Claughton, North West • England
Claughton-on-Brock is a small farming village in the Wyre district of Lancashire, in the PR postcode area, a couple of miles south of Garstang between Preston and Lancaster. KrewBase finds whole serviced houses for crews working across the M6 corridor and the Preston–Lancaster jobs belt: bills in, Wi-Fi tested before check-in, parking that fits your vans, and one monthly invoice to the company. Housing in the village itself is limited, so we shortlist by real drive time from site across Garstang, Catterall, Brock and the surrounding villages.
Claughton itself is a scatter of farmhouses, cottages and a modest number of family homes strung along quiet lanes — beautiful, but thin pickings for a five-bed crew house with van parking. The workable stock sits around it: the villages of Catterall and Brock, Garstang's mix of terraces and semis three miles north, and the farms and barn conversions dotted across the Fylde farmland. Speeds, boilers and damp-proofing all get verified, because a photo of an inglenook is not warmth in January.
When the job justifies it, we look further along the A6 toward Preston and Lancaster, where estates offer exactly what crews need — driveways, multiple bathrooms, no-fuss neighbours. Every property gets the same checks: parking for your actual vehicles, two bathrooms for five or more, and heating that copes with a Lancashire winter. Older cottages only make the list if the damp course and heating genuinely check out.
Crews base in this part of Lancashire for construction and housing development across Garstang, the Wyre towns and the growing communities toward the M55, for agricultural and food-production work across the Fylde's farms, and for utilities and grid maintenance on the rural networks. The canal and quiet country roads also bring their share of long-term maintenance and improvement schemes, in the yards and on the farms that keep the district working.
The M6 junctions at Garstang and Broughton bring logistics and infrastructure jobs within easy reach, and crews working between Preston and Lancaster often plant themselves here as the midpoint. It's the kind of district where a good crew house gets rebooked the moment the next phase is signed — the work follows the land, the roads and the grid. Seasonal agricultural contracts bring their own rhythm of comings and goings.
The A6 runs past the village, north to Garstang in five minutes and on to Lancaster in about twenty, south toward Preston in roughly fifteen, with the Trough of Bowland starting just east for the jobs that wander into the hills. Junctions 32 and 33 of the M6 bracket the area — Preston nine miles south, Lancaster twelve north — and the M55 to Blackpool and the Fylde coast peels off at Preston.
For sites out on the farms and substations of the Fylde, we shortlist by tested drive time rather than mileage, because the straightest-looking lanes aren't always the quickest with a van at dawn. Give us the site pin and we'll draw the house-hunting circle properly — we'd rather your lads spend their overtime on the site than on the lane, and we always check the route in both directions before committing.
Your crew gets the whole property for the job's length — no shared corridors, no landlord next door. All bills, council tax and broadband are in our name, the Wi-Fi is tested before check-in, and parking is verified against the vehicles actually arriving. Crews of five or more get two bathrooms as a matter of course. There's no deposit squabble at the end, either — the terms are the terms.
A weekly clean with fresh linen keeps the house straight, and maintenance is entirely ours — the crew reports it, we fix it, nothing comes back to your company as an extra charge. One monthly invoice, paid by card, no booking fees, no minimum crew or stay. And if the crew's mixed between drivers and non-drivers, we'll weigh rail access into the shortlist too.
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.
Two working hours from the site address, headcount and dates. Claughton village is small, so the shortlist will typically span Garstang, Catterall, Brock and the nearby villages — wherever the tested drive time works best. Once confirmed, check-in is usually within 48 hours.
The Wyre district and beyond — Garstang, Catterall, Brock, Great Eccleston and the villages along the A6, plus Preston, Lancaster and the M55 side of the Fylde if the site points that way. We follow the drive time from your site rather than any fixed boundary, which is the only sensible way in open farming country.
Yes. Every shortlisted house is matched against the actual vehicles arriving — vans, pickups, trailers included. Rural properties often have the best parking of all, with drives and yards that city terraces can't offer; where the parking is limited, we say so before you book and offer an alternative.
Everything's included: gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband in our name, covered by the one monthly invoice. Wi-Fi is installed and speed-tested before check-in — important in rural spots where signal can be patchy — and if a line problem crops up, we deal with the provider, not your crew.
That's how all our bookings run. Your company receives one monthly invoice covering rent, every bill, Wi-Fi, cleaning and maintenance, paid by card. Multiple properties across Lancashire or further afield can sit under a single account, which keeps your accounts team's workload to one supplier and one payment run.
We do — entirely. Heating, plumbing, appliances, locks: the crew reports it, our team fixes it, and the cost stays inside the monthly invoice with no call-out fees. In rural areas a quick response matters, so we keep the process simple: one message from the crew, one job raised on our side, no chasing anyone.
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