Forest 
Loughborough andthe villages.
A market town and three villages, all within fifteen minutes of the office. The schools, the commute, where the bread comes from, and what a home costs.
Loughborough.
A proper market town with a university in it. Markets on the Market Place twice a week, a station on the Midland Main Line, and streets of Victorian brick that hold their value through most things.
The Loughborough Schools Foundation for the grammar and high schools, a good spread of primaries, and the university at the top of the hill.
Trains to Leicester in about a quarter of an hour and to London in around an hour and a half. The M1 at junction 23 is ten minutes from the centre.
Market Place and the streets off it: independents, the market on Thursdays and Saturdays, the Carillon in the park.
Two-bed terraces from the low two hundreds. The big Edwardian semis on the forest side of town from the high three hundreds.
Quorn.
The village people move to when they want the pub, the cricket and the school on one walk. A green in the middle, a heritage railway at the bottom, and lanes that run down to the Soar.
Rawlins Academy, the secondary, is in the village, and the primary is a short walk from the green. Buses run to the Loughborough schools.
Ten minutes into Loughborough by car and twenty to Leicester on the A6. The Great Central Railway runs steam trains from the village station at weekends.
A bakery, a butcher, two pubs on the green and a farm shop on the edge. Enough that most weeks you do not need the car.
Cottages on the lanes from the mid three hundreds. The big houses towards the river from £800,000.
Woodhouse Eaves.
Stone, slate and the Beacon behind you. Woodhouse Eaves is the village in the Charnwood Forest, and the one buyers ask for by name when they ring.
A village primary of its own and school buses to the secondaries in Loughborough. Rawlins in Quorn is ten minutes.
Twelve minutes to Loughborough, twenty-five to Leicester. Bradgate Park and Beacon Hill are both walkable from the village.
Main Street: a village shop, a couple of pubs, a tea room and a bakery people drive out from town for.
Very little under £400,000. Stone cottages from the mid four hundreds; the houses on the forest edge from a million.
Mountsorrel.
A granite village on the Soar, with the quarry still working at one end and the river walks at the other. Nearer Leicester than the others, and priced accordingly.
Two primaries in the village. For secondary, Rawlins in Quorn or the Leicester schools, both a short bus.
Straight onto the A6: Leicester in twenty minutes, Loughborough in ten. Sileby station is a short drive for trains to both.
The Buttercross at the top of the village, a run of shops along the main road, and the riverside path to Barrow for a Sunday.
Semis on the newer estates from the low three hundreds. Riverside houses from the high four hundreds.
Homes in all four.
Fifteen homes across the four. Filter by price, bedrooms and type, or register and we'll ring when something fits.