Yorkshire Woods

Yorkshire Woods is a neighborhood of detached single-family homes in Montgomery Township, Somerset County, built mostly from the mid-1990s through about 2005. It pairs two things Princeton-area buyers look for and rarely find together: a Princeton 08540 mailing address and the top-ranked Montgomery Township Public Schools, in a detached house with a low homeowners association fee. The streets carry English, Yorkshire-inspired names such as York Drive, Blackstone Drive, and Kirby Circle, and the homes are large enough for growing families. Recent BrightMLS closings have clustered in the $925,000 to $990,000 range, with a median near $955,000.

The homes

The community is entirely detached single-family homes, most of them built in the mid-to-late 1990s with construction continuing into the mid-2000s. Floor plans run mainly four bedrooms, with some five-bedroom homes, two to three baths, and roughly 2,229 to 2,796 square feet, so there is room for a home office or a larger family without stepping up to a much higher price tier. Many homes have two-car garages and private backyards. One feature that sets Yorkshire Woods apart from most detached communities is the homeowners association fee, which is low, roughly $37 to $67 a month, so buyers get the shared upkeep of an HOA without the larger monthly carrying cost that comes with amenity-heavy communities.

The setting

Yorkshire Woods sits on a network of quiet, English-named streets, including York Drive, Kirby Circle, Blackstone Drive, Bolton Circle, Quincy Court, Pickering Circle, Danby Court, and Borrowby Circle, in a residential corner of Montgomery Township. The setting is calm and low-traffic, away from the busier commercial parts of central New Jersey, while Route 206 and the wider Somerset County road network keep everyday shopping, Princeton, and the Route 1 corridor within a short drive. The Princeton 08540 mailing address places the community in Princeton's orbit for daily life, even though the town and schools are Montgomery.

Schools

Every home in Yorkshire Woods is served by the Montgomery Township Public Schools, consistently one of the top-ranked public districts in New Jersey and the main draw for buyers targeting this community. This is the distinction worth understanding: the neighborhood carries a Princeton mailing address but is part of Montgomery Township, so students attend Montgomery schools rather than the Princeton district. For many families that is exactly the appeal, a top district paired with a Princeton-address home at a more attainable price than comparable detached houses inside the Princeton school district.

Market position

With recent closings in the $925,000 to $990,000 range and a median near $955,000, Yorkshire Woods sits just below the million-dollar mark. Homes here have changed hands recently from the mid-$950,000s to just under $990,000, and while one 2024 sale reached $1.10 million, that was an occasional high rather than the norm. The combination of a detached house, a low HOA, top Montgomery schools, and a Princeton mailing address is what sustains demand, and it typically prices below comparable detached homes that carry a Princeton school-district address. Because only a handful of homes trade here in a given year, pricing accurately against the true comparables within the community is where working with an agent who tracks Yorkshire Woods closely pays off.