WEEKS are not as long as they once were thanks to advances in hybrid working, meaning that more of us are prepared to venture further out of the capital in search of a house. The countryside that lies to the south of London, taking in Kent, the Surrey Hills and the South Downs, has been a hunting ground for house buyers since the dawn of commuting, which was spearheaded by the opening of the London & Greenwich Railway in 1836 and oxygenated by the huge expansion of the network in the 1840s. Here, we hone in on the best areas within a one-to-two-hour train ride south of the capital.
Down South
As a general rule of thumb, property buyers will know that the further down the track you go, the lower the house prices will be. Although that’s generally true of the southern region, prices do creep up in certain
