Warwickshire

Dunchurch

Commute Rugby (London Euston, 50 minutes). Drive to station: about 11 minutes. Frequency of trains: 3 per hour (peak). First train in: 5.16am; last train home: 11.30pm. Annual season ticket: £5,640. Annual car-park ticket: £735

The Country Life verdict
Dunchurch is a charming, large village to the south of Rugby (sometimes considered a suburb), which was was used as a meeting point for the Gunpowder Plot conspirators at Old Inn

Best address For historical cachet, Guy Fawkes House;

Alternative Ashby St Ledgers, a thatch-and-stone estate- built village built by Lord Wimborne and designed by Lutyens, it was bought by The Queen in 2005.

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