[arethuza]

I can recommend my home village in North East Scotland for everything apart from convenient access to London. Not sure about internet speeds or whether they have coffee yet.

But certainly pretty, peaceful, cheap property, great scenery and fairly convenient for the Cairngorms for climbing/skiing:

http://www.portknockiewebsite.co.uk/

For a bit of history, here is a page describing the loss of my great-grandfathers boat the Evangeline with all hands:

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/pirie/history/PFWv1-o/ui26.htm

[I traced my ancestry recently and its a bit of a shock to realise that most of my male ancestors for about 300 years had a connection of one kind or another with the fishing industry].

[Fuzzwah]

My curiosity was peaked by a URL which actually had the word website in it. I was pleasantly surprised at the lack of yellow and black animated gifs of workmen digging.