Overview

• The Wiltshire village is repeatedly described as the prettiest in England, with honey-coloured cottages beside the By Brook and a setting about 10 miles from Bath.
• The 2021 census recorded 356 residents, underscoring a small-community feel that aligns with its low-key tourism footprint.
• No new homes have been built in the historic core since around 1600, according to local reporting, helping keep the streetscape largely unchanged.
• Productions from Doctor Dolittle and War Horse to Apple TV+'s Slow Horses, where it stood in as “Upshott,” have used the village as a filming location.
• Nearby Castle Combe Circuit, created on a former RAF airfield, has hosted motorsport events since 1950, contrasting with the village’s quiet, uncommercial centre of pubs, a medieval Market Cross, and St Andrew’s Church with a 15th-century bell-clock.