Property News · May 11, 2012

Let's move to Bewdley, Worcestershire


It cuts a fine period figureWhat’s going for it? “A beautiful Georgian town,” the tourist blurbs go, as if the residents still went round in bonnets and barouche landaus. Indeed, Bewdley, or Beau Lieu in a former life, cuts a fine period figure, well supplied on its narrow wooded valley with Georgian cottages, town houses and the pretty St Anne’s Church, the very image of civilisation in the provinces. Though its 18th-century civic improvers were, in the end, no match for nature, in the figure of local rogue, the river Severn. While earlier generations stuck to its upper banks – the High Street is literally that – the Georgians decided to take on and tame the river, with promenades and plum properties which in recent years, 2000 being the worst, take a regular dousing. Maybe modern-day improvers will have better luck with new flood defences. Should The Big One happen, the humboldt penguins in the West Midland Safari Park on the edge of town might make a break for freedom, while the humans, ostriches and Bengal tigers, whose roar echoes exotically above the rooftops, tread water. Nature will be contained only so far.The case against Do your flood research: there’s often a reason why this or that property is a bargain. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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