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Getting around and nearby

Stations, parks and everyday places near the area, and a 1 to 10 score for how easy it is to get around by train.

Use it

See this on the map Closest to a station

A station within 400 m counts fully, then less and less, and nothing past 1,200 m.

Example

Station A is 300 m away with two tube lines: 2 points. Station B is 800 m away with one Overground line, and at that distance counts half: 0.5. Station C, 1,500 m away, is out of reach. 2.5 points give a score of 7 out of 10.

How we calculate it

Distances are straight lines from the area's centre, or from the home on a property page.
The score adds up every station within 1,200 m (about a 15-minute walk). A station within 400 m counts fully; further away it counts less, down to nothing at 1,200 m.
Each line at a station adds to it: tube, Elizabeth line, DLR and Overground lines 1 each, trams 0.7 and National Rail 0.6, because they run less often. One station counts at most 4.
The points become 1 to 10 on a curve where the first nearby station lifts the score most. 1 means no station within 1,200 m; 10 starts at 6 points, about the best-connected twentieth of London neighbourhoods. A typical neighbourhood scores 5.
Stations: the 6 nearest within 3 km, with fare zones and lines from TfL.
Parks and green spaces: the 6 nearest within 2 km, measured to their nearest edge and sized by the London Plan's classes, from pocket parks under 0.4 hectares to regional parks over 400.
Everyday places: supermarkets and corner shops, pubs and bars, cafés and restaurants, pharmacies and GPs. We show the 5 nearest of each within 1.5 km and count how many are within 800 m, about a 10-minute walk.
Walk to a station: each home is joined to the nearest OpenStreetMap path or street. The shortest walk to a rail, tube, metro, Overground, Elizabeth line, DLR or tram station entrance is timed at 4.8 km/h. An area's figure is the median over its homes, with the share of homes within 10 minutes. As a match factor, fewer minutes rank higher.
Food hygiene nearby: of the cafés, restaurants, canteens, takeaways, sandwich shops, pubs and bars within 800 m in a straight line of the area's centre that have a Food Hygiene Rating Scheme rating (0 to 5), the share rated 4 or 5. Exempt places and those awaiting inspection are left out, and an area with fewer than 5 rated places nearby shows no share. It describes the food places, not the people who live in the area.

The fine print

Buses are not counted in the score.
Walk times skip motorways, trunk roads without a footway and private paths. Lifts, stairs, crossings and waiting are not timed. Stations up to 10 km beyond the region count; walks over about two hours can read long. Outside London, homes are the addresses with an energy certificate (EPC).
Distances are straight lines, not walking routes; a river or railway can make the real walk longer.
OpenStreetMap is kept up to date by volunteers, so a new shop or a closed pub may be missing.
Fare zones and lines are TfL's; a station TfL does not list shows them as unknown.
When no places are loaded the page says unknown, never "nothing nearby".
Places: OpenStreetMap (Geofabrik England extract, 20 October 2026), © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence 1.0.
Walk to a station: built from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Only the station list and area aggregates are published; the walking network is not redistributed.
A food hygiene rating describes the business on the day of its last inspection, which can be months or years ago.
Food hygiene ratings: Food Standards Agency (ratings.food.gov.uk), extract of 6 October 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.