Based on a 2024 report, 44 of the “poshest” villages across England have been revealed. Factors included in the final decision-making process included an area’s outstanding natural beauty, its commute time to major hubs, and average house prices.

One area, for example, has an average house price reaching £1.4million, which is up to six times more than other more modest villages.

This isn’t one or two houses – or even a row – of expensive homes in a little area, but the overall average of the place as a whole.

As such, most people living in the area are likely to be residing in an asset worth millions of pounds; so, where is this place?

One place considered to be the poshest in England, according to the report by The Telegraph, is Harpsden in Oxfordshire, but there’s more.

Harpsden in Oxfordshire

The semi-rural village, by Harpsden Woods, is only a mile or so south from the beautiful town of Henley-on-Thames, where the Henley Royal Regatta rowing event takes place every year. 

While Harpsden is firmly a residential area, with no train station or shops in sight, there is a home on Rightmove going for nearly £9million.

Most famously, the pretty village of Harpsden has starred in a couple episodes of ITV’s Agatha Christie’s Marple – namely, Nemesis and By the Pricking of My Thumbs.

Another pretty village classified as one of the poshest in England is Walberswick in Suffolk, which is by the River Blyth. 

Poshest villages in England

1. Harpsden in Oxfordshire
2. Walberswick in Suffolk
3. Studham, Bedfordshire
4. Sunningdale, Berkshire
5. Medmenham, Buckinghamshire
6. Hemingford Abbots, Cambridgeshire
7. The Alderleys, Cheshire
8. Rock, Cornwall
9. Brancepeth, County Durham
10. Stavely-in-Cartmel, Cumbria
11. Baslow and Bubnell, Derbyshire
12. South Pool, Devon
13. Abbotsbury, Dorset
14. Sutton Upon Derwent, East Riding of Yorkshire
15. Kingston-near-Lewes, East Sussex
16. Ramsden Bellhouse, Essex
17. Oddington, Gloucestershire
18. Haigh, Greater Manchester
19. Beaulieu, Hampshire
20. Bosbury, Herefordshire
21. Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire
22. Ightham, Kent
23. Wiswell, Lancashire
24. Newtown Linford, Leicestershire
25. Uffington, Lincolnshire
26. Burnham Market, Norfolk
27. Kirkby Overblow, North Yorkshire
28. Church with Chapel Brampton, Northamptonshire
29. Mitford, Northumberland
30. Stanton-on-the-Wolds, Nottinghamshire
31. Burley, Rutland
32. Cound, Shropshire
33. Wellow, Somerset
34. Cawthorne, South Yorkshire
35. Shenstone, Staffordshire
36. Walberswick, Suffolk
37. Shackleford, Surrey
38. Dinnington, Tyne and Wear
39. Whichford, Warwickshire
40. Barston, West Midlands
41. West Itchenor, West Sussex
42. Scarcroft, West Yorkshire
43. Shalbourne, Wiltshire
44. Dodford with Grafton, Worcestershire

Do note these are not ordered in the number of poshest to least posh at all; all of these areas have been crowned as the poshest villages in England.