Les Landes Estate, Vale GY3 5JF
Built in the 70’s, this semi-detached home is located on quiet clos near L’Ancresse Common within close proximity to a main bus route and an easy walk to the Vale School.
The accommodation offers two bedrooms and a study/nursery, serviced by a family bathroom and a kitchen opening onto the lawned rear garden. Externally, there is a lawned west facing garden and patio to the front and parking that forms part of the clos and is private to the residents only. Although in need of some modernisation, St Maxime offers a purchaser the potential to extend and put their own stamp on the property, a perfect first home that would also make an ideal investment.
The ancient names of Le Clos du Valle and Vale Vingtaine de l’Epine remain on record but they are administered as one and jointly called Vale.
The parish offers wide sandy beaches and surfing at Portinfer, two fishing harbours at Grande Harve, a marina at Beaucette and horseshoe harbour at Bordeaux. There is a Royal 18-hole links course within extensive common land that also has a competition-standard rifle range.
Vale and its former abbey found favour with William the Conqueror and his father before him, whose storm-torn ship found safety at L’Ancresse (the anchorage). Wealth and industry have long since been Vale’s bywords, displayed in numerous 17th- and 18th-century farmhouses, pretty cottages and vast Victorian villas in an inland maze of lanes.
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