Morden

Morden is where the Northern Line runs out of ideas, and people have been buying houses there for a century precisely because it does. The tube arrived, the fields turned into semis almost before the drivers had found the buffers, and the whole town has faced the station ever since. Its tallest building is the council's civic centre, which tells you how much excitement the skyline was expecting. Buyers priced out of Wimbledon get a National Trust park by the station and a seat on every morning train, which is more than Wimbledon can promise them.