Yes, if you can drive. Timsbury is a village that solved the countryside problem and never got round to the transport one. The green is at the doorstep, the crime rate is well under what the wider area records, and the schools that serve it are graded well. Getting anywhere by anything other than a car is where the arrangement falls apart. Buy the peace, budget for the mileage.
The housing is a post-war village rather than a chocolate-box one, whatever the conservation area might lead you to expect. Across every dwelling on the council-tax valuation list, semi-detached homes are the single biggest group at around 35%, with detached at roughly 23%, terraced at about 19%, and bungalows at nearly 19%. Flats barely register at around 6%, which tells you most of what you need to know about who this place was built for. Around 24% of the stock predates 1930, so the older cottages are real but they are a minority sitting inside a much larger body of twentieth-century building. Heating is mostly conventional: roughly 76% of households run on mains gas, and only about 4% are on electric-only heating. That last number matters more than it looks. Electric-only in a stone-built village property is the kind of thing that shows up on the January bill rather than the survey, so it is worth knowing that here it is the exception rather than the rule.
On price, the Land Registry's last twelve months to May 2026 records a median sale of £315,000 across 35 sales. The split by type is narrower than in a lot of Somerset: terraced homes at a median of £300,000, semi-detached at £365,000, detached at £417,500. That is a small gap between the entry point and the top of the market, which is what happens in a village that built most of its housing in one go rather than in layers of wealth. Council tax sits mostly in the middle: band C is the most common, and around 32% of dwellings fall in bands A or B. Nobody is in band H.
Rent is harder to pin to the village itself. The typical private rent across the Bath and North East Somerset area runs at about £1,880 a month, which is an area-wide figure covering Bath's centre as much as it covers a village eight miles out. Treat it as the ceiling of the local market rather than the going rate on the High Street.
For safety, the recorded rate over the year to May 2026 is around 54 crimes per thousand residents, which sits roughly 41% below the Bath and North East Somerset average. That is a published rate rather than a sum anyone has done on the back of an envelope, and it puts Timsbury among the quieter parts of an already unremarkable authority. The largest recorded category is violence and sexual offences, which is a broad statutory grouping that tops the list almost everywhere in England and Wales, and at these low overall numbers a handful of incidents moves any share by several points. The honest reading is that the village records very little, and the composition of that very little is not worth reading tea leaves in.
Schools are the strongest thing on the sheet. Ofsted has graded 41 settings across Bath and North East Somerset, of which 39 are good or better and four are outstanding. One requires improvement and one is inadequate, so the authority is not perfect, but the odds are heavily in a parent's favour. At key stage two, the average maths score across the schools in this postal district is 103.1, which is above the expected standard. Nearby primaries include Marksbury Church of England Primary School, Farmborough Church Primary School and Peasedown St John Primary School, with Shoscombe Church School a little further out. Secondary means travelling: the modelled journey to a secondary school runs about 16 minutes by car against nearly 84 minutes on foot, which is a polite way of saying nobody is walking it. Ralph Allen School, Beechen Cliff School and Saint Gregory's Catholic College sit in the Bath direction.
Connectivity is where the village pays for everything else. Around 53% of residents drive to work and roughly 33% work from home, while the train accounts for a fraction of a percent and the bus around 2%. There are 20 bus stops in the area and, of the 17 with service data, an average of 58 scheduled weekday departures each, with weekend service at every one of them. That is better than most villages manage, though at around three buses an hour at peak it is a service you plan around rather than turn up for. The modelled drive to a town centre is around 17 minutes; the same trip by public transport is around 35 minutes. Broadband tells a similar story of adequate-not-brilliant: superfast reaches about 95% of premises, but gigabit only about 25%. Nothing falls below the universal service obligation. Mobile is the quiet success, with all four operators reaching around 99% of premises.
The environment is the best argument for living here. Green space averages roughly 150 metres from the doorstep, with nearly nine separate green spaces within a kilometre. Water is a little further at around 880 metres. Flood exposure is low on both measures the site carries: around 1% of postcodes flag high or medium risk on at least one flood indicator including surface water, about 22% flag low, and the Environment Agency's river-and-sea flood zones cover none of the village at all. There is no recorded historic flooding. The one thing to raise with a surveyor is underground: the whole area sits over the old Somerset Coalfield, with abandoned mine workings under nearly every postcode, and the British Geological Survey puts the area in the highest radon band. Neither is a reason not to buy. Both are reasons to read the mining search properly rather than skimming it.
Heritage constraints are real but contained. There are 21 listed buildings in the area, two of them grade two star and the rest grade two, and one conservation area covering Timsbury itself. If your house is one of the 21, replacing windows becomes a conversation with the council rather than a trip to a builder's merchant. If it sits inside the conservation area boundary without being listed, the constraints are lighter but still there. Most of the village stock is post-war and outside both, so for most buyers this is a footnote.
The character is settled and owner-occupied. Around 73% of homes are owned outright or on a mortgage, the median age is 50, and modelled household income for the area runs at roughly £62,600 before tax. Around 28% of households are single people and about 17% are single pensioners, which is a village where a good number of people have been here a long time and see no reason to move. Roughly 18% of homes are couples with children, so the school run exists without dominating.
It suits people who want space, quiet and a garden, who already own a car and do not resent using it, and who value being close to Bath more than being in it. It suits families willing to drive to secondary school. It suits anyone working from home who wants a walk that starts at the front door.
It does not suit anyone dependent on public transport, anyone who wants gigabit broadband today, or anyone who thinks eight miles from a city means an easy evening in one. If your image of village life involves walking to a station, this is not the village.
The place has produced more than its share of performers for somewhere this size. Anthony Head, the actor and singer, and Susan Chilcott, the soprano who grew up here, both came out of it, as did Fred Wedlock, the folk singer, and Jimmy Bridges, who played over two hundred first-class matches for Somerset. The writer Mark Boyle is also from the village. Not bad for a place whose main historical business was digging coal out of seven pits and floating it away down the Somerset Coal Canal, which started at Gooseyard bridge in the parish in 1795 and is now as gone as the mines it served.
Timsbury is a good place to live and an honest one about what it is. Its real strength is the surroundings: green space at the door, low flood exposure, and a quiet that the crime figures back up rather than merely imply. The weak spot is getting out of it, because the rail link is a rounding error and the bus is a timetable rather than a service. Buy here for the walk, not the commute.