Stow cum Quy, East of England • England
Five miles east of Cambridge, Stow cum Quy is a Cambridgeshire village in the East of England, postcode area CB, where the A14 and the old Newmarket road funnel traffic between Cambridge and Suffolk. Crews working across south Cambridgeshire often find it the quiet middle ground: close to Cambridge's sites without Cambridge's rents. KrewBase sources whole serviced houses and flats around Stow cum Quy, keeps the bills in our name, and bills your company once a month.
Stow cum Quy itself is compact — a ribbon of village houses, some handsome period properties, and newer infill along the Cambridge road. Crew-sized lets in the village are occasional rather than constant, so we shortlist across the surrounding belt: Quy and Bottisham along the A1303, the new estates spreading out of east Cambridge, and newer villages where drives and garages come as standard. The filters don't move: real beds, two bathrooms for five or more, and parking sized to the vehicles you'll actually bring.
Everything orbiting Cambridge ends up out here at some point. Crews based around Stow cum Quy cover laboratory and campus fit-outs, the endless cycle of housing development across the Cambridge fringe, highway work along the A14 and A11 corridors, and logistics from the distribution parks at the city's edge. Healthcare contracts pull crews towards the Cambridge hospitals and the surrounding trusts. Sites shift constantly, which is exactly why we let whole houses on flexible terms rather than fixed lets.
The A14 runs within a couple of miles, linking the M11 to the north, Newmarket and the A11 to the east, and the Midlands westbound. The A1303 drops straight into Cambridge in about fifteen minutes off-peak, and Cambridge North station — on the King's Cross and Liverpool Street lines — is five miles away. Newmarket sits about ten miles east along the Newmarket road. When the site is somewhere the main roads don't serve, we build the shortlist on actual drive time from the gate, not straight-line distance.
One whole house or flat, bills in our name — council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband, with the Wi-Fi tested before anyone moves in. Parking is checked against the vehicles on your booking, and for crews of five plus we look for two bathrooms as standard. Weekly cleaning and fresh linen are in the rate, maintenance lands with us, and your company pays one monthly invoice, paid by card. No booking fees, and stays scale from a fortnight up to the best part of a year.
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 hours during the working day is our standard. Send the site address, headcount and vehicles, and we'll come back with whole properties that fit — parking, beds and bathrooms already checked against your crew. If the site sits towards Newmarket or along the A14, we'll say which houses suit which direction.
Yes — Cambridge, Cherry Hinton, Teversham, Bottisham, Quy and across to Newmarket are all in scope. If a city house works for the crew we'll offer it; if an edge-of-village house gives easier parking and a shorter drive, we'll show you that instead and explain the trade-off.
It's verified before booking, not promised in an advert. We match drive or garage space to the number and size of vehicles you list — transits, pick-ups and cars included. If a house can't hold the whole crew's vehicles off the street, it doesn't make the shortlist.
That's the standard arrangement: one invoice a month covering rent, bills, broadband, cleaning and linen, paid by card. We set up PO references or cost-centre lines once at the start, and they carry through every invoice. No booking fees and no card payments from crew members.
Tell us as early as possible and we'll extend the same house, or move the crew to a like-for-like property if that one is promised elsewhere. The bills and weekly clean carry on unchanged and the monthly invoice simply continues — there's no rebooking fee for running long.
Cost is the obvious one past a fortnight, but a house also means a kitchen, a washing machine, proper parking and room to breathe after a shift. Hotels near Cambridge charge city prices and spread a crew across corridors. A crew house keeps the gang together and the laundry off the expenses claim.
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Need beds in Stow cum Quy? 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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