Stour Row is the sort of place where the houses do the talking: detached stone and brick sitting on their own ground, no terraces to speak of, and nothing new built in years. You won't find a parade of shops or a pub crowd spilling onto a pavement — this is a scatter of homes in open country, and the emptiness of the lanes is the first thing you notice. There's no rail station listed for the village itself, and with only a couple of transport stops recorded, this is a place you reach by car, not commute from by train. The one school on record, Stower Provost Community School, is a small community primary with under a hundred pupils — the kind of school where your child is a name, not a number, though there's no Ofsted rating attached to judge it by. Property here runs almost entirely detached and freehold — eight sales in the sample, seven of them detached houses — with a median price around £461,000, comfortably above both the Dorset and national norms. A board on this street reads "family house, own land, cash buyer welcome," not "starter home." Green space is modest in raw terms — two plots covering a quarter of a hectare — but that undersells it: at this population density, fifty people per square kilometre against a national average nearer 2,600, the whole village functions as your garden. There's no restaurant or pub named in the data, so eating out means driving to a neighbouring town rather than walking down the road. Broadband is solid enough for remote work, with full-fibre reaching seven in ten properties. The median age of 56 tells you who's actually here: settled, established households rather than young families chasing a starter home, which tracks with the schools grade sitting a touch below the rest of the picture — the one out-of-step note in an otherwise strong set of marks. That crime figure needs unpacking rather than repeating: with a population of 22, the raw count of incidents produces a comparison to Dorset's crime rate that looks alarming as a percentage but is really a function of tiny numbers meeting a wide-area benchmark — this is not a place with a crime problem, it's a place with almost no people. Income sits high nationally (decile 9), deprivation low (decile 6), and the overall grade lands at the top of the scale. This suits someone who wants space, quiet, and a settled community over convenience — and who's made peace with driving for the school run, the shop, and the station.