Lynton, South West • England
High above the Bristol Channel, Lynton is a small Victorian town on the edge of Exmoor in North Devon, South West England, in the EX postcode area. It clings to the hillside above Lynmouth on the A39, with Barnstaple the nearest larger town down the coast. KrewBase arranges whole serviced houses and flats for crews working around Lynton and the Exmoor coast — bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in, parking checked against your actual vehicles, and one monthly invoice for the whole crew.
Lynton's housing stock is old and characterful: Victorian terraces and cottages stacked along the steep valley sides, plus a scattering of stone and rendered houses in Lynmouth below and the hamlets along the A39. Off-street parking is the detail that sorts the workable houses from the rest, because these are narrow hillside streets where a works van needs planning. Every property we shortlist is checked in person for parking, heating and a kitchen that can cope with a working crew, and we weed out anything that only looks good in a photo.
Because Lynton itself is small, we often look a little further along the coast and inland towards Parracombe and Combe Martin. A fifteen-minute drive can buy easier parking, a bigger house and gentler mornings, and out here that trade is usually worth it. Your crew still gets a whole property either way, and we will tell you straight what the drive to site looks like at shift time rather than sell you a pretty postcard with a nightmare commute attached.
Crews working across North Devon and the Exmoor coast book with us for construction and housing maintenance in the coastal towns, roofing and stonework on the older buildings, utility and grid jobs across the moor, and seasonal work tied to the tourism economy that keeps this stretch of coast busy. We keep job references generic on purpose — the details are your business — but the work is steady, physical and needs a proper house with a washing machine, not a hotel corridor with a trouser press.
The coast also has a sharp summer season. When visitor trade peaks around Lynton, Lynmouth and the harbour villages, beds tighten fast and prices climb with them, and the guest houses that might take a worker in February are full of holidaymakers by June. If your job runs between spring and autumn, it is worth getting dates in early. We can pencil in a house while the site confirms, and it costs nothing to ask.
The A39 is the town's lifeline: it runs east to Minehead and the M5, and west along the coast towards Barnstaple and the North Devon link road. From most of Lynton, Barnstaple is around 40 minutes and Minehead nearer 30, so one well-placed house can serve sites along a long stretch of the Exmoor coast without anyone packing a bag. The lanes off the A39 are slow, though — honest drive times matter more than map pins here, and we treat them that way.
Crews run vans, so we shortlist by real drive time from your site postcode, not straight-line distance. Give us the location and we rank every option by the actual morning commute, whether the job is along the coast, up on the moor or inland towards South Molton. If the drive looks grim — and on Exmoor it sometimes does — we say so before you book, not after the crew has moved in and discovered it the hard way.
Every KrewBase let is a whole property — the crew gets the entire house or flat, with bills in our name: council tax, gas and electric, water and broadband. Wi-Fi is tested before check-in so the first evening is spent settling in, not on hold to a provider, parking is checked against the actual vehicles, and for five or more we look for two bathrooms as standard. A weekly clean with fresh linen is included, and any maintenance comes to us rather than your crew or your gaffer.
You get one monthly invoice covering rent and bills paid by card, with no booking fees and no agent extras added along the way. Send the site postcode, crew size and rough dates, and we aim to have a checked, available shortlist back to you within two working hours. The house is then held for your crew, the paperwork is one page, and everyone gets on with the job instead of the admin around it.
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.
Send the site postcode, crew size and rough dates, and we aim to have a checked, available shortlist back within two working hours. Each option comes with photos, parking notes and an honest drive time from site, so you can say yes or no without a dozen phone calls or a wasted site visit.
Parking is the first thing we check, because Lynton's hillside streets are tight and a works van is not squeezing into a gap meant for a hatchback. We only shortlist houses where your actual vehicles fit — and we note it on the listing with photos, so there are no surprises on the first morning.
Lynton itself, Lynmouth, and the coastal and moorland villages along the A39 towards Minehead, Combe Martin and Parracombe. If the drive from site makes a village work better than the town, we will say so and shortlist there instead — the commute wins over the postcode every time.
Yes. Council tax, gas and electric, water and broadband all go in our name, so the crew is never chasing meter readings or splitting costs at the kitchen table. Wi-Fi is tested before check-in, and if anything drops mid-stay, maintenance is our problem, not yours.
That is exactly how it works. Rent and bills arrive as one monthly invoice, paid by card, with no booking fees and no agent extras. One bill, one finance contact, one reference for the whole stay — whatever the crew size or the length of the job.
We do. The crew reports a fault to us, we book the tradesperson and it gets fixed without your gaffer spending a morning on the phone. The weekly clean and linen change is part of the arrangement too, so the house stays decent however long the job runs.
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Need beds in Lynton? 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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