…It's a rock solid family area with wide open green spaces all around.

Traffic is free flowing and it's a pleasure to be able to drive around easily. Most houses are detached with drive-ways so roads are not clogged with parked cars.

Four local hospitals to choose from: Epsom, Tolworth, Kingston & Queen Mary. Four local shopping centres to choose from: Epsom, Leatherhead, Surbiton & Kingston. Two good secondary schools for girls: Tolworth Girls School & Coombe.

Chessington is a quiet, residential area, not many clubs or pubs.

Highly recommended for bringing up children.
S.A Page

…My reasons for choosing Chessington include more space, lower crime, good transport and high-quality schools, including the top performing Ellingham Primary School.

Chessington is an attractive tree-lined town with an abundance of green spaces, yet is only 35 minutes from Waterloo Station.  At the same time it is easy to get into London (A3, M25) and easy to leave the country, as Heathrow and Gatwick are just half an hour away.

Good choice of attractive houses in quiet, leafy avenues and cul-de-sacs with prices rising steadily rather than soaring. Ideal place for people who want to be in the country without feeling remote.

Chessington is the next village out of London and is well placed to offer a good quality of living.
R. Oldfield

The shops are very accommodating and the area 1/2 hour from London by train or anywhere else by bus. 1 hour from the coast and plenty of greenery around.
J Loveridge

Regular train service straight to Waterloo, every half an hour.

So all in all, a good place for families but also for single people too.

I sent my boys to local schools and they are doing very well indeed.
The nicest residential part is probably the Bolton Road area. I just wish I could afford to live there.

There isn't much traffic for the World of Adventure round where I live (Chessington North) as most of the traffic comes through Leatherhead from the A3.
There are a few chip shops, Indian restaurants and pizza places, and a late night supermarket as well... and some nice pubs too.

For pizza ring up a pizza place in Tolworth (they deliver!).. there is fierce competition between pizza places there, if you are collecting the pizza yourself (about a 5-10min drive away), you are able to get some smashing deals... (like a huge pizza for 7:50 and I do mean huge!)

Oh yeah, transport is good. The train leaves every half hour from Chessington, also there are buses to Kingston (every 15 minutes), Leatherhead, Epsom, and Tolworth.

It is possible to survive without a car in Chessington, because you have got regular buses.

As for supermarkets, due to my job, I work weird hours.. (computing), so I tend to buy my food from 24-hour supermarkets (Tesco or Asda), which are about a 20 minute drive up the A3.

These types of places sell almost everything - put it this way, at about Wednesday 1:30am I was able to buy a swimming costume!

I live right by Chessington South Station which has services twice an hour.

Chessington is right on the edge of suburbia and a short walk will put you in the middle of Horton Country Park. There are lots of cycle paths and foot paths.

Chessington North has a parade of shops but we are only 10 minutes or so from Kingston.

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