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"Property Description

The property is located in the increasingly popular and sought after village of Brill within 0.1 miles to local shops and amenities. There is easy access to the M40 and to Haddenham & Thame Parkway station. Bicester and Bicester Village are also within 8 miles.

Property Details

Brill is a beautiful hilltop village situated midst glorious Buckinghamshire countryside and littered with attractive period properties. The village has two village shops, including a post office, an active Church community and famous windmill landmark with its eye catching hillocks of common land. The village has two fabulous public houses both offering excellent food, a reputable primary school and catchment for Lord Williams secondary school in Thame. The nearby Ashfold preparatory school is also at hand, with regular buses into Grammar schools at Aylesbury. A modern health centre has been recently completed in the village and a regular bus service is available into the larger nearby towns of Thame and Aylesbury. Brill has become very popular with those people wishing to enjoy a countryside location whilst still convenient for commuting by car M40 . There are also railway stations at Haddenham and Bicester providing regular direct line services to London Marylebone in just 37 minutes. Brill is also known for its windmill, last owned and used by the Pointer and Nixie family who also baked bread in their house in the village. With timbers dating from 1685, Brill Windmill provides one of the earliest and best preserved examples of a post mill in the UK. The name Brill itself is thought to stem from the prehistoric word brae meaning hill. When the meaning of this word was forgotten it is thought that hill was added at the end, making Brae Hill still the name of one of the streets Where this property is located , which was later contracted to Brill

Further amenities include; Two Butchers The Pointer Butchers, Boarstall meats located just on the edge of the village, A Greengrocers on the edge of the village, Sports and Social Club, News agents, Local sports teams cricket and football and exercise classes for adults in the village hall, Beavers, cubs, scouts clubs, Ballet and dance classes in the village hall for children"