What is it really like to live in London W6?
FindaProperty.com presents a selection of local residents reviews and reports, detailing their own experiences of living in London W6.

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I have lived in Kings Court at Ravenscourt Park for 2 years now and can't believe how great the area has turned out to be ...

... There is a great park next door with open green space and duck ponds. The tennis courts are functional and are often busy.

The street itself is lined with amazing restaurants such as Saigon (Vietnamese), Tosa (Japanese), Kalamari (Greek), several posh and therefore unfortunately rather expensive Indian restaurants, Azou (Moroccan) and many others.

In addition, there are several superb cafes including the newly opened Lola and Simone, run by a delightful Kiwi/Argentinean couple. I go to a great Italian delicatessen for authentic freshly baked foccacia and bottles of prosecco. For the more mundane foodstuff, there's always the Tesco Express across the road.

I use the facilities at the Hogarth Club which is just down the road and there's a host of facilities (gym, swimming pool, tennis courts etc). However, on the weekends, it does tend to get a bit busy with Chiswick mums and their kids.

Ravenscourt Park is uniquely located in between the more bohemic shops of King Street (Hammersmith) and the more salubrious shops on Chiswick High Street. Endless choice either way and it does give one the option.

The river is a 5 minute walk away with its great riverside pubs and brisk morning walkers. Sundays are especially great as the river is teeming with rowers from the various boathouses in and around Hammersmith. It gives the area a nice bustle.
William Gray-Thomas

I can't believe I've lived in a former council flat in Hammersmith for nearly five years now ...

... It was only supposed to be a temporary solution, but the transport and facilities are so good I've found it hard to find anywhere near as good. Plus the flat is purpose built so there's no noise from the neighbours as well as plenty of space and light.

On top of that there's the river and pubs, plus the fantastic history of William Morris and other creative people who have lived in the area. It's now time for me to buy a place and I will definitely be looking to buy around Hammersmith.
Anna Lewis

I was born in Hammersmith of Irish immigrant parents and just love the whole area ...

... We have a wonderful Irish Centre with a great performing arts department and great Irish Bands, both modern and trad. It is also an information centre and is welcoming. Long may it continue.

Hammersmith is a lively area with so much to give a visitor or resident. I love it - it's HOME. My family have lived on Hammersmith Grove for over 60 years.

I live in Brackenbury Village, which is Hammersmith really...

... but the Estate Agents have made a new name for it! It's a lovely area just between Hammermsith and Shepherd's Bush.

We have an amazing local butcher who's one of Rick Stein's food heroes. We have a hat shop, a trendy furniture shop and a lovely restaurant called the Brackenbury. We also have a really nice gastropub called the Anglesea.

It's a really cool place now, and getting increasingly posher! I'd recommend it to anyone though, as it's quiet, trendy and has great transport links.

Moved to the area this year - it is good...

While being very convenient (with all the transport links, shopping and leisure just around the corner) it is not without character.

It also has quite a few quiet and leafy corners. The residential streets off Fulham Palace Road starting from Hammersmith Broadway end are amazingly quiet and don't feel at all like being a 5-10 minute walk to the Broadway.

It's a place where you can have a reasonably good night out within walking distance(with a couple of cinemas, theatres and great music gig venues) or just hop on the tube and reach Kensington, Knightsbridge or the West End within 15-20 minutes.

You also get a very good mix of families as well as young couples and singles in the area, so it feels very harmonised in the demographic sense.

I've lived on Greyhound Road in Barons Court for 2 years now...

...and would like to recommend the area as an attractive all-round place to live. There's a Sainsbury's Local at the end of the road, and its a short walk across Fulham Palace Road to the rverside with a cinema and waterside pubs and restaurants including the River Cafe, or up to Hammersmith Broadway shopping centre. The new Fulham Pools Holmes Place Health club is excellent, and the area as a whole is surprisingly quiet (after Battersea!) and feels very safe at night.

The attractive, tree-filled, Victorian Margravine Cemetry is more of a park really (at least those summer sunbathers seem to think so!) and Normand Park provides a genuine (if small) open space. Getting to Heathrow or out west is very easy due to the tube and road links, and you are three tube stops from the excellent shops at Knightsbridge or Sloane Square.

My only niggle is the local pubs and restaurants, some of which can be a bit down at heel - ! That's surprising for such an upwardly mobile area - and I guess that one will change with time.

I moved to Hammersmith from the busy area of Barons Court in 1999...

I have a Victorian railway cottage in the Brackenbury area and I'm more than happy. Locally there is a very pleasant parade of shops, and most needs can be catered for here.

There are 3 tube stations to choose from and the furthest (Hammersmith) is only a pleasant ten minute walk. I love it here and wished I had moved earlier from the busy, noisy flat-oriented Barons Court. DB, London W6.