Holiday home locations easily accessible from SW London

[DonGray]

Just day dreaming really...

We have friends with houses in the New Forest and the Witterings but they seem too far to go for just a weekend

Where else is nice and easily accessible from SW London?

Isle of Wight.

hmmm

Bruton. Love it!

You try my town. We’ve been inundated by people moving here from London/ buying holiday homes here. But I’m not sharing because the house prices have rocketed and I want the young people who live here to be in with a chance of being able to afford to get on the property ladder…

They're only what, 1.5- 2 hrs drive tops from SW London? I'd say they are perfect.

Anywhere on he south coast if Dorset?

2 hours seems too far but I guess if only 1 hour then it's a holiday in Croydon

Surely geography dictates that you'd be hard pushed to find anywhere coastal less than 1.5 hrs from London?

Exactly the geography means nearly 2 hours from SW London anyway.

The Witterings are ideal. Or somewhere like Rye or Whitstable.

Otherwise an hour say directly south of SW London is just outside Guildford! Personally I don't call that holiday home hotspot. (Nothing wrong with Guildford at all.)

Why would anyone buy a second home so close to their main home??? Just commute many do from the coast. There's not enough houses as it is without greedy people having 2.

This is going to turn into Holiday Home Bingo.

‘Greedy and selfish’ have already been called

Glad you're only 'daydreaming'.

If you think the areas you’ve mentioned are ‘too far’ I think you’re going to struggle and are a bit weird

Surely it’s got to feel a little bit different to home and many people might like something near the coast.

It doesn't have to be coastal but definitely looking for rural or is that just not possible?

Of course it's possible but you do have to be prepared to allow the journey enough time to get further than the M25!

Do you have access to a map, in your dreamlike state?

Or course rural is possible! Loads of rural places nearish London. It just depends how much you want to spend....

I regularly go to stay with a friend in Weymouth for weekends, easily doable in 2 hours from SW London on a Friday evening.

Meon Valley.

Somewhere on a fast train line.

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/115440815

Straight up the M40 easy drive from SW London

@DonGray

Just day dreaming really...

We have friends with houses in the New Forest and the Witterings but they seem too far to go for just a weekend

Where else is nice and easily accessible from SW London?

These are both perfectly normal day trips from SW London, and easily do-able for a weekend. Prices however may not be achievable, both £££

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/118197065

Bourbon on the water is very pretty

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/86612899

Quieter Coteswolds village & 3 beds

Petworth, Goodwood or areas around them.