The Metropolitan railway station is five minutes walk from our house. There is a frequent train service which enables one to be inside any West End theatre just three-quarters of an hour after leaving the house (it is prudent to allow an hour for this journey).   London has an extraordinary variety of museums, art galleries, theatres, concert halls, clubs and happenings, famous buildings and historic sites - all of which are convenient to visit, thanks to the Metropolitan railway.

Harrow is a small town with the usual shopping Malls and retail outlets, Tesco,  Marks and Spencer,  BHS, etc and there are old-England shopping experiences in the quaint Chiltern towns such as Amersham, the Chalfonts, Rickmondsworth and many more about thirty minutes drive to the north and west with many pleasant hostelries offering rural atmosphere and good, reasonably priced food.   In  Harrow you can eat Indian, Chinese, Thai, Italian, French, Spanish within ½ mile.  Restaurant meals are smaller and more expensive than in most countries, typically £30/£40 for two, with wine, but food is cheap in the very competitive, ever-open super-markets.

The house is in a very quiet, safe street of similar period properties with some small flats here and there.  Five minutes steep uphill walk takes you to the heart of Harrow-on-the-Hill, dominated by the School, once attended unhappily by Winston Churchill and Anthony Trollop, and more enthusiastically by Lord Byron, the late King Hussein of Jordan and many Prime Ministers.  The school provides some miles of green for strolling.

To go further afield is not difficult from Harrow.
    M1      9 miles
                Scotland, a hard day's drive;   Lake District seven hours.
    M40     3 miles
                Wales 5 hours; the West Country 4 hours; Oxford 1 hour; Stratford-on-Avon and Warwick 2 hours
    M25     5 miles All of the beauty of Kent, Surrey and Sussex. Brighton 1 ½  hours; Channel ports 3 hours, ferry to France...better to go by  Eurostar from Waterloo.

This is one of the few houses in London which has no aircraft noise but can be reached from Heathrow by public service.  Double-decker bus 140,  50 minutes slow crawl through dull suburbs at a cost of 80p, then 5 minutes level walk home.

Within our street is a Catholic Church.  There is also a synagogue a brief walk away.  The nearest Anglican  church is a very steep 200 yard walk at the top of the Hill, this church is known to have existed in 1094, Thomas A Becket called into the church in1170 on his fateful way to Canterbury Cathedral.  There are also Baptist, Methodist churches quite close.

A map that shows the exact position of our house can be seen at...
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?grid2map?X=515125&Y=187810&arrow=Y