Dreeym / Our Communities / Willowmere
Get to know it
Willowmere sits where the water meadows soften into the Test Valley, twenty-six acres of old willows, mown paths and slow green river on the edge of one of Hampshire's prettiest corners. Thirty-eight single-storey homes will stand here when the last one is sited; more than half the land — the meadow, the bank, the two big greens — stays exactly as it is, for good. Kingfishers most mornings. The good bench, always free by ten.
Life at Willowmere
Every Dreeym community keeps the essentials — The Hearth, a guest suite for family, a workshop, allotments, EV charging — and then adds what the land suggests.
The social heart
The Hearth at Willowmere keeps a long oak table, a log burner and the best noticeboard in the Test Valley. Coffee on Wednesdays, fish tales on Fridays, carols in December. Attendance always optional.
The grounds
We started with the land: the willows were pollarded the old way, the bank replanted with flag iris and loosestrife, and the wildflower meadow is cut once a year, after the seed drops. The river does the rest.
Homes at Willowmere
Filters here never hide a home — they bring the closest matches forward and mark what the others lack. Guide price and monthly pitch fee on every card. Pitch fee here: £195/month, reviewed once a year, pegged to CPI.
The lie of the land
Illustrative, not to scale — the real plan (measured, mapped and covenanted) hangs in The Hearth and comes with the paperwork. Tap a numbered plot to see the home.
In photographs
Every photograph captioned, in the order you'd walk it. Scroll the strip, or open any one full-screen — arrow keys work, and so does the back button.
Out and about
A flint church, a farm shop that takes orders, and The Mayfly on the water — walkable for lunch, staggerable for supper.
The Test Valley’s little capital: butcher, baker, bookshop, trout in the high street stream. Market on Thursdays.
Twenty-five minutes to the cathedral, the Christmas market and direct trains to London in just over an hour.
What's on
Not a marketing calendar — the actual timetable, as it stands this month. Note what Sunday says. Both things matter.
| Mon | 9:30 | Walking group — the meadow loopMove |
| Tue | 10:00 | Mobile fishmonger at the gate |
| Wed | 10:30 | Coffee morning, The HearthGather |
| Wed | 14:00 | Workshop open — Bill’s on the latheMake |
| Thu | 9:00 | Minibus to Stockbridge marketWander |
| Fri | 17:00 | Fish tales & a glass, the jettyGather |
| Sat | 10:00 | Allotment morning (or watching it)Make |
| Sun | — | Nothing organised. That’s the point. |
Water over the hatch, a wren going properly mad, and one distant tractor. Forty-eight seconds. No traffic, because there isn’t any.
Recording coming with the spring shoot — ask Sarah to play it down the phone in the meantime. She will.
Calculating…
Worked out in your browser from where Willowmere actually is. The good bench catches the last of it.
The residents' residents
Pets are welcome — no breed rules, no numbers limit, no extra fee. These are the current incumbents.
Believes the jetty is hers.
Hunts nothing successfully.
Swims first, thinks later.
Visits four households for four dinners.
Ask for Jean. She knows where the kingfishers nest and which plot gets the last of the evening sun.
01962 456 781We thought we were downsizing. In truth we upgraded almost everything — the view, the neighbours, the pace. I only wish we’d done it sooner.Margaret & David · Willowmere · since 2024
The straight answers
The rest — the law, the ledger, the 10% rule — lives in the Open Book.
The pitch fee is £195 a month, reviewed once a year and pegged to CPI — it covers the grounds, the greens and The Hearth. Council tax is Band A (about £117 a month). Utilities are metered. The full worked ledger is in the Open Book.
Dreeym does, outright — no head leases, no third parties. You own your home and licence your plot under a written Mobile Homes Act 1983 agreement you’ll see before paying a penny.
Please. There’s a fenced dog meadow, towels at the gate, and eleven resident dogs who’d like to meet yours.
You sell on the open market; 10% of the price goes to Dreeym — the industry-wide rule, capped by law, explained properly on page one of your agreement and in the Open Book.
Getting here: Off the B3049 between Stockbridge and Winchester — follow the willow sign at the ford. Sat-nav: SO20 6DR (ish — call and Jean will talk you in).
45 minutes, wellies provided, no sales office to be walked past. Bring your family, bring your dog, bring your hardest questions.