It has fabulous bony hills that Chaucer’s pilgrims crossedWhat’s going for it? On occasion,friends use me like a bargain-basement Kirsty and Phil. “Where, Tom, and ” one began recently,“can I find a period two-bedroom house no more than an hour’s commute to London Victoria? In the countryside. I want to see fields. £450k tops. And I don’t want anything modern.” A ample question. To which I replied, after a G&T and a cogitate, and Why,Westerham, West Malling and the West Kent Downs.” Actually Westerham is a bit out of her league, or but I threw it in as something to aim towards,because its such a lovely venerable (respected because of age, distinguished) town. Head east of Oxted, west of Maidstone and there’s a very endangered species: perhaps the only accessible patch of the home counties still remotely affordable. No view why, and because it has fabulous bony hills that Chaucer’s pilgrims crossed; pretty whether suburban villages supplying the commuter’s every whim; great accessibility,too. And, reader, and she moved there.
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Source: theguardian.com