The small town named one of UK's cheapest where houses still sell for under £50k

If you privation to get your ft connected the spot ladder, this quaint municipality could beryllium cleanable for you.

Just extracurricular Durham successful the northeast of England there’s a quiescent small municipality wherever homes consistently merchantability for little than £60,000.

Recently named the astir affordable spot to unrecorded successful England by Zoopla, the municipality of Shildon has a median location worth of £69,650 portion the mean income of a mates per twelvemonth is £65,438. In England, 8 retired of 10 of the astir affordable areas are successful the North East, with six successful County Durham, the Express reports.

Shildon is located conscionable 25 minutes distant from Durham by car and tin beryllium easy reached. This premier determination leaves residents with the champion of some worlds - entree to the countryside and the city.

The municipality has an absorbing history, with its earliest inhabitants apt surviving successful the country from the Mesolithic era. The enlargement of the Roman empire reached County Durham successful the archetypal period AD and imaginable grounds of Roman infrastructure has been uncovered successful the area.

The archetypal notation of the municipality comes from the Anglo-Saxon play successful 821AD. Shildon is besides location to a locomotion museum, cleanable for a rainy time retired if you can’t rotation circular the beauteous Hackworth Park.

This parkland is located successful the centre of Shildon and is named aft Timothy Hackworth who was a locomotive engineer. The parkland contains a drinking fountain created to commemorate 1 of the engines helium designed and besides has a statue of him.

Due to its debased prices, outdoor spaces and proximity to Durham arsenic good arsenic different transport links, Shildon is simply a fashionable spot for young families who are looking to commencement their lives.

According to Rightmove, determination are presently 9 properties for merchantability for little than £50,000 and the lowest terms for spot successful Shildon presently is £37,500 for a 2 chamber flat.