Our town was famous for TOILETS - now it's the hippest place in the Cotswolds

Residents successful a municipality celebrated for being the birthplace of the modern TOILET are feeling flush for having the hippest postcode successful the Cotswolds.

Shipston-on-Stour successful Warwickshire sits successful the mediate of the highly sought aft CV36 postcode.

It is located conscionable 10 miles northbound of posh Chipping Norton – location to celebrities including Jeremy Clarkson and David and Victoria Beckham.

Estate agents person reported that CV36 is enjoying a spot roar with prices reaching 40 per cent higher than neighbouring areas.

The mean terms of a household location is astir £350,000 but is inactive cheaper than equivalent properties successful adjacent Cirencester and Moreton-on-Marsh wherever four-bed houses typically fetch £500,000.

Despite rising prices, request is soaring for properties successful Shipston-on-Stour arsenic radical spot it arsenic a much affordable mode to unrecorded successful the Cotswolds.

Estate cause Amy Nicholson, of Sheldon Bosley Knight, said moving from location has fixed buyers much state to unrecorded wherever they want.

She said: “We’re lone a fewer minutes from the main Cotswold towns but our houses are cheaper.

“Some of the villages adjacent person premium prices successful caller years truthful radical are looking astir for areas inactive successful CV36 but much affordable.

“Covid and the stamp work brought a batch radical here.

“Shipston-on-Stour isn't arsenic engaged oregon arsenic touristy arsenic Moreton-in-Marsh, but we are getting much popular.

“The municipality is little engaged than different Cotswold towns and radical unrecorded astatine a bully pace.

“People are present decently remotely moving and tin unrecorded wherever they want. They tin unrecorded present and person a bully manner here.”

Savvy locals who person lived successful the municipality for galore years are besides keen to currency successful with immoderate houses selling “in 2 minutes”.

Anne Wagstaff, 73, has seen the worth of her location leap much than £120,000 since she bought it 9 years ago.

The gran-of-eight said: “We’re conscionable putting it up connected the market.

“I privation to determination a small northbound of Stratford truthful I’m adjacent my children

“In my roadworthy we’ve had 2 caller radical but we lone person 8 houses. We had 1 household determination successful from London.

“Most radical travel and enactment and emotion the place.

“I was rather amazed with the valuation of my location erstwhile they gave it us.

“We’ve got a three-bed detached and it’s up for offers implicit £400,000.

“We bought it for £280,000 9 years agone and I ne'er imagined it would spell up truthful acold successful that time.

“The property agents said the marketplace was picking up.”

Anne, who volunteers successful a section foundation shop, said she believes the municipality is charismatic to families portion enjoying bully transport links to London.

She added: “You tin get the bid adjacent consecutive to London and the municipality itself has everything you need.

“It’s got small bits of everything here. Cafés, butchers, I deliberation it’s charismatic for young families from each over.

“We emotion a thrust down to the Cotswolds, it’s beauteous astir here. You can’t bushed that.”

Homeowner Andrew Godding, 45, moved into his £300,000 detached spot 8 years agone but has nary plans to determination anytime soon.

He said: “Shipston is small known different than being the location of Thomas Crapper and

the archetypal flushing toilet truthful astir apt gets overlooked arsenic a spot to unrecorded and rise a family.

“It’s beauteous huffy that I person a bully sized location but conscionable 10 miles distant successful Chipping Norton it would astir apt outgo different £50,000 oregon possibly £100,000.

“People wage for the postcode and it’s large successful 1 consciousness than CV36 is present being recognised arsenic a trendy spot to unrecorded but these benignant of things tin beryllium fads.

“I bash ever deliberation we’re surviving a Cotswold manner without paying silly Cotswold prices.”

Located successful betwixt the M5 and M40 motorways besides means hybrid oregon full-time bureau tin easy commute to London oregon Oxford.

The nearest railway presumption is besides six miles distant successful Moreton-in-Marsh wherever commuters tin question to London successful conscionable 2 hours.

Business proprietor Andrew Bastock has tally A Touch of Dust antiques store successful the municipality for 29 years.

He said: “If you spell down to Oxford you’re going to beryllium paying Oxford prices for an Oxford postcode.

“It’s astir apt a £50,000 oregon £60,000 cheaper connected the aforesaid houses up here.

“There are beauteous bully obstruction links to London arsenic good which is important for radical for work.

“People travel present for possibly a vacation oregon a abbreviated interruption and conscionable autumn for the place.

“People find the municipality charming, we’re inactive a 1930s municipality astatine heart. We speech to each different and it has that feel.

“If I keeled implicit this afternoon, each my banal would beryllium enactment wrong my shop.

“That’s the benignant of municipality this is. The beauteous happening astir the municipality is each the autarkic shops.

“We’re not inundated with Costas and Starbucks.

“They’ve built 2 caller lodging estates astatine the apical of the road. We don’t person a immense retired of municipality buying promenade either.

“I don’t deliberation prices person accrued that overmuch yet but arsenic soon arsenic houses travel onto the marketplace they’re gone wrong a week.

“As soon arsenic they enactment a Georgian location connected the marketplace from Sheep Street, it’s gone successful 2 minutes flat.

“CV is rated arsenic Coventry and that wasn’t considered desirable.”

Shipston-on-Stour’s astir celebrated lad was arguably Thomas Crapper who was credited with transforming modern toilets.

Crapper did not invent the flushing toilet, but helium did marque them, and was the archetypal to grounds his loos successful a showroom successful 1870.

In 1861, Crapper was commissioned by Prince Edward, who became Edward VII, to physique lavatories successful royal palaces.

Crapper besides patented the floating ballcock and the U-bend.

Until recently, a depository showcasing implicit 1,200 of Crapper’s loos, washbasins and baths were connected show successful the town.

Residents present anticipation their caller recovered “fame” volition assistance their area’s sanction retired of the gutter.

Watchmaker Adrian Sirbu, 35, moved to the municipality aft buying a repair store successful 2020 during the Covid pandemic.

He said: “I deliberation realistically it’s the exclusivity of the businesses successful the area, ours has been present since 1975.

“The properties merchantability rather rapidly astir here. My neighbours don’t spell into the town, astir enactment from home.

“There’s been an summation successful caller estates being built astir here.

“It changes the dynamic of the municipality but hopefully it won’t suffer it’s unsocial identity.”