Watt's Wood Park

Just 16 miles from London with fantastic transport links, Purfleet is one of Essex’s best-kept secrets. Watt’s Wood Park offers studio, 1 & 2 bedroom apartments and 2, 3 & 4 bedroom homes in Purfleet with superb access to London - and beyond. Purfleet is benefiting from massive regeneration under the Thames Gateway project and is poised to become a prime location over the next decade. If you live life in the fast lane you’ll find Purfleet’s transport links are perfect to suit your lifestyle. From Purfleet Station, London Fenchurch Street is only 30 minutes away. By road, the A13 offers fast direct access to the capital, with City Airport just 12 miles away. Junction 30 takes you straight on to the M25, opening up the nation’s motorway routes and the Channel Tunnel. London Stansted is just 25 minutes away and Heathrow and Gatwick are accessible within an hour.

Of course, with London only 16 miles away, you’re perfectly placed to enjoy everything one of the world’s most exciting cities has to offer - the West End, Theatreland, galleries and museums, world class wining and dining, the nation’s hottest nightclubs and of course the shopping. If you fancy shopping a little closer to home however, Lakeside Thurrock is less than three miles away. One of Europe’s top shopping destinations, it offers literally hundreds of shops under one roof, a huge choice of restaurants and a nine screen Vue cinema. Lakeside Thurrock is also home to the Lakeside Diving and Watersports Centre, where you can indulge your passions for sailing, windsurfing, kayaking, powerboating, rowing and waterballing.

In fact, whatever your lifestyle, you’ll find plenty to keep you entertained. Live for speed? Brands Hatch is close by, while the Arena Essex Raceway offers top stock car and speedway racing action. To get away from it all try the solitude of the RSPB’s enchanting nature preserve at Rainham Marshes, stroll in the dignified splendour of Belhus Woods Country Park or explore the local country villages. There are also several first rate golf courses in the area.

While you’re busy living for today though, do give a thought to the past - because Watt’s Wood Park itself stands in a site of Special Scientific Interest. 350,000 years ago, the course of the ancient River Thames took it through this area. As a result, Watt’s Wood now offers a wider range of fossils and other geological data than can be found anywhere else in Britain. So, when you have a moment to spare, take a stroll. Who knows what you’ll find…