A visit to Yeovil

When we put our house on the market we started making a short-list of properties we’d seen on the Right Move, Zoopla and Prime Location websites.

Silver Street, South Petherton (Steve Doble)

Back in April we went down to Yeovil (Somerset) for our first actual viewings. The district was one of our preferred areas and it looked like we would get more for our money there than in Dorset. We saw three houses but unfortunately one just wasn’t suitable and the other two, although in lovely village locations and ticking all the right boxes property-wise were within earshot of the constantly busy A303. Six years ago we had moved from Lower Earley to Shinfield to get away from the swish of the M4 and I didn’t want to move anywhere with the same kind of noise.

We also had a look around South Petherton – recently voted one of the top places for a family to live – and other nearby villages. South Petherton is a lovely little town with plenty going on and gives the impression of having a really good community spirit. The countryside around there is really lovely and Yeovil itself would make a really good 'main' town with plenty of shops, theatre and concerts and good transport links, too. Sadly, there was nothing else suitable property-wise.

Once again, though, we were being drawn back down south to Dorchester, Weymouth and the sea. We were getting closer to finding our new neighbourhood, if not our actual home. But time was running out.