Beacon Hill
Beacon Hill is an upscale community you’ll see when leaving downtown Leesburg on Route 7 westbound, a quick three-mile climb that trades the bustle of King Street for panoramic ridge-top views. Its closest-in position on the mountain side makes it one of Loudoun’s most coveted addresses, residents enjoy estate-lot privacy, sunset vistas, and horse-country serenity while still reaching historic Leesburg shops, restaurants, and commuter routes in under ten minutes.
The community is known for its custom estate homes many 7,000-10,000 sq ft on one- to eight-acre lots threaded by bridle paths and scenic views. An on-site equestrian center caters to Loudoun’s hunt-country lifestyle, and the former Johnny Miller golf course is being revived as The Preserve at Beacon Hill, promising championship play in the near future.
Real Estate
Beacon Hill occupies the ultra‑luxury apex of the Loudoun real estate market, routinely commanding price tags more than double the county median. Prices reflect the luxury of Beacon Hill with the median sale price around $1.8 million in early 2025, with recent listings ranging from the mid-$1.5 millions to well over $3 million for premier view lots. The exclusivity, Beacon Hill offers a relaxed, pastoral feel with wide lawns, stone fences, and quiet cul-de-sacs where evening horseback rides and mountain-top stargazing are part of everyday life.
Beacon Hill is designed so residents can ride, hike, golf, and gather without leaving their own community. Spread across 1,100 protected acres west of Leesburg, the neighborhood blends luxury living with Loudoun’s hunt-country roots and a dash of mid-century broadcast history.
Beacon Hill Equestrian Center
The equestrian center Clairvaux at Beacon Hill is a professionally run training center where horse culture anchors daily life. The 30-stall equestrian center boards residents horses, offers lesson programs, and opens both indoor and outdoor arenas, all connected to the community’s bridle-trail network. Full-time barn staff and professional trainers let serious riders keep horses steps from home. Residents can board their own horses or lease stalls by the month.
Miles of Private Trails
From every cul-de-sac a ribbon of grass or gravel slips into meadows and maple timber, forming a loop of horse, jogging, and dog-walking paths that criss-cross the development. Roughly one-third of Beacon Hill is deeded open space. Pastures, ponds, and rocky overlooks are placed under permanent conservancy easements, guaranteeing unbroken sunset panoramas toward the Blue Ridge and a healthy buffer for local wildlife. HOA trail maps show spurs linking each street to the larger greenbelt, so evening rides or stroller walks never touch main roads.
Golf Returns in 2025
After sitting idle since 2006, Beacon Hill’s Johnny Miller–designed course is being reborn as an 18-hole championship layout dubbed Beacon Hill Golf Club. Construction crews are finishing bunkers and greens complexes this spring, with the club hiring its director of golf in April 2025 and targeting first tee times by early summer. Residents will gain a walk-or-cart course, driving range, and new clubhouse minutes from their front doors.
Beacon Hill convivence
Beacon Hill enjoys a sweet‑spot location amid some of Loudoun’s signature destinations. Just two miles down Old Waterford Road, the National Historic Landmark village of Waterford offers 18th‑century stone houses, working farms, and seasonal craft fairs so residents can trade ridge‑top sunsets for colonial‑era strolls in under five minutes. Head southeast three miles and you reach Morven Park, Leesburg’s 1,000‑acre Historic Park with equestrian cross‑country courses, wooded hiking loops, and the stately Westmoreland Davis mansion, perfect for weekend trail rides or evening concerts without ever hitting Route 7 traffic.
Continue west on that same highway and in about ten minutes you’ll roll into Purcellville, a small‑town hub of farm‑to‑table dining, W\&OD Trail cycling, and Loudoun’s craft‑beer corridor. Together these neighbors frame Beacon Hill with history, recreation, and Main‑Street charm while keeping every errand, trailhead, or tasting room comfortably within a 15‑minute drive.
A Broadcast Legacy in Stone
Beacon Hill’s story stretches from farm tranquility to mid‑century celebrity buzz and, finally, to the luxury enclave you see today. Long before luxury homes arrived, Beacon Hill was the weekend retreat of 1950s radio-and-TV icon Arthur Godfrey. CBS even installed microwave towers on the ridge so Godfrey could broadcast live while recovering from surgery. Stone barns, a water-tower base, and the tower foundations still dot community open space, giving residents a tangible link to broadcast lore.
Godfrey also rechristened the property Beacon Hill a sentimental nod to Beacon Field Airport in Alexandria, where he had learned to fly in the 1930s. Why the name matters, Loudoun’s Beacon Hill honors an aviation beacon. Godfrey’s tribute still shapes the community logo and, today, stands as a reminder that the ridge’s first glow came from a pilot’s rotating airway light guiding him home to Virginia skies.