Lydham, West Midlands • England
Lydham is a small Shropshire village on the A488, in the SY postcode area, a few miles north of Bishop's Castle and within reach of Shrewsbury in England's West Midlands. Crews here are usually working the Welsh border corridor — construction, rural energy, farming and land jobs. KrewBase finds whole serviced houses and flats within a sensible drive — bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in, parking for the vans, and one monthly invoice.
Lydham itself is a handful of houses, so we shortlist across the corridor: Bishop's Castle to the south, Minsterley and Pontesbury toward Shrewsbury, and villages along the A488. This is proper border country, so every rural property gets checked hard before it is offered — heating that can handle a hill winter, phone signal, water supply, and parking that takes the real vehicles. We look for two bathrooms for five or more and a kitchen built for a working crew, not a weekend let.
The A488 corridor and the hills around it generate exactly the jobs that need long-stay accommodation: construction and housing development in the small towns, rural energy and grid work across the hills, farming and land contracts, and maintenance for the visitor sites that dot the border country. Crews working across south-west Shropshire and into mid Wales base here because the position covers both without living in either's traffic.
The A488 is the spine of the area, linking Shrewsbury and Bishop's Castle through Lydham, with the A5 and M54 near Shrewsbury covering long eastward runs. There is no local rail — the nearest stations are Shrewsbury and Craven Arms on the Welsh Marches line. Everything we shortlist is measured by drive time from the site postcode, because border lanes punish guesswork and a sensible commute here is the whole point of the booking.
Whole property, not rooms: bills in our name, Wi-Fi speed-tested before check-in, parking checked against your listed vehicles, and two bathrooms when five or more are in. The weekly clean and linen are included, maintenance — including rural plumbing and heating — is ours to chase. Your company gets one monthly invoice, paid by card, with no booking fees and no minimum crew or stay length.
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.
Lydham plus Bishop's Castle, Minsterley, Pontesbury and the villages along the A488 toward Shrewsbury. The site postcode sets the search — we shortlist by real drive time, so a village house can beat a town one when the lanes and commute work in its favour.
The site postcode, the number in the crew, and the rough dates. Shift patterns and the vehicle list help us pick well — quiet streets for night crews, parking sized for what you actually run. From that we send whole-property options with one all-in monthly figure each.
Rural stock usually delivers — yards, drives and space along a lane. We still verify it before offering: give us the vehicle list including any trailer and only properties that genuinely accommodate it make the shortlist. Nobody is shuffling a pickup before breakfast.
Yes — gas or oil, electric, water, council tax, broadband, weekly clean and linen all sit inside the single monthly figure. The Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, which matters in border country where signal can be thin. We shortlist with that in mind.
Usually. Land work and weather slip, so tell us as early as you can and we hold the property where notice allows, or re-shortlist within the same drive-time band so the crew stays put. Extra weeks continue on the same monthly invoice with no new contract.
We do — including the rural kit like oil boilers, septic systems and LPG. The crew calls one number and we arrange the fix, urgent issues out of hours included. It all sits inside the monthly service rather than landing as surprise extras on the lads.
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Need beds in Lydham? 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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