Description
The charming settlement of Archers Fields, with its picturesque cottages and tree-lined High Street, was once a popular stopping point for those, journeying between Bedford and Luton. While it is still a wonderfully convenient base, Silsoe is today a peaceful village of enormous character. Archers Fields is a prestigious new neighbourhood that blends in harmoniously with its special surroundings.
Leisure facilities
With open farmland stretching away in three directions, Archers Fields is a superb location for walking, cycling, and exploring the surrounding villages. Within Silsoe, the large Millennium Green, located alongside the High Street, provides a restful and tranquil place to walk or enjoy sports and games. And around 15 minutes walk to the west of the development, Wrest Park Gardens is one of the pinnacles of English formal landscape garden design. Modelled on Versailles and incorporating over 150 acres of wooded walks and canals, pavilions and architectural ornaments, the Gardens are today in the care of English Heritage.
There is a swimming pool at Clophill, two miles from the development, and a wider range of amenities at Flitwick Leisure Centre, around four miles from Silsoe, including a 25-metre swimming pool with a separate learners pool, squash courts, a fitness suite and a large sports hall. The nearby Beadlow Manor Golf and Country Club offers a choice of two mature 18-hole courses, in addition to a floodlit driving range and excellent dining facilities. There are also two traditional pubs in the village, the George and the Star and Garter, both situated in the High Street just a few minutes walk from Archers Fields.
Local shopping
In addition to a post office, a farm shop and a hairdresser, there is small convenience store selling newspapers and groceries in the village, and a large Tesco supermarket around three miles away in Flitwick. For a wider selection of high street and specialist stores, the town centres of Hitchin, Bedford and Luton are all within 10 miles.
Schools and education
Silsoe has its own Lower School catering for years one to four, and there is also a popular Pre-School, housed in its own classroom within the school, which is less than half a mile from Archers Fields. There is a wide choice of alternative nursery and primary school provision, as well as middle and secondary schools, in the surrounding villages and towns.
Nearest schools:
- Silsoe Lower School - Primary (0.5 miles)
- Pulloxhill Lower School - Primary (1.3 miles)
- Greenfield Lower School - Primary (1.6 miles)
Transport links
Archers Fields is approximately five miles from junction 12 of the M1, around 12 miles from junctions 8 and 10 of the A1(M) and less than half a mile from the A6, offering access to Luton and Bedford in under 20 minutes. Luton Airport is just 12 miles away. There are regular train services from London St Pancras to Flitwick and Bedford, and good bus services between Silsoe, Bedford and Luton.
Nearest stations:
Flitwick
(2.9 miles)
Harlington
(4.2 miles)
Millbrook (Bedfordshire)
(5.6 miles)
Health facilities
There are two major medical centres within around three miles of Archers Fields, both providing full GP services with a choice of doctors, and the one in Flitwick also offers a range of specialist clinics. Barton-le-Clay, around two and a half miles south of Silsoe, also has two dental surgeries and there is a general hospital with full Accident and Emergency facilities in Bedford.
Opening hours
Sales centres are open: Thursday to Monday 10am - 5pm
Call directly
Tel: 0843 314 9567 BT 4p/min
Site plan
About Miller Homes
Our background
Miller Homes, part of the Miller Group, is the nation’s largest privately-owned housebuilder. Since 1934 we have completed over 60,000 homes, and established ourselves as one of the top three housebuilders in Scotland and the North East of England, and top ten in the UK as a whole.
In 2000 we re-invented ourselves with a new image, a portfolio of new house-types, new locations in which to build and a new customer care programme. The quality and value of our product range has since shown dramatic improvement with our average selling price increasing from £74,000 in 1999 to £164,000 in 2008.
Our customer focus
Through our established customer care programme we pledge to communicate effectively and always deliver what we promise, without fail. Month on month, we have seen a massive improvement in overall satisfaction and in our most recent survey, conducted in 2009, 97% of our customers state they would happily recommend Miller Homes to their best friend.
We understand the experience of the customer journey and acknowledge that buying a house can be an anxious time – as a result, we have introduced several initiatives to help our customers through the whole process.
Our commitment to quality
Our commitment to constant improvement has been well rewarded, to see Miller Homes list of awards click here
In addition, a total of 12 Miller Homes’ Site Managers won Quality Awards during 2008, of which six went on to be awarded a Seal of Excellence, and one – Bill Hughes – won a Regional Award and was runner-up in the Supreme Awards. In addition, two Site Managers won a Gold and a Silver award in the Chartered Institute of Builders’ Construction Manager of the Year awards. These awards act as further incentive for striving to achieve the best in everything we do. Miller Homes will continue to develop new product designs in response to Government planning legislation and to the changes in consumer lifestyle which will never stop presenting our industry with fresh and exciting challenges.
