Commuters, welcome to the West Country (just). Eleanor Doughty explores the best places to buy a house between one and two hours from London in Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Somerset

Go west: the rolling hills of the North Wessex Downs National Landscape offer a flavour of the rural idyll that awaits west of London.
It has long been said that west is best — and, with increasingly flexible working provisions, going way out west no longer means stopping at Charlbury, Oxfordshire. Welcome to the West. ‘There is a perspective that the north Cotswolds is an easier commute to London, but we’re not bad out here in south Gloucestershire,’ says […]