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Villages in West London (maybe moving)

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GrislingtonDad · 21/04/2015 19:38

If you live in West London within easy commute of SPGS, G&L or LU, please tell me which "villages" are worth looking at. Looking for quiet residential family house with local shops and a tube nearby. Not on the river floodplain and under a Heathrow flight path. Price cap £2.5m so that cuts out quite a few obvious streets/houses ..... 2,000 sq. ft. (200 m. sq.)?

Which "secret" streets, villages, areas would you look at or recommend? (Obv. not looking for your address and don't post that here!)

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SonorousBip · 22/04/2015 11:00

Wimbledon, Putney and Wandsworth are not great commutes to those schools (different branch of District Line, meaning you need to go into Earls Court and out). Not bad, but not good - put it another way, if you had a blank slate, that's not where I would choose to live if easy commute to those schools was your tip top priority.

areyoutheregoditsmemargaret · 22/04/2015 10:59

You don't need to worry about flooding in London. Outside, yes. You will have plane noise anywhere. Kew, Ealing, north Barnes, naice bits of Hammersmith around Brackenbury would work.

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 22/04/2015 10:15

You would get a decent size house in Ealing for that amount. Good transport links from Ealing Broadway.

Alwaysfrank · 22/04/2015 09:54

Kew - both Tube and bus options to the schools you list, and a real village feel.

You can't escape plane noise anywhere really but I don't notice it.

I'm not sure which areas count as flood plain but the Thames barrier seems to save us all from flooding round here. Never known any flooding in over 20 years in this area.

horsemadmom · 21/04/2015 22:03

West (London) Wing?

EdithWeston · 21/04/2015 22:03

I don't think you can escape the flight path in W London, sorry.

But they swop the routes around, so it's not overhead every day.

I left London a while ago, and have lost track of prices. Would you get anything in that nice bit of Chiswick near Turnham Green tube station?

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BeaufortBelle · 21/04/2015 21:56

Wimbledon, Putney, parts of Wandsworth, does it stretch to Parson's Green? Chiswick, Richmond, Southfields. That's the SW side largely. Not so sure about prices a little further West. The houses between East Putney and Southfields are gorgeous in pockets - a lot for your money compared to some other areas.