Rent Houses Guildford

Posted by admin in Surrey

Rent Houses Surrey

Approximate Population: 66,773

is the county town of Surrey, England, as well as the seat for the borough of and the administrative headquarters of the South East England region.   It is situated some 43 km (27 miles) southwest of London on the A3 trunk road linking the capital to Portsmouth.

The town has Saxon roots, and likely owes its location to the existence of a gap in the North Downs where the River Wey is forded by the Harrow Way. The town grew enough in importance by 978 to be the Royal Mint.   With the building of the Wey Navigation and Basingstoke Canal was in the centre of a network of waterways that aided its prosperity.

The pub bombing in 1974 killed five people including four off-duty soldiers from the local barracks.  The subsequently arrested suspects became known as the Four.

The stretch of the A3 extending from beneath the A31 (Hog’s Back) to Potter’s Lane is known as the Bypass and is busy at peak times since the A3 trunk road links to Portsmouth, London and the M25. The M3 and M4 motorways are within short distance. The A31 (known locally as the ‘Hog’s Back’ as it looks like the ridge of a hog’s back from aerial view) extends from to Farnham and is built on the old site of a Roman Road and made up part of the Pilgrim’s Way which extended from Winchester to Canterbury. Today, there is no direct route from Winchester to Canterbury and the A31 links to mid-Dorset (east of Dorchester). has a notorious one-way system in the town centre. There are other numerous minor A-Roads linking to various other places including Horsham, Woking, Godalming, Reading, Aldershot, Bracknell and Dorking.

Rent Houses Surrey

Rent Houses Milton Keynes

Posted by admin in Buckinghamshire

Rent Houses

Buckinghamshire

Approximate Population: 184,506

The flood plains of the Great Ouse and of its tributaries (the Ouzel and some brooks) have been protected as linear parks that run right through Milton Keynes.  The Grand Union Canal is another green route (and demonstrates the level geography of the town – there is just one minor lock in its entire 10 mile route through from Fenny Stratford to the “Iron Trunk” Aqueduct over the Ouse at Wolverton.

The redway system of cycleways and footpaths uses these and other routes.   The Park system was designed by landscape architect Peter Youngman, who also developed landscape precepts for the whole town: groups of grid squares were to be planted with different selections of trees and shrubs in order to give them distinct identities.   However the landscaping of parks and of the grid roads was evolved under the leadership of Neil Higson, who from 1977 took over as Chief Landscape Architect and made the original grand but not entirely practical landscape plan more subtle.

A policy of creating “settings, strings, beads” for landscape features was introduced: ’settings’ for historic villages and landscape features, ’strings’ of landscape to make the linear parks hang together and ‘beads’ of public space where residents might linger.   Higson also made the landscaping of the Grid Roads, one of the glories of , more subtle, with ‘windows’ cut into the roadside planting so that motorists travelling through had a sense of the major town they were in; early critics had said of ‘there is no there there’, as the town could not be seen by the motorist just passing through.   Now that the trees and shrubs have matured, the skill and lavish scale of the Grid Road planting makes a dramatic and welcome change from the monotony of many British towns.

Rent Houses

Buckinghamshire