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Everything we wish someone had handed us on moving day — how to get on the village WhatsApp, the best dog walks, where to eat, what's nearby and why you'll like it here.
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Everything we wish someone had handed us on moving day — how to get on the village WhatsApp, the best dog walks, where to eat, what's nearby and why you'll like it here.
Everything we wish someone had handed us on moving day — the village WhatsApp, the best dog walks, where to eat, what's nearby and why you'll like it here.
Day-to-day Staverton happens on the village WhatsApp group — it's the quickest way to feel like a local. Ask to join and one of the volunteers who runs it will add you.
A volunteer checks each request before adding you, so it may take a day or two.
Thank you — your request is with the volunteers. You'll get a WhatsApp notification once you've been added.
The parish is laced with footpaths — the long-distance Jurassic Way runs right through the village — so most walks start from your own front door.
Round the green, up past St Mary's and back along the lanes. Twenty minutes, no stiles, and you'll meet half the village's dogs doing the same circuit before breakfast.
Follow the Jurassic Way waymarkers south out of the village and across the fields. In late April and May carry on into Badby Woods for the bluebells — worth the extra mile.
A flat, buggy-friendly circuit of the reservoir with a café at the visitor centre. Dogs on leads near the wildfowl, but plenty of open space elsewhere.
Park near the marina and follow the Grand Union towpath past the locks and boats. Level going in both directions, and a canalside pub when you turn around.
One pub you can walk to, and a handful of very good reasons to drive ten minutes. Booking ahead at weekends is wise everywhere round here.
Staverton's own pub, on the Daventry Road. Proper pub food, a good Sunday roast and the default venue for "shall we just go to the pub?" It's where you'll first put faces to WhatsApp names.
The hotel on the hill has a bar and restaurant open to non-residents — handy for breakfast meetings, coffee and cake after a walk, or when the family descends and your kitchen can't cope.
A thatched village inn below Badby Woods. Cosy in winter, a nice garden in summer, and a natural finish line for the bluebell walk.
Smart-ish dining pub in one of the prettiest villages in the county — the one with the Gunpowder Plot manor house. Good for birthdays and visiting parents.
Canalside pub by the locks on the Grand Union. Eat outside on a summer evening and watch the narrowboats negotiate the flight.
Tudor manor turned country-house hotel in a Capability Brown landscape. Afternoon tea here is the local move for anniversaries and impressing grandmothers.
Staverton sits just off the A425 in the far west of Northamptonshire, so you get a surprising choice of towns within an easy drive.
Your everyday town — supermarkets, the surgery-and-chemist run, leisure centre, and the country park. Market on the high street and most errands sorted in one trip.
The nearest mainline station — trains to London Euston in around 50 minutes, which is the commuter secret of living out here. Decent shopping and the birthplace of the game.
A handy small market town over the Warwickshire border — useful shops, cafés and a farmers' market without the traffic of anywhere bigger.
The big county town when you need it — larger shops, hospital, theatres (Royal & Derngate) and the football and rugby.
South down pretty lanes — Castle Quay shopping, the M40 for Oxford and London, and trains to Marylebone. Also: the cross, as in the nursery rhyme.
The day-out choice — Regency terraces, Jephson Gardens, proper coffee and better shopping. Warwick and Stratford-upon-Avon are just beyond it.
Summer fête on the green, monthly quiz night, Wednesday coffee mornings, harvest supper, cricket against Weedon — all run by neighbours, and all better with new faces. Check the diary.
The Jurassic Way long-distance path passes straight through the village, and field paths radiate in every direction. You can walk for an hour and cross one road.
Staverton Park's 18 holes start at the edge of the village. Even if you don't play, the driving range is a solid rainy-Saturday activity.
Staverton sits on a hilltop, so you get sunsets across open country and, on a clear night, more stars than you've seen since childhood. Bring a coat — hilltops are breezy.
Ironstone cottages, thatch, and St Mary's keeping time over it all. The church is open for services and the bells still ring — see service times.
Ten minutes to the A5 and M45, mainline trains from Rugby, and Birmingham or Oxford inside an hour. You live in a field-fringed village; your commute doesn't have to know that.