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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Ruth Bloomfield

The best London commuter towns within 20 minutes of Zone 1

What can you do in 20 minutes? Make and eat some pasta? Walk a mile? Idly scroll through Instagram looking for pretty pictures of other people’s fun summers? Alternatively, you can jump on the train and have the whole of central London at your disposal.

With about one in three of us now hybrid workers, commuting times have regained their importance when looking for a place to live. And even if you are a fully-fledged work-from-home devotee, you will naturally want to spend as little time as possible sweltering on the Tube.

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