Vastern is the kind of place you'd drive through and only half-notice — a scatter of stone and brick houses along a lane, no high street to speak of, no visible centre of gravity. It reads as a hamlet in the proper sense: a handful of homes surrounded by Wiltshire countryside rather than a place built around shops or a station. Whoever lives here has generally chosen the absence of things as much as anything present. There isn't enough on record here to speak with any confidence about schools, transport links, or crime in Vastern itself — no local school, station, or safety data has been returned for this specific spot, so it would be wrong to guess at the commute or the classroom your children might end up in. What can be said is that it sits within Wiltshire, where the typical house price benchmark runs a little above the national median, and the surrounding region skews older than the England-wide average — both consistent with the kind of quiet, settled, rural draw a hamlet like this tends to have. Given the gaps, the honest answer is that Vastern needs investigating on the ground rather than from a spreadsheet — walk the lane, check the nearest villages for their own school and transport picture, and treat this as a starting point rather than a verdict.