Beyond the Suburbs

The environs of Kingston are sometimes renowned as typically suburban. Comedies such as The Good Life and Stella Street were supposedly set in nearby Surbiton. Find out why the makers of these programmes had to look elsewhere for filming. There will be no curtain twitching as the route passes alongside the River Thames, through Bushy Park, past Hampton Court, through the pretty villages of Thames Ditton and Claygate before a pretty descent back into Kingston through Hook and Surbiton.