Longford: A well-connected location 20 minutes from Coventry
Perched on the edge of the lazy Coventry Canal, Longford is an ideal location for anyone house hunting for a stylish, high-quality, energy-efficient new build. If you’re looking for new homes in Coventry, you’ll have everything you need to settle down and relax into your new property at our Brindley Edge property development.
There are plenty of local shops and services in and around Longford, and the communities of Black Bank and Bedworth are close by, each featuring plenty of shops, supermarkets, pubs, restaurants and cafés.
If you love the outdoors, a home at Brindley Edge makes stretching your legs easy. The village is home to the historic Hawkesbury Junction, where the Oxford and Coventry canals meet. Perfect for walks with the family, these stretches are joined by plenty of parks nearby, including Longford, Wyken Slough and Miner’s Welfare Park.
What’s close to Longford?
There’s plenty to do around Longford if you choose the Brindley Edge property development for your new home.
Close by road and public transport is the bustling city of Coventry. Enjoy a bit of retail therapy? The city is full to the brim with all the best high-street shops. Take your pick from the West Orchards Shopping Centre, Upper and Lower Precinct, Broadgate, and the Gallagher, Central 6, Cannon Park, and Warwickshire retail parks. For a fun day in town with the family close to your new build home, there are also lots of restaurants and cafés where you can enjoy a tasty bite to eat too.
Coventry is also proud to have been picked as the 2021 UK City of Culture. With venues like Warwick Arts Centre and Belgrade Theatre, alongside plenty of bars, pubs and restaurants, getting a new home near Coventry means there are loads of options when it comes to evenings out sampling the nightlife.
The area is also a sports lover's dream; it's home to Coventry City Football Club, Coventry RFC rugby union team and the Coventry Blaze ice hockey side. There are plenty of leisure centres and fishing lakes in the Longford area too – perfect for a quiet and relaxing morning spent by the water.
Fancy a little history? Museums close to Longford include the Coventry Transport Museum, where you can find all sorts of old and interesting vehicles; Coventry Music Museum, the home of Two-Tone; and the Midland Air Museum, which is a must-visit for fans of flight. Historic Warwick and its imposing castle are also a short drive south, as well as the pretty town of Royal Leamington Spa.
Local schools and education
If you are planning on moving to Longford and have children, Linden Homes' Brindley Edge development is close to plenty of Good and Outstanding-rated schools.
There are four local primary schools to choose from: Exhall Cedars, Grangehurst, Exhall Junior School, and Goodyers End. The Canons, All Saints and Race Leys are primary schools in nearby Bedworth, and there are many others a short distance towards Coventry.
Secondary schools near our Coventry new builds are typically rated as Good, including Caludon Castle School, and the President Kennedy School Academy a short drive away is rated Outstanding. Various specialist schools are also on offer; parents can choose from institutions specialising in subjects including maths, music, languages, humanities and sciences.
Transport and travel
The Brindley Edge development has excellent transport links. For drivers, the M1, M6, M40, M45 and M69 motorways are all close, providing quick journey times – 30 minutes to Birmingham, two hours to London, one hour to Oxford, and one hour and 30 minutes to Peterborough.
Rail-wise, residents of our Longford new build homes can catch the train in nearby Bedworth to Nuneaton and Coventry. From Coventry railway station, head along the West Coast Main Line to London (one hour), Birmingham (20 minutes) and Wolverhampton (45 minutes). Direct trains are also available to northern English cities like Manchester, as well as Glasgow and Edinburgh.
The city’s bus network connects with the village close to our new housing development too, and for air travel, Birmingham Airport connects with countless European and global destinations.
