We live in UK’s ‘favourite’ village filled to brim with A-list celebs – & even home to farm shop loved by senior royal
RESIDENTS who live in what has been called the UK’s favourite village say it’s packed with A-list celebs and its farm shop is loved by a senior royal.
Kingham, in Chipping Norton, set in the beautiful Cotswold Hills is full of picturesque cottages and cosy village pubs.
The village green is bordered by gorgeous homes, with many of them dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries.
There’s also a local shop and a church.
Nearby there is the Daylesford Organic which has been dubbed the UK’s poshest farm shop and is said to be a favourite of Princess Eugenie.
In fact, the village is something of a foodie paradise with its pubs, the Kingham Plough and The Wild Rabbit, both highly regarded.
The farm owned by Blur bassist Alex James also plays host to the annual Big Feastival.
Daylesford is also thought to have been the inspiration for Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat Farm.
During the Covid lockdown’s Daylesford also delivered food hampers to Boris Johnson at Number 10.
If that wasn’t enough, it is also believed to be the go-to shop for the Beckhams and Ellie Goulding, who is thought to be a regular and live nearby.
According to The Telegraph: “There are many tell-tale signs of the Daylesford Diva. Its glamorous clientele includes Ellie Goulding, who rents on the Daylesford property.”
Goulding moved to the area in 2021 as the singer and her husband, the art dealer Casper Jopling, were cooped up in their Cotswold home during the pandemic.
Their six-bedroom £1.3million manor house was renovated to restore a barn to its original state.
Actor Eddie Redmayne is also said to have been spotted shopping there.
It comes as other chocolate box villages across the UK have fought for their ‘posh’ crown.
Residents in Shadwell, Yorkshire, revealed why it’s a hidden gem despite sky-high property prices.
THE POSHEST VILLAGES IN THE UK - AND THEIR AVERAGE HOUSE PRICE
Bedfordshire - Studham - £700,494
Berkshire – Sunningdale – £1,101,285
Buckinghamshire – Turville – £1,463,240
Cambridgeshire – Hemingford Abbots – £829,437
Cheshire – The Alderleys – £1,268,175
Clwd – Rowen – £363,214
Cornwall – Rock – £1,080,534
County Durham – Brancepeth – £390,238
Cumbria – Hawkshead – £460,001
Denbighshire – Llanarmon-yn-lal – £290,118
Derbyshire – Edensor – £670,644
Devon – South Pool – £999,000
Dorset – Studland – £972,831
East Lothian – Gullane – £356,615
East Riding of Yorkshire – Sutton upon Derwent – £409,071
East Sussex – Kingston-near-Lewes – £792,339
Essex – Ramsden Bellhouse – £1,017,722
Fife – Elie – £349,951
Gloucestershire – Bourton-on-the-hill – £799,348
Greater Manchester – Haigh – £257,020
Hampshire – Beaulieu – £1,524,287
Herefordshire – Bosbury – £452,954
Hertfordshire – Little Gaddesden – £1,333,501
Isle of Wight – Fishbourne – £509,356
Kent – Ightham – £836,260
Lancashire – Great Eccleston – £430,630
Leicestershire – Newtown Linford – £692,157
Lincolnshire – Uffington – £467,548
Merseyside – Hightown – £299,304
Monmouthshire – Shirenewton – £474,775
Norfolk – Burnham Market – £826,770
North Yorkshire – Kirkby Overblow – £698,656
Northamptonshire – Church with Chapel Brampton – £681,450
Northumberland – Warkworth – £289,459
Nottinghamshire – Colston Bassett – £786,955
Oxfordshire – Harpsden – £1,307,182
Pembrokeshire – Newgale and Roch – £219,555
Perthshire – Strathtay – £287,476
Rutland – Burley – £737,762
Shropshire – Cound – £454,587
Somerset – Wellow – £954,993
South Yorkshire – Cawthorne – £512,288
Staffordshire – Shenstone – £575,613
Stirling and Galkirk – Killearn – £315,927
Suffolk – Walberswick – £832,131
Surrey – Shackleford – £1,161,183
Tyne & Wear – Dinnington, £210,671
Warwickshire – Whichford – £901,115
West Glamorgan – Oxwich – £309,519
West Midlands – Barston – £571,202
West Sussex – The Lurgashall, Lodsworth and Lickfold Triangle – £1,055,250
West Yorkshire – Scarcroft – £630,325
Wiltshire – Avebury – £422,413
Worcestershire – Ombersley – £435,943
Locals say there is something that sets their little community head and shoulders above others in the area, even though the cost of living is high.
It manages to be a quaint rural village, while still providing excellent access to a major city, in the form of Leeds, just about six miles away.
Living there, you can enjoy the bird song and watch horses grazing as you stroll through the fields and farms, knowing you are just 20 minutes drive from the biggest shopping and social centre in the county.
The little village, which is mentioned in the Domesday Book from 1086, also boasts its own post office, library and pub, as well as one of Britain’s oldest fish and chip shops.
The Village Fish Shop has been feeding hungry locals since 1911 and sits in a cottage that dates back to the 1630s.
Meanwhile, homeowner living in a quaint village where the average house price is £1million explained why they love it.
Everyone who calls the picturesque Somerset town home says they’re big fans of the community – which comes together in times of need.
Elsewhere, defiant locals living in one of the UK’s poshest villages have insisted: “We’re no snobs”.
Newtown Linford in Leicestershire was recently named one of the poshest villages in Britain.
Among the richer residents are British billionaire Sir Bill Adderley, founder of Dunelm, and Jon Jorgensen, boss of one of the country’s biggest software companies.
Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers is also an ex-resident.