Later this year, we are going to move from Walthamstow to Aldersbrook in Wanstead. We are moving for a variety of reasons, but one is green space. I was very struck by the differences in these satellite photos from Yahoo, they are at the same zoom scale, 16.
Walthamstow is on the top. The brown patch is Walthamstow Cemetery, there is green space, but not a lot and it is in smaller patches.
Aldersbrook is below with Wanstead Flats to the south, Wanstead Park to the north and east. From Wanstead Flats you can cycle right up into Epping Forest, pretty much all in forest. These are half size reproductions of the original 600 odd pixel images, click to see them larger. The difference in the amount of green space amazed me, though the stripes to the north are a private golf course.
There are some trade offs, zone 4 on the Central line, as opposed to zone 3 on the faster Victoria line and a mid station rather than at the end of the line. It is also a good walk to the tube station, but we have a long walk to get to nursery at the minute, so not as much of an increase, every journey though. Still in London too, E11 or E12 postcode, the postcode boundary is in the middle of Aldersbrook for some odd reason, the council boundary hugs London Cemetery, which is the green portion on the east.
Quite looking forward to moving, we sold our house last week, well subject to contract. It'll be my first time living properly east of GMT too. Lastly, discovering that there was a places page for on Flickr for Wanstead made me happy.
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