Badby, East Midlands • England
Badby is a small Northamptonshire village in the East Midlands of England, in the NN postcode area, a couple of miles south of Daventry and close to the M1 at Junction 16. Banbury is about 10 miles south-west, Northampton around 14 miles east. KrewBase arranges whole serviced houses and flats for crews working around Badby — bills in our name, Wi-Fi ready before check-in and one monthly invoice for the whole crew.
Badby itself is a classic stone-and-brick village — old cottages along the main street, a smattering of newer houses, and not much in between. In practice, crew houses here usually mean Daventry, four miles up the road, where there is a deep stock of brick terraces, semis and post-war estates. We filter for what crews actually need: a drive that fits the vans, bathrooms that match the headcount, and a kitchen big enough to cook for a crew.
The villages around — Byfield, Woodford Halse, Staverton, the lanes towards Banbury — sometimes have exactly the right house, and we check them too. Every property is visited in person; a photos-only shortlist is how crews end up an hour from site, and we do not send one. Parking, heating and broadband are all verified before a house reaches your list.
Badby sits inside one of the busiest logistics patches in the Midlands — Daventry's distribution corridors along the M1 and A5 keep warehouse and transport crews in the area, alongside construction and housing development across West Northamptonshire. Crews also pass through for infrastructure work on the region's roads and rail, utility and grid maintenance, and NHS and care contracts in Northampton and Banbury.
Much of it is project work that moves between sites, which suits a serviced house perfectly: one base, one invoice, no rebooking every time the job shifts five miles down the road. Crews settle in properly, sleep in proper beds, cook proper food, and the gaffer stops being an unpaid travel agent at the end of each job. That is the point of the whole arrangement.
The M1 at Junction 16 is a few minutes north, the A5 and A361 both run close by, and Daventry links the village to everything from Northampton to Banbury. Coventry is around 25 minutes, Milton Keynes half an hour. For a village this size, drive time is the whole game — so we rank every shortlist from your site's postcode, at the hours your crew actually travels.
The local roads are decent but rural, which means the honest answer to 'how far' is rarely the map's answer. Send the site postcode and shift times with your enquiry and the shortlist comes back ranked on real commutes, with any awkward junctions or school-run pinch points flagged before you decide. It takes one email to set that in motion.
A whole house, not a block of rooms: bills in our name — council tax, energy, water and broadband — Wi-Fi tested before check-in, parking checked against the actual vans, two bathrooms for crews of five or more, and a weekly clean with fresh linen. Maintenance comes to KrewBase — one number to call, whatever breaks, day or night, weekends included.
You get one monthly invoice covering rent and all bills, paid by card, with no booking fees. There is no minimum crew size or stay — and no maximum either. Send the site postcode, crew size and dates, and a shortlist of checked houses normally comes back within two working hours. Each option comes with photos and honest drive times attached.
Send us the requirement — town, dates, headcount, vehicles and any shift pattern we should know about. We come back within 2 hours with a shortlist from property we already hold, not a search we have just started. You pick, we confirm, the crew moves in, and we stay on it for the length of the job. One monthly invoice, card payment for limited companies, no booking fees.
Yes — during the working day we normally turn a shortlist around within two hours of receiving the site postcode, crew size and rough dates. Every option has been visited in person and comes with photos, parking notes and a realistic drive time, so you can decide without a site visit of your own.
Daventry is the natural centre — four miles away with the deepest stock — plus Byfield, Woodford Halse, Staverton and the villages towards Banbury. Tell us where the site actually is and we will weight the shortlist to that side; a house in the wrong direction costs the crew an hour a week.
We treat parking as a deal-breaker, not an afterthought. Each shortlisted house is measured against the vehicles you run — drive length, width and turning space — and anything that fails goes off the list. If a property is borderline, we say so before you book, not after.
Yes — one monthly figure covers rent, council tax, gas, electric, water, broadband and the weekly clean. Parking is verified against your vans before check-in and Wi-Fi is tested on the day. There are no meter top-ups, no surprise utility letters and no bolt-ons at the end of the month.
In most cases, yes. Tell us as soon as the dates look shaky; owners here are used to extensions and the monthly invoice simply continues. If the house genuinely has to end, we will line up the next one before the crew has to move — ideally on the same side of Daventry.
For stays beyond a week or two, almost always. Hotels around the Daventry logistics corridor price for overnight lorry trade, not working crews: no kitchen, no washing machine, parking charged by the night. A crew house works out cheaper per head, and the crew can live properly between shifts.
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Working in Badby? You are about 19 miles from Coventry, so we often shortlist from both. Have a look at our contractor accommodation Coventry page too — whole houses, bills in, one invoice, whatever the size of the crew.
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Need beds in Badby? Send us the dates, the headcount and the shift pattern. We come back within 2 hours with a shortlist from property we already hold.
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