Streatley sits where the Thames cuts through the Chilterns, and the houses along the river make the point before you do: flint and brick fronts, a scatter of period detached homes, the kind of village where the parked cars are older-model estates rather than anything flashy. It attracts people who have already done the London years and are done with them — the median age here is nearly 48, a decade above the national figure, and this is not a place that feels aimed at anyone starting out. There's one school in the village, Streatley C.E. Voluntary Controlled, a small primary with under a hundred pupils — the kind of school where the head knows every child's name, though no Ofsted grade is on record to confirm the reputation that size alone suggests. Housing is overwhelmingly freehold, split between terraced cottages and detached houses, and a For Sale board here is talking to a particular buyer: someone who can find £692,250 as a median, well above the £425,000 typical of South Oxfordshire around it, and who isn't especially bothered about a rail link. There are stops for buses, eight of them logged, but no station in the village itself — this is a drive-first sort of place, or a spot for those working from home rather than commuting to it daily. The Thames path and the surrounding green space (six named areas totalling 73 hectares) set the actual rhythm of life here more than any high street does — this is a walk-the-dog-by-the-river, cycle-into-the-Chilterns kind of place, and the grade for environment sits at the very top of the scale, well above what you'd find in most of England. Safety follows the same pattern: also top-tier, and worth pausing on, because the raw crime figures (20 incidents across a year, a third of them violence and sexual offences) sound more alarming written down than they feel lived in a village of fewer than 800 people — one bad month can swing a share percentage a long way in a population this small. Health provision and affordability sit a notch lower than everything else, graded around average rather than exceptional, which is the one place where the pattern breaks: you're buying into the scenery and the quiet, not into convenience. This suits people who've already made peace with trading proximity for space and calm — retirees, remote workers, second-home money. It's a harder sell if you need a fast commute or want a wide school choice for older children; the village gives you neither. What it gives instead is a settled, well-off corner of the Chilterns where the biggest disruption to your week is likely to be a delivery van struggling down a lane built for something narrower.