Information on Hanwell please!!!

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I'd be really grateful if you could help me out with the googling and rightmoving, as I have never been there!
We are moving back to London from overseas and can't afford the areas we'd like to live in and used to rent in West London.
So, there is a plan for Reigate, Surrey, and I'd like to have a counter-point in West London.

Which bits of Hanwell are pretty to look at and which bits are considered rough? I'm trying to do google mapping and street view but internet is too slow!

Basically we need the usual thing everyone wants. Close to station and good schools, secondary and primary. However also really need it to be ok for young teenage girls to walk around by themselves and be fairly independent, so busy enough and close enough to shops (is there a high street?).

I take it there is a nice park/playgrounds?

Any pointers much appreciated! I keep staring at the map but it means nothing to me!

Hey all,
I am coming to this chat much later, but still interested in finding out about life in the "rougher" bits of Hanwell.
We have an almost 4yo and our new house will be near Brentside primary academy and we have another baby on the way. We will be moving from Shepherds Bush and I am so anxious about the quiteness of the area, BUT we get a bigger house. That old dilemma...
So first of all is it safe?
Any opinions on primary schools and nurseries?
Brentside, Mayfield, Hobbayne
And any parents groups you might know?

Ealing 135 if probably the best place to start. They set up WhatsApp groups for mums with similar age babies and the Facebook group can help answer your questions.
https://poplocal.co.uk/hanwell has local listings but not much in North Hanwell (which given the suburb is so stretched it's closer to Greenford than South Hanwell). I think there's also stuff at North Hanwell Baptist church and the community centre (eg by the Welsh school).
I think those schools are meant to be fine, they're just not ones pushy middle class parents fight over.