Guest 728- Registered: 24 Oct 2011
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#1
Hi all:
I am moving to the Dover area to live/work and am after some info about the following places:
West and East Langdon
Guston
Whitfield
St Margarets
Eythorne
Temple Ewell
Sheperdswell
Which areas would you avoid and which are nice?
Thanks.
Steve
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#2
Welcome Steve. All those places have their good and bad points, you really need to plod round them all to get an idea of what suits you best.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 705- Registered: 23 Sep 2010
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#3
Yes Steve-all lovely places on your list-it's up to you to choose!
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Guest 706- Registered: 25 Oct 2010
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#4
Shepherdswell is nice. Two pubs,a church,PO,Co-op and mainline station to Canterbury and London.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#5
And a bus every alternate blue moon when there is a z in the month.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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#6
But in Shepherdswell is Penny!!!
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#7
I take it you mean "Shepherdswell" ...then don't forget the miles of open countryside to wander around on, lovely woods, buzzards, East Kent Railway, local cafe, good pre and primary schools !
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#8
# 5.Spot on.You will need own transport.Competition in Shepherdswell is..........Spot the Bus!
#9
I think they all have there own charecter , it really depends what you are expecting from where you live, do you have transport ? want a shop? need a GP surgery on hand ? want a very rural location ? Its all so variable . My particular favourates are River and St Margarets but I have never lived in either and that may be very different to just passing through them
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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#10
aycliffe is nice.
it has 1 shop/po,4 buses an hour,and very close moterway links to dover and folkestone.
oh its a rural suburb.
Keith Sansum1
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#11
Steve,
welcome to the forum which hopefully you will find informative and varied in viewpoint.
the areas as my mucker peter says all has its own advantages/disadvantages
west and east langdon all are lovely places but public transport is not very good
but without doubt it is a lovely place to live
guston
realy is much the same as east/west langdon
views though are out of this world
whitfield
i find parts of whitfield are lovely, but others look a little run down
and of course steve you may well have read on this forum the councils proposals to build all over whitfield changng it from a village into a town within a town
if your happy in that kind of set up then maybe thats a choice for you
st margarets
lovely place scenery around the cliffs and gardens etc little cafe's lovely
worth looking at
eythorne
many residents will come from the old mining background, but it is in itself a nice place close to others villages
2 viillage halls
temple ewell
nice place many parts on the main bus route or you have kearsney railway station for an hourly service to london, or dover town.
close by river and kearsney abbey/russell gardens
Shepherdswell
lovely place, its correct bus service not so good
but hourly train service to london or dover town
realy steve it's about what are your needs(as peter says)
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schools, transport, quiet life, night life, etc etc
hope that helps
keith
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#12
.Steve,I am a parish Cllr in two of the Parishs above,and it has already been said They are all ok,but I think the best of them all is St- Margarets -at -Cliffe,it has it all,walks, the Sea, nice foodouts,only five miles from both towns of Dover and Deal,Somtimes when we get snow it does get cut off but only for a about 1hour but that does not happen alot,shopsOk,houses can cost more out there,it was my home some years ago and I would like to go back.But I also live in a nice parish it is called River ,we have a working water corn mill nice walks postoffice and shops,and ony a mile away from Dover,but for me it would have to be St Margarets
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Jan Higgins
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#14
A lot will depend on whether you want to live a very fairly rural life on the outskirts or do you want people and shop etc. I would guess that Langdon and Guston are the smallest villages the rest are all about the same. If you want ease of access into Dover or Canterbury by bus Temple Ewell is best.
The majority in Eyethorne are non mining families, a lot worked at Pfizer it is a very nice mixed community village, I used to live in pretty Tilmanstone which is near it.
As other forumites have said there is good and bad with all.
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Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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#15
Tilmanstone is a very pretty village, small but with a good community spirit BUT has no shop, so you need transport. It is between Eastry and Eythorne.
Buses hourly into Dover, Sandwich etc.
A good pub Plough & Harrow, with excellent meals, a very friendly WI, church services, village market, excellent safe playing field and village hall where all the events take place (village hall can be hired)
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#16
Welcome, Steve. You have named some really lovely villages! They all have their own characters and advantages but tend to share the lack-of-public-transport thing. If that isn't a factor then it is all, as everyone else has said, about the feel of the place. When we moved to Kent we rented a house for a couple of weeks and just went to lots of different places at lots of different times of the day and "felt" them. We were really lucky and fetched up in Dover in a lovely house, near to the grammar schools, far enough up and out to be pleasant but near enough to be able to shop and walk around. But we only really found out what we needed by traipsing about a bit.
Good luck with the search and welcome to our landscape!!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#17
some of those villages particularly the langdons look like they could be easily cut off in bad weather and a 4 x 4 vehicle would be needed for normal use.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#18
River as I said is nice and does not get cutoff,just takes more time in the snow to get in and out.
Guest 728- Registered: 24 Oct 2011
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#19
Thank you all for your replies.
I drive as does my wife. We would want a doctors and a post office.
We'd pretty much thought of St Margarets as our 1st choice.
In reality, how often does St Margarets get "cut off" in the bad weather? Apart from property prices St Margarets the only negative seems to be the chance of the bad weather "cutting you off".
East Kent is so much nicer than North London.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#20
Have a look at Coldred. Only 3/4 of a mile from S'well.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson