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What do you value on your street? Is there a great pub on the corner? A charming deli? Are you five minutes from a park, perfect for your hot-girl walks, or is there just a friendly neighbourhood cat always slinking around?
There’s so many things that make a great street, and defining which are the very best is no easy feat – but that hasn’t stopped the Telegraph from having a crack at it.
In partnership with estate agents Knight Frank, the Telegraph conducted a study that enlisted insight from local estate agents, looked at amenities and proximity to schools and transport, and compared house prices on certain streets with surrounding areas.
One of the bougiest entries on the list is Sandy Lane in Cobham, Surrey. The average neighbourhood price is a hefty £1.9 million, but what else can you expect from a ‘designer village’? It’s nestled on the very outskirts of greater London, and the commute to Waterloo takes only 38 minutes.
In fact, London is home to six of the 50 best streets, and you can read all about them here.
Cathedral Road in Portcanna is also included, and features tree-lined streets with stunning period villas. Cleveden Road in Glasgow is tucked away in West End, one of the world’s coolest neighbourhoods, and Runnymede in Ponteland is part of an exclusive estate, and has even been home to Alan Shearer.
The 50 best streets to live on in Britain, according to the Telegraph
- Kington Grange Road, Oadby, Leicester
- Parkside, Wollaton, Nottingham
- Dovedale Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham
- Barn Hill, Stamford, Lincolnshire
- Ladywood Road, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham
- Alderbook Road, Solihull, Birmingham
- Loxley Road, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire
- Westbourne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham
- Prior Park Road, Bath, Somerset
- De Mauley Road, Poole, Dorset
- The Strand, Topsham, Devon
- College Fields, Clifton, Bristol
- The Avenues, Harpenden, Hertfordshire
- The Drive, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire
- Grange Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Mount Crescent, Brentwood, Essex
- Macclesfield Road, Prestbury, Cheshire
- Hawthorne Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire
- Stamford Road, Hale, Greater Manchester
- St George’s Crescent, Chester, Cheshire
- Runnymede, Ponteland, Northumberland
- Graham Park Road, Gosforth, Newcastle
- Adderstone Crescent, Jesmond, Newcastle
- Potters Bank, Durham, County Durham
- Langbar Road, Ilkey, West Yorkshire
- Duchy Road, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
- Duchy Road, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
- Bootham, York, North Yorkshire
- Elm Grove, Barnes, Richmond-upon-Thames
- Copse Hill, Wimbledon, Merton
- Beech Hill, Hadley Wood, Barnet
- Gloucester Crescent, Camden Town, Westminster
- Goldsmith Avenue, Acton, Ealing
- Wood Street, Walthamstow, Waltham Forest
- Sandy Lane, Cobham, Surrey
- Charlington Road, Park Town, Oxford
- Marlborough Crescent, Sevenoaks, Kent
- Church Street, Charlbury, The Cotswolds
- Rubislaw Den North, Rubislaw, Aberdeen
- The Scores, St Andrews
- Cleveden Road, Cleveden, Glasgow
- Ledcameroch Road, Glasgow
- Moray Place, New Town, Edinburgh
- Inverleith Place, Stockbridge, Edinburgh
- Victoria Road, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan
- Lisvane Road, Llanishen, Cardiff
- Osbaston Road, Monmouth, Gwent
- St Anne’s Crescent, Langland, Swansea
- Cathedral Road, Portcanna, Cardiff
- Spencer Road, Ryde, Isle of Wight
Read more about the Telegraph’s choices on the official website here. The paper conducted another study recently into Britain's prettiest towns, and we at Time Out also reported on that. You can read about those picturesque towns here.
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