The Nationwide Building Society last month announced its 13,000 office workers would be given the choice of where they work from. Auditing giant PwC also recently told employees that they can spend around half their working hours at home and end shifts early on Fridays in the summer. With other major firms also discussing a push towards flexible working, many of London’s office workers could now look outside the city for a cheaper and quieter life. Now estate agents Savills has analysed property prices in village parishes within 10km of all stations within a 45 minute journey of London. The analysis, published by the Telegraph, only includes villages with top ranked primary schools in them. The top ten are:

1) Wooburn Green, Bucks
2) Thornborough, Bucks
3) Haddenham, Bucks
4) Manuden, Essex
5) Great Amwell, Herts
6) Ardingly, West Sussex
7) Lindfield, West Sussex
8) Turners Hill, West Sussex
9) Ryarsh, Kent
10) Cranleigh, Surrey

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