Our Victorian house is an oasis of calm. Although we are in one of the most beautiful suburbs of London we are only 16 minutes by train from Waterloo, yet surrounded by beautiful parks, Kew Gardens and minutes from the River Thames. There are amazing shops, restaurants, cinemas and theatres. Ted Lasso on Apple TV was set in Richmond. The space Ours is an 1870 house in the historic Alberts area of Richmond. The house was extended recently and now offers a very large kitchen and living room which looks on to the garden. We have fast wifi. We take great satisfaction from the peaceful atmosphere we have created. Our guest bedroom has an en-suite bathroom and there is an additional shower and living room on the same floor. The lower ground floor contains a fully equipped kitchen, living room and access to our garden. The top floor contains our bedroom which is not for guest use but you are welcome to use our separate bathroom and study. Guests have access to the whole house and garden except our bedroom. Also please note we don't watch TV often and although there is a small TV it only receives free channels. We only watch TV on our computers using our fast internet. Guest access The whole house is for use except our bedroom which is not for guest use. Although our house has two bedrooms we only invite a couple or single person to stay in our en-suite guest bedroom on the 1st floor by the front door. We have an old TV but fast internet. Other things to note Our road is normally quiet as it is a cul-de-sac but we are under the Heathrow flight path (like all of Richmond) and so most days planes fly overhead for a few hours - but not at night. We don't normally use our TV and usually use our computers if we want to watch anything. Our TV works but it's not state-of-the art! Article from The Guardian newspaper Dec 6th 2023 below: It is home to London’s largest royal park as well as big-hitting tourist attractions such as Kew Gardens and Hampton Court Palace, and has more recently become a place of pilgrimage for fans of the hit TV comedy Ted Lasso. Now, the borough of Richmond upon Thames in south-west London has been named “the happiest place to live” in Great Britain. It received the accolade from property website Rightmove, which runs a “happy at home” index – now in its 12th year – where it asks residents how they feel about their area based on 13 “happiness factors”. This is the first time a London location has taken the top spot. Last year, St Ives in Cornwall topped the table and in 2021 it was the market town of Hexham in Northumberland. This time round, those two locations were ranked ninth and 10th place, respectively. In second and third place this year were Winchester in Hampshire and the town of Monmouth in Wales. Residents of the borough of Richmond scored it highly for “feeling a sense of belonging to the area and being comfortable to be themselves”, as well as its access to nature and green spaces. About half of the borough is parkland: as well as the vast Richmond Park, with its ancient woods and historic herds of deer, there is Bushy Park, Hampton Court Park, Old Deer Park, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and London Wetland Centre in Barnes. The River Thames runs for more than 10 miles through the borough. Richmond upon Thames has long been a favourite retreat for royalty, as well as the rich and famous, and you arguably need to be pretty wealthy to be able to afford to live there now. The current average asking price for a home in the borough is just shy of £1m (£952,305) – almost three times the £362,000 average for Great Britain – while the average asking rent is £3,148 a month, said Rightmove.