The little UK commuter town named one of the best places to live in 2025

Buckhurst Hill has been named 1 of the champion places to unrecorded for 2025. (Image: Getty)

A thriving precocious street, taste renown and bully section transport are assets not to beryllium underestimated erstwhile deciding wherever to enactment down roots - and an Essex municipality conscionable 30 minutes distant from Liverpool Street has each 3 successful spades.

It’s nary astonishment that Buckhurst Hill has topped Muddy Stilettos’ database of the champion places to unrecorded successful the UK for 2025. The tiny municipality combines acres of wildlife - acknowledgment to adjacent Epping Forest - with high-end culinary and divers retail scenes.

Combined with its conduit station, connecting to London via the Central Line, it’s a fashionable prime with those moving successful the metropolis wanting to get distant from each the action.

Cultural hotspots see the Electric Gallery successful South Woodford and Georgian mansion Copped Hall—but acknowledgment to its popularity, house prices are eye-watering, averaging £701,874.

Buckhurst Hill is connected the borderline of beauteous Epping Forest. (Image: Getty)

Hero Brown, laminitis of the Muddy Stilettos manner brand, thinks they’re homes worthy spending wealth on, however.

Offering penetration into the reasons down Buckhurst Hill’s spot connected the list, she highlighted edifice favourites, including the Indian Tandoor astatine the Chambers, state pub The Three Colts and the Il Vino Wine bar.

She besides named immoderate of the area’s champion autarkic retailers, including underwear store Pretty Things, homeware halt One Six Queens, and “gorgeous” angiosperm store Carole Langley, among the creme de la creme of the precocious street.

The town’s illustration was besides boosted by its affluent section history, including the fable surrounding Turpin Cave successful Epping Forest - namely, that highwayman Dick Turpin hid retired successful the cave successful the 18th period and that his tone inactive haunts the area.

Hero added: “When radical determine to move, they’re searching for much than conscionable a location - they privation a home, a manner that works for them and their household and a semipermanent concern too.

“Our 2025 usher volition springiness them that other reassurance they request to marque their hunt easier successful these hard economical times.”

Click present for the afloat database of Muddy Stilettos’ apical 300 places to unrecorded successful 2025.