day life here means driving to Bristol or Bath for shopping, socialising, or a proper night out, and the eight-per-thousand population density confirms how sparse the immediate area is. Full-fibre broadband reaches most premises, which matters more than it once did if you're working from home rather than commuting daily. Crime is low in absolute terms — 42 incidents across a full year in a village of under 700 people — but worth reading carefully: the local rate sits meaningfully higher than the wider Bath and North East Somerset average, and violence and sexual offences account for four in ten of all recorded crimes, an unusual concentration for somewhere this small and otherwise settled. It's the one grade that doesn't match the rest of the picture, and worth a conversation with neighbours rather than a reason to rule the place out on its own. The median age near 50 tells its own story: this suits people past the school-run years, drawn to space, quiet, and a genuine sense of history on the doorstep, more than those wanting bars, buses, or bustle within reach.