Location advice please!
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Topic: Location advice please!
Posted By: sm9
Subject: Location advice please!
Date Posted: 27 November 2015 at 10:23am
Dear Chalfont forum members,
We are considering moving to Chalfonts, more likely on the St Giles side.
1. Would you please advise us of the journey time in the rush hours if someone wants to drive to Wycombe hospital and back in the mornings and afternoons? I was thinking of taking a back route through Jordans, Beaconsfield and M40.
2. Do we know what will be the effect of the vibrations from the the HS2 tunnel on the overlying houses?
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Saeed
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Posted By: rizzo
Date Posted: 27 November 2015 at 6:04pm
Hi there, welcome to the area (nearly).
Chalfont st giles to wycombe hospital at around 8:30 will probably take you 25/30 minutes . The problem will be getting through/around Beaconsfield . If you cut through Jordans and go along Potkiln lane you will get stuck at the bottom trying to turn onto the A40, can take 10 minutes to get out there. If you go along Longbottom lane and try to go through Old Beaconsfield you will get held up even worse. Might be quicker getting on the A40 at Gerrards Cross. Handy Cross roundabout at Wycombe can be a nightmare and you will usually crawl down the hill to the hospital.
Coming home will probably be a lot easier, busy getting up to handy cross but much quicker after that. Unless there's been an accident of course
Other than that its easy !
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Posted By: sm9
Date Posted: 27 November 2015 at 7:16pm
Thank you, this is very helpful.
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Posted By: Walrus
Date Posted: 28 November 2015 at 8:26am
Hs2 tunnel will run underneath the pond at the bottom of the village away from the majority of houses. Plus it will be 60m deep.
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Is back in the game! :)
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Posted By: sm9
Date Posted: 28 November 2015 at 9:00am
Many thanks, but would the house under which the tunnel runs fell the vibration?
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Posted By: Sunray
Date Posted: 28 November 2015 at 4:35pm
Highly unlikely to feel any vibrations or to hear any noise, HS2 is very deep and in a concrete tunnel. You do not feel any vibrations from the underground in London and in places that is far shallower.
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Sunray
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Posted By: Walrus
Date Posted: 28 November 2015 at 9:51pm
Apart from the district/circle line!
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Is back in the game! :)
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Posted By: big baggles
Date Posted: 07 December 2015 at 8:27am
and the circle line doesnt do 200 mph plus....
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need a stella and i need one now !
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Posted By: rizzo
Date Posted: 07 December 2015 at 4:58pm
I think the tunnel is about 20m deep under the pond, according to the published plans.
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