Opinions on Edgware (London HA8, NW9 etc) from anyone who lives there?

littlemouse122

Just wondered if there is anyone living in the Edgware/Mill Hill area(s) of London? Have seen a few nice, reasonably priced houses around the area of both HA8 and NW9 but would like to know residents opinions of the area, i.e. crime, type of population (lots of old people, yuppies, middle class etc), schools, parks, shopping areas etc? Also what the transport links are like?

Would be great if anyone could give me some idea. We are a couple in our 30s with a baby and hopefully another one in the next few years.

Thanks.

ds1980

ups and downs. good areas are still "reasonably" priced. If you can say that in London! Usually 3 bed semis in the area. Transport links are not bad. burnt oak a bit of a dump. Mill Hill is not bad if you can stretch to a property there but again can be quite expensive in certain areas. Schools im not sure of but im sure theyll be someone along soon!

I should read posts more carefully

NW9 dump but im sure people would disagree. HA8 can be nice and a bit more rural. Bit more isolated however.

Angelboots

Hi

Try this website it has a lot of good information about different areas. I used this before i decided on the area i wanted to live and found it very helpful.

It will tell you about the population of the area, average house prices, crime rates, transport, council tax payments etc..

http://www.upmystreet.com/l/edgware.html

K

rainbowtrout

Edgware is going downhill (as can be seen from the increasing no. of discount shops in the centre). However housing isn't too bad, quite good value for London really. Edgware itself has a mainly middle class white population, a fair no. of Jewish people. Burnt Oak quite middle eastern nowadays. Colindale has a large Chinese population probably due to close proximity of two large Chinese shopping centres nearby. Young couples are the norm, if there's a lot of old people around they probably don't wander around for fear of being mugged. In terms of safety it's not too bad, I've personally never been mugged but know a few people who have been in the Edgware station area. Night life nil. Barnet has decent secondary schools but don't know about primary schools. No idea about Mill Hill.

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I live a couple of miles away, up the road in Borehamwood. Transport: you've got edgeware tube, Mill hill tube (both difference branches of the northern line), Mill hill train station.

it's a diverse area, Edgeware has had a recent influx of immigration (a ripple effect spreading out from the centre of london). I can only speak from my own experience, but i know it's historically been an area with a high Jewish population (as is much of north london).

Where I live is one of the new boom areas, since house prices haven't shot up as much and you can still get a train to Kings Cross in 22 minutes on the Thames link. There's been a boom in hotel building.. so the local economy must be good (New Ibis, Travel Inn, Village, Premier travel inn)

I would never live in 'central' edgeware.. far too built up for my liking (and over priced). The high street is a bit of a dump also. I use to live in Golders Green so I know what the buses are like.. pretty good, fairly regular without much trouble going on in them. The northern line can be a nightmare and I really wouldn't want to commute all the way to the top.. it's so damn packed.

Mill hill can be very nice, especially towards Totteridge/Finchley

The only real way you can tell is by looking for some houses on sale, then take a drive around.

ds1980

rainbowtrout wrote: »

Edgware is going downhill (as can be seen from the increasing no. of discount shops in the centre). However housing isn't too bad, quite good value for London really. Edgware itself has a mainly middle class white population, a fair no. of Jewish people. Burnt Oak quite middle eastern nowadays. Colindale has a large Chinese population probably due to close proximity of two large Chinese shopping centres nearby. Young couples are the norm, if there's a lot of old people around they probably don't wander around for fear of being mugged. In terms of safety it's not too bad, I've personally never been mugged but know a few people who have been in the Edgware station area. Night life nil. Barnet has decent secondary schools but don't know about primary schools. No idea about Mill Hill.

Mill hill schools are good parmeters, mill hill county, haberdashers down the road in aldenham but these are extremely hard to get into. These are secondary. There are some schools with bad press London academy being one but these are the schools taht get millions of pounds because they underperform so they are actually better but they do tend to have a larger mix of foreign students

ds1980

ringo_24601 wrote: »

I live a couple of miles away, up the road in Borehamwood. Transport: you've got edgeware tube, Mill hill tube (both difference branches of the northern line), Mill hill train station.

it's a diverse area, Edgeware has had a recent influx of immigration (a ripple effect spreading out from the centre of london). I can only speak from my own experience, but i know it's historically been an area with a high Jewish population (as is much of north london).

Where I live is one of the new boom areas, since house prices haven't shot up as much and you can still get a train to Kings Cross in 22 minutes on the Thames link. There's been a boom in hotel building.. so the local economy must be good (New Ibis, Travel Inn, Village, Premier travel inn)

I would never live in 'central' edgeware.. far too built up for my liking (and over priced). The high street is a bit of a dump also. I use to live in Golders Green so I know what the buses are like.. pretty good, fairly regular without much trouble going on in them. The northern line can be a nightmare and I really wouldn't want to commute all the way to the top.. it's so damn packed.

Mill hill can be very nice, especially towards Totteridge/Finchley

The only real way you can tell is by looking for some houses on sale, then take a drive around.

Would you advocate Borehamwood Ringo? Good transport predominabtly jewish area and vast influx of money it seems over the last few yaers? Looking to buy in that area.

I think you get great value for money there. Radlett and other places are nice but overpriced if you ask me?

gazzak_2

I moved away from Harrow last year. Edgware is slowly going the same way as Harrow, but you may have 5 years until it's "gone". Harrow now has no choice of secondary school for my kids, has an awful crime rate, is dangerous after dark and has a very high immigrant population. Harrow council are absolutely cr4p.

Edgware still has some extremely nice parts to live in though if you can afford it, and a high Jewish population. That's all I know.

carolt

Can't say too much on Edgware, safe but dull I think.

ds1980, Borehamwood is a hole. Local paper is full of stories of Borehamwood crimes, man there set alight and burnt to death outside his home there few years back.

Cheap, but for a reason.

silvercar

Parts of borehamwood are improving as is the shopping; when next. M&S and starbucks move in you know an area is improving.

lots of new housing around: studio 152, tamar place, wordsworth gardens., gate close

Elstree and Radlett will always be nicer and greener than Borehamwood, houses are larger and more expensive.

Schools tend to be extreme with nothing much in the middle. Haberdashers and Aldenham private schools with very good reputations. Hertswood comp, large rough school in Borehamwood with low results. A lot of children travel out of the area on council provided coaches, so the catchment area covers schools in St Albans, Barnet and Parmitters in Watford.

Biggie

seems most points covered above.

Edgeware is big place so obviousily some areas are far from transport,
but some v. nice parts to edgeware, not so nice are parts of colindale and burnt oak which border edgeware.

Another advantage is it has some good road links A41,A5, M1