Property News · February 28, 2014

Let's move to Malmesbury, Wiltshire


It’s an ancient town kept vibrant by Womad and DysonWhat’s going for it? This is a very, very old place. And, like a very, very old person, you can see its past life etched on its skin and in the brightness of its eyes. Malmesbury has very bright eyes and a vigorously pumping heart. They have skateboarding festivals in the abbey! Its fields shimmy to Womad. This ancient place – the oldest borough in England, whose streets echo with the ghosts of Athelstans, Aldhelms and Arthurs – is kept perky today by hand driers and vacuum cleaners, pumping it full of young, ambitious blood coursing towards the Dyson HQ. But even without its modern lord of the manor, Sir James, Malmesbury would probably be OK. It’s on the cusp of the Cotswolds, high on a hill, in the curls of rival river Avons, and while never a tourist trap (too far from the train), it’s too beautiful to wither. Its high street is top-notch, not wall-to-wall candle shops but useful shops – bike repairers, department store HJ Knee – in beautiful real estate, all crooked stone cottages, Georgian town houses studded with gothic arches, the ghost of who-knows-what building from times long past.The case against Once people come, they stay, so there’s not much on the market, and what there is is quite expensive. A little inaccessible, but that’s what has kept it so beautiful. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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