Oxenhall, South West • England
Oxenhall is a small village near Newent on the Gloucestershire side of the Forest of Dean, in the GL postcode area, a few miles north-west of Gloucester and close to the M50. KrewBase houses crews working across this patch in whole serviced properties, with bills, Wi-Fi and parking settled before check-in. Small crews on short jobs are priced and looked after exactly the same as larger ones. Your company gets one monthly invoice, paid by card.
Oxenhall itself is a handful of houses and farms along the lanes towards Newent, so suitable stock usually means the surrounding villages and Newent itself: brick and stone cottages, farmhouses, and detached houses from the 70s and 80s around the town's edges. We cast the net across this whole corner of the Forest fringe, wherever the drive to site works.
Every option is judged on the working week rather than the view: off-street parking for vans, enough bathrooms for the headcount, heating that handles a wet Gloucestershire winter, and a kitchen the crew can actually cook in after a long shift. A pretty rural cottage that fails on those points does not make the list, however good it looks in the photographs.
Crews based here typically cover construction and housing development across the Forest of Dean and Gloucester's north, with steady maintenance work on the area's older rural housing. Gloucester and Cheltenham bring broader work across logistics, manufacturing, healthcare and public services, and agricultural-adjacent trades keep some crews moving through the countryside between bigger jobs. Forestry work in the Forest itself brings its own crews through at times.
Tell us the site, the shift pattern and the stay length, and we will shortlist to suit, from short contracts to longer placements. Rural programmes slip with the weather, so extensions and date changes are treated as a normal part of the job rather than an inconvenience. Weather shapes the calendar here, and bookings flex with it without fuss. Short bookings get the same per-head pricing as long ones, so a fortnight's job receives full attention.
The M50 crosses the area to the west, with its junctions a short drive away and the A417 linking towards Ledbury, Hereford and the M5 near Tewkesbury. Gloucester is roughly twenty minutes south-east and Cheltenham sits within reach beyond it. For rail, Gloucester and Ledbury are the practical stations, and the M50 gives fast road access for crews arriving by van from the motorway network. Hereford lies to the north for jobs running up the A49 corridor.
Where sites sit deep in the Forest we shortlist by measured drive time, because the straight line on a map and the actual road can differ a lot here. The crew's start time shapes the calculation, not just the distance. Seasonal tourism traffic on the A40 and M50 is factored into summer commute estimates. Winter fog on the lowland roads is another factor weighed when timing early starts.
The crew takes the whole property with kitchen, living space, washing machine and proper beds rather than bunks. Bills are in our name, so gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband are all included in the rate, and Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in. Crews of five or more get two bathrooms, and a weekly clean with fresh linen comes as standard.
Repairs are our problem from day one, however rural the house. One monthly invoice, paid by card, no booking fees, and no minimum crew or stay: the booking fits the job, not the other way round, and one named contact looks after everything. Extensions, shortenings and crew changes all run through the same contact, so nothing gets lost between departments. Broadband and mobile signal are checked on rural properties before they ever reach the shortlist.
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.
A village of this size rarely has stock at exactly the right moment, so the shortlist usually runs across nearby Newent and the surrounding villages towards the Forest of Dean and Gloucester. Every property proposed is checked for parking, bathrooms and drive time to your site first, so the wider net costs you nothing in quality.
Give us headcount, site location and dates and we aim to return a priced shortlist within about two hours in a working day. Rural searches cover more ground than town ones, but each option is verified and the price you see is the invoice figure, with no booking fees or hidden extras added later.
Usually yes on rural properties, where driveways and yards are common, but we confirm against your actual vehicles before you book. We also note access constraints, such as narrow lanes or tight gates, so a larger van is never surprised on arrival night and the crew can unpack straight into the house.
Gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband are held in our name and included, with Wi-Fi speed-tested before check-in. Anything that breaks is reported to KrewBase and fixed by local contractors, with emergencies dealt with the day they are raised. The crew and your office stay out of landlord duties.
Yes, that is the standard arrangement. Rent, bills, cleaning and linen sit on one monthly invoice, payable paid by card, with no booking fees and nothing passing through crew members' personal cards. One accounts contact deals with everything from booking to checkout, and the paperwork stays the same however rural the property.
Yes. We take shift patterns at enquiry stage and shortlist properties where a crew coming home at 6am will not cause friction, with enough bathrooms to avoid queues and heating suited to winter nights. Mention the pattern when you enquire and the shortlist will reflect it from the start.
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Oxenhall sits about 35 miles from Bristol. Plenty of crews working here base themselves in the city and drive out, especially on longer jobs or when the local supply is thin. Our contractor accommodation Bristol page covers houses across the wider area — two people or twenty, same service.
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