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Lockdown has supercharged property prices in the countryside and ‘designer towns’ are creating a buzz with buyers.

Here are the newest ‘it towns' for 2021, take a look before the celebs move in and prices rise

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📍Stamford, Lincolnshire

🏡Average house price: £298,245

Stamford is an up and coming town with a sense of history.

The 1950s historian WG Hoskins wrote: “If there is a more beautiful town in the whole of England then I am yet to see it”
📍Pershore, Worcestershire

🏡Average house price: £232,428

⛪️Pershore is famed for its Georgian architecture and medieval abbey

“The typical buyers are Cotswoldians looking to downsize or upsize, and Birmingham and London commuters"
📍Ludlow, Shropshire

🏡Average house price: £245,974

Ludlow was a Norman town that began with the castle built in 1086 to defend the Welsh border.

🏰The town is based around the market square, church and castle with Georgian townhouses lining the wide medieval streets
📍Totnes, Devon

🏡Average house price: £296,583

🛍️Totnes has a vibrant community, with a lot of independent shops along the high street

“This is the dream and I pinch myself every time we walk down to the creek"
📍Liphook, East Hampshire

🏡Average house price: £414,100

🛤️Liphook offers good private and state schools and is commutable to London

It offers pubs and restaurants, a new art-house cinema and an old post office which has been turned into an architect’s studio
📍Pittenweem, Fife

🏡 Average house price: £181,824

Pittenweem has an arts-led high street and boasts Victorian fishermen’s cottages.

🎣The local market is renowned for its shellfish, with the wider area catering for nature-lovers as you can spy puffins up the coastline
📍Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex

🏡Average house price: £349,330

🏖️Shoreham-by-Sea is known for its modern beach villas.

The centre of Shoreham is an ancient fishing village of narrow streets flanked with flint-clad cottages. A fleet of vibrant houseboats line the River Adur
📍Porthcawl, South Glamorgan

🏡Average house price: £232,374

⛳️ Porthcawl has the surfing beach of Rest Bay and the Royal Porthcawl golf course. The Links is the conversion of a Grade II building into 71 apartments.

🚉The town is less than 30 minutes from Cardiff
📍Chipping Campden, Oxfordshire

🏡Average house price: £542,771

🥘Chipping Campden has good schools, is home to popular restaurant Michael’s Mediterranean and offers superfast broadband.

“The views are incredible and on a clear day you can see right across the Cotswolds"
📍Great Massingham, Norfolk

🏡Average house price: £241,275

🏞️Great Massingham has won many EDP Pride in Norfolk gongs and is built around a large green with several ponds.

Massingham Stores and the Cartshed Tearoom delivered goods to locals during lockdown
📍Stock, Essex

🏡Average house price: £861,541

🏏Stock has four quaint pubs including the Hoop and the Bear Inn, a village store, a small primary school, a cricket green, vineyard and a windmill.

It is six miles from Chelmsford and less than three from Billericay ­station
📍Amersham, Buckinghamshire

🏡Average house price: £694,683

🏞️Amersham is near the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is on the Metropolitan Line.

👩‍🍳It has good grammar schools and a Michelin-starred restaurant
📍Beeston, Nottinghamshire

🏡Average house price: £345,942

🚋Beeston has a tram service, new bus station and leisure centre. It’s 3 miles from the city centre and south of the University of Nottingham campus.

“There are some lovely roads of Victorian and Edwardian houses"
📍Maidenhead, Berkshire

🏡Average house price: £502,628

Maidenhead is on the Thames and in touching distance of the Chilterns.

🚉 When Crossrail arrives the service will take 19 minutes to Paddington.

“The draw is countryside living and good schools"
📍Colney Heath, Hertfordshire

🏡Average house price: £516,707

Colney Heath offers the amenities of a city within touching distance of the Hertfordshire countryside.

🌳“Heartwood Forest on the outskirts of St Albans is a little oasis loved by the local community"
📍Stockbridge, Hampshire

🏡Average house price: £562,158

Nestled between Salisbury and the south coast, this small town has speciality food stores, gourmet delis and boutiques.

🍖“People come from miles around to visit one of the oldest butchers in the area”
📍Dorking, Surrey

🏡Average house price: £451,898

Nestled in the Surrey Hills, Dorking is a cheaper option than nearby Reigate.

🚲It is in the heart of cycling country with the chalk downs perfect for family rides
📍Malton, North Yorkshire

🏡Average house price: £238,089

🍽️Malton is an up and coming town with fantastic food.

40,000 people attended the annual Malton Food Lovers’ Festival in 2019
📍Frome, Somerset

🏡Average house price: £299,942

Frome is one of the “coolest” destinations for people making the move out of London or Bristol.

🌳There is a range of property types from terraced cottages to detached Georgian townhouses and large Victorian villas
📍Mobberley, Cheshire

🏡Average house price: £342,484

💸Mobberley and presents more value for money than Cheshire’s “designer lifestyle” hotspots

The Mobberley scene is pubs and farm shops with the Waugh Brow Farm Shop selling local produce
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