Keckwick Park, Daresbury Garden Village

Located in pretty, rural Cheshire, surrounded by open countryside yet with superb transport links to nearby towns and cities, the development at Daresbury Garden Village offers a truly enviable quality of living. Incorporating both Keckwick Park and Gleaves View, the Garden Village development offers stylish collections of three and four-bedroom homes to suit buyers of all kinds.

You won’t have to travel far to find a range of amenities, with nearby Stockton Heath home to a selection of supermarkets, including an Aldi and a Morrisons, both around a 10-minute drive away. Those looking for shopping of a more pleasurable kind will find a number of familiar retailers at Golden Square Shopping Centre, while Manchester’s famous Trafford Centre needs no introduction and is just half an hour away by road.

Fancy a cosy drink or a meal out somewhere special? Take your pick from foodie favourite the Ring O’Bells, the Hatton Arms or even the Walton Arms. Or if you’re looking for restaurant cuisine, why not sample Greek meze or a Moroccan tagine at Ego Mediterranean Restaurant, contemporary Italian dishes at Piccolino or delicious curries at Amans?

For leisure and pleasure, you’ll also have plenty of choice. For fun and fitness, Broomfields Leisure Centre is around a 10-minute drive and has a gym, swimming pool and football pitches. Golfers, meanwhile, can enjoy a round or two at Warrington and Walton Hall Golf Clubs. Fancy a night at the movies? Cineworld in Runcorn and the Odeon in Warrington show all the latest blockbusters.

Parents will be pleased to find a good selection of schools for youngsters of all ages, including Little Manor, Kids Planet Stretton and Lynton Day nurseries. Moore Primary School is also rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted, while Daresbury and Windmill Hill primaries have ‘Outstanding’ ratings. For older students, Bridgewater High School and Sir Thomas Boteler High School are both also rated ‘Good’.

New homes in Daresbury are particularly popular thanks to the range of excellent transport links within easy reach. Liverpool is just a 40-minute journey via the M56 (with junction 11 just 5 minutes from home) and M53 motorways, while Manchester is around the same journey time on the M56. For train travel, Warrington Central Station is about 13 minutes away by car, for services to Liverpool (32 minutes) and Manchester (34 minutes). For air travel, Liverpool and Manchester airports are 15 minutes and 30 minutes away respectively.