Quiet coastal villages tucked between Formby and Crosby — Leigh comes through here on the coast road regularly and knows exactly where the tight turns are.
L38 is a small, distinctive postcode — Hightown village with its station and a tight cluster of period cottages and newer detacheds, then inland to Ince Blundell and Great Altcar where it opens out into farmland. Properties here tend to be characterful: sandstone cottages, substantial detacheds behind hedges, and the odd converted barn. These are often the larger, more furnished moves — people who've been in the same house for decades.
Hightown's seafront roads have some lovely Victorian and Edwardian properties with big bay windows and original features worth protecting. Leigh treats those staircase banisters and tiled hallways with care.
