The ‘celebrity magnet’ UK village with £1.1m homes the place Queen Camilla went to high school | UK | News | EUROtoday

In the nice countryside south of London is a village that’s described as a “magnet” for celebrities.

Ditchling in East Sussex has been dwelling to the BBC radio presenter Zoe Ball, Raymond Briggs, the creator of The Snowman who died in 2022, and the late wartime singer Dame Vera Lynn.

Queen Camilla additionally went to a faculty there in her early years, Dumbrell’s.

Officially referred to as North End House, everybody referred to it colloquially in reference to the three sisters who based the establishment.

Another Dumbrell’s pupil, Jenny KilBride, reminisced in a bit marking Queen Camilla’s coronation in 2023, describing the college as having been “run very strictly”.

She additionally remebered “a big school room with lines of old fashioned wooden desks”, and the actions that ladies took half in have been “eccentric”.

These included “top and tailing” gooseberries, de-stalking blackcurrants or podding peas on the ground of the lecture room. This whereas a “formidable” instructor learn from basic literature.

Ms KilBride concluded: “Maybe Dumbrell’s was a good preparation for the challenges of her [the Queen’s] future life though nothing could have been further from our thoughts as we made camps in the back orchard at playtime and tramped about the muddy Sussex countryside looking for wildflowers.”

It is positioned close to the foot of the South Downs National Park, a panorama that’s mentioned to be “brimming with romance”.

Rightmove says home costs in Ditchling had an general common of £836,746 during the last 12 months.

Experts add that almost all of properties bought in Ditchling over the last 12 months have been indifferent, and bought for a mean value of £1,135,200.

Semi-detached properties, in the meantime, bought for a mean of £747,488. Terraced fetched £458,333.

But, general, the historic bought costs within the village during the last 12 months have been 6% down on the earlier 12 months, and 4% up on the 2019 peak of £803,487.

House costs in East Sussex as a complete, although, had an general common of £421,056 during the last 12 months.

The majority of properties bought within the county have been flats, promoting for a mean value of £271,404.

Detached properties bought for £601,130 on common, and terraced properties £407,660.