West country property sales - information about locations in the south west, including cornwall, devon, somerset and dorset
-TOP PROPERTY-
Helston, Cornwall
£335,000
This fantastic property is a 3 bedroomed detached house, with one en-suite. All bedrooms are doubles.
There is a utility room which leads into the kitchen.
The garden has room for 2 cars to be parked and is small and can be easily maintained.
To the rear of the property there is a wood store which also consists of a two storey wooded shed.
The property was recently built by the owners and is only 18 months old.
There is a lovely local pub down the road, opposite a handy shop with post office.
A beautiful country setting, next to Helford Creek.
Information about Cheddar
Cheddar is a large village in the English county of Somerset. The adjacent settlement of Axbridge, although only about a third the population of Cheddar, is a town. This apparently illogical situation is explained by the relative importance of the two places in historic times; while Axbridge grew in importance as a centre for cloth manufacture in the Tudor period and gained a charter from King John, Cheddar remained a more dispersed mining and dairy-farming village until the advent of tourism and the arrival of the railway in the Victorian era.
Cheddar is famous for a number of things, the most obvious of these is Cheddar cheese which is the most popular type of cheese in the United Kingdom. Although the cheese is now made worldwide, only one producer remains in the village itself. Local legend claims that Cheddar cheese was discovered accidentally when a milkmaid from the village left a bucket of milk in the nearby cheddar Gorge caves. When the maid returned, the milk had turned into a new tasty substance. Hence the birth of Cheddar cheese.
The second more notable feature is the famous Cheddar Gorge itself. A series of caves which over the years have become a major tourist destination for travellers and holiday makers alike. The gorge attracts many visitors due to the fact that the sides of the ravine reach 500 feet in places and are the highest inland cliffs in the country.
Photographs of Cheddar
