Yatton Keynell, South West • England
Yatton Keynell is a small Wiltshire village in the SN postcode area of England's South West, a few miles west of Chippenham and within easy reach of the M4 at junction 17. It sits in the quiet countryside between the Cotswolds and the M4 corridor — exactly the sort of place where a crew house beats the nearest hotel by miles. KrewBase houses crews in whole serviced properties in and around the village: bills, Wi-Fi and parking in, one monthly invoice to your company.
This is classic north Wiltshire countryside: honey-stone cottages, period farmhouses, and newer detached houses on the edge of the village and towards Castle Combe and the A420. Crews do best in the newer properties — driveways rather than verge parking, modern heating and bathrooms, and a layout where five or six people aren't queueing for a single shower before an early start on site.
Rural placements get extra scrutiny from us before they reach your shortlist. We verify the heating system and its fuel, the hot water capacity, the drainage and the broadband speed, because a lovely old cottage with an oil boiler, a septic tank and one bathroom is a lovely old cottage — not a crew house, however good it looked in the photographs the agent sent over.
The M4 corridor keeps work flowing through this part of Wiltshire: construction and housing development around Chippenham and the growing villages, logistics along the motorway, highway and infrastructure maintenance, energy and grid jobs, and manufacturing support in the region. Crews also use the area as a base for jobs spreading into the Cotswolds and towards Bath and Bristol, depending on where the contract takes them.
A village-base crew house suits this pattern better than a town-centre hotel ever could. The team is minutes from the M4 for early starts, but comes home to somewhere quiet with a kitchen, a washing machine and a proper night's sleep — which shows up in the quality of the work long before it shows up anywhere a spreadsheet can measure it.
Chippenham is only a few miles east along the B4039 and A420, and the M4 at junction 17 is within about fifteen minutes depending on the site. From there the motorway runs east towards Swindon and Reading or west towards Bath and Bristol, and the A420 links through towards Oxfordshire if the job heads that way. Castle Combe and the Cotswold lanes to the south are scenic but slow, whatever the map claims.
We shortlist by drive time from the site gate at shift-change hours, not straight-line distance. Around here that discipline matters more than most places: a house that looks five miles from site can be twenty minutes around the lanes behind a tractor, and we'd rather your crew had those minutes in bed or at breakfast than spent them on a B-road.
The whole property, with bills — gas or oil, electric, water, council tax, broadband — in KrewBase's name, plus a weekly clean and fresh linen throughout the stay. Wi-Fi is tested before check-in, parking is confirmed against the vehicles your crew actually brings, and any property sleeping five or more has two bathrooms as a matter of course rather than as a special request.
Your company gets one monthly invoice, paid by card, with no booking fees and no minimum crew size or stay. Village stock is limited, so send the site postcode, headcount and start date as early as the job allows — the shortlist still comes back within two working hours, but the best rural houses let quickly once a contract lands in the area.
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.
Where the village stock allows, yes — and otherwise we shortlist in the surrounding villages and Chippenham's outskirts, ranked by drive time from your site. Rural Wiltshire rarely has purpose-built contractor lodging, so a whole serviced house is usually both the best and the only genuinely comfortable answer for a working crew.
Two working hours from enquiry to shortlist. Send the site address, crew size and start date and we'll respond with suitable whole houses. The earlier you enquire, the better the pick, since village properties let quickly when a job lands in the area — though we regularly turn urgent jobs around in a matter of days.
Yes — we check parking against your actual vehicles before check-in and only shortlist houses with driveways or guaranteed spaces that fit them. The newer detached houses around the village generally take two or three vehicles without trouble, and we confirm the fit in writing so there's no first-night surprise waiting on the kerb.
Yes. Gas or oil heating, electric, water, council tax and broadband all stay in our name, and the Wi-Fi is speed-tested before anyone moves in. The monthly invoice figure is the complete figure — nothing appears later as an extra, a reconciliation or a meter-reading dispute for your accounts team to untangle at quarter end.
That's exactly how it works. One monthly invoice, paid by card covers rent, bills, Wi-Fi, the weekly clean and linen, with no booking fees and no per-person deposits. Your accounts team handles one document a month and we deal with everything behind it — landlord, utilities, broadband provider and the trades when something needs fixing.
No. There's no headcount floor and no minimum duration — small crews on short jobs get the same bills-in, one-invoice setup as large crews on long contracts, with the same weekly clean and maintenance cover throughout. Give us your numbers and we'll match a house to them, whenever and however long the job runs.
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If Yatton Keynell is short on the right house for your crew, Bristol is the obvious back-up, roughly 18 miles away. See our contractor accommodation Bristol page for what we hold there. Small crews are as welcome as big ones.
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Need beds in Yatton Keynell? 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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