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Alston / Allendale / Barnard Castle / Knock in Cumbria area is probably best in England for remoteness. When I first passed my test back when diesel was so cheap you could afford to go for a drive for something to do, I would regularly drive all over between Derwent Reservoir and Cow Green Reservoir.

There are quite a few places that are off grid apart from telephone - the price of getting other services in can run into crazy money depending on the distance. You want a power line in a rural area from a source 500m away - £83,000 please. Works out cheaper to be off grid.

Still a hell of a lot of places up there, old, stone built farm cottages up there that have not been renovated but could be.