The Telegraph has determined the 48 ‘poshest’ villages in the UK and one area in Wiltshire made the cut.

As well as house prices, experts took into account the ease of commuting, aesthetic appeal and access to quality shops, pubs and restaurants. 

The lah-de-dah lifestyle is a luxury few of us will seldom savour and at just under a million-pound average house price, you can surely see why.

Shalbourne

Average house price: £921,876

Their review reads: "Set in the North Wessex Downs, Shalbourne is a picturesque shire village. Pleasant Saturday afternoons are spent either watching a game of cricket at the village square or in the local, The Plough.

"Community is at the very heart of this village. As well as the cricket club, there's a tennis club, gardening and environment groups and even a theatre club, which arranges visits to local theatres.

"There's also a 12th-century church, and thatched-roof houses which date back to the Elizabethan era."

See their full list here:

The UK’s poshest villages, according to the Telegraph 

  • Studham, Bedfordshire
  • Sunningdale, Berkshire 
  • Medmenham, Buckinghamshire 
  • Hemingford Abbots, Cambridgeshire 
  • The Alderleys, Cheshire 
  • Rock, Cornwall
  • Brancepeth, County Durham 
  • Stavely-in-Cartmel, Cumbria 
  • Baslow and Bubnell, Derbyshire 
  • South Pool, Devon
  • Abbotsbury, Dorset 
  • Sutton Upon Derwent, East Riding of Yorkshire 
  • Kingston-near-Lewes, East Sussex 
  • Ramsden Bellhouse, Essex
  • Oddington, Gloucestershire 
  • Haigh, Greater Manchester 
  • Beaulieu, Hampshire 
  • Bosbury, Herefordshire 
  • Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire 
  • Fishbourne, Isle of Wight 
  • Ightham, Kent
  • Wiswell, Lancashire 
  • Newtown Linford, Leicestershire 
  • Uffington, Lincolnshire 
  • Hightown, Merseyside 
  • Shirenewton, Monmouthshire 
  • Burnham Market, Norfolk 
  • Kirkby Overblow, North Yorkshire 
  • Church with Chapel Brampton, Northamptonshire 
  • Mitford, Northumberland 
  • Stanton-on-the-Wolds, Nottinghamshire
  • Harpsden, Oxfordshire 
  • Burley, Rutland 
  • Cound, Shropshire 
  • Wellow, Somerset 
  • Cawthorne, South Yorkshire 
  • Shenstone, Staffordshire 

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  • Kippen, Stirling and Falkirk 
  • Walberswick, Suffolk 
  • Shackleford, Surrey 
  • Dinnington, Tyne and Wear 
  • Llancarfan, Vale of Glamorgan 
  • Whichford, Warwickshire 
  • Barston, West Midlands 
  • West Itchenor, West Sussex 
  • Scarcroft, West Yorkshire
  • Shalbourne, Wiltshire 
  • Dodford with Grafton, Worcestershire 

Shalbourne is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire, about 3 miles southwest of Hungerford, Berkshire.

The parish has several widely spaced small settlements including Bagshot and Stype, to the north, and Rivar and Oxenwood to the south.

Go see for yourself this spring!