South Merstham

South Merstham is the half of Merstham that estate agents describe by pointing north. The old village up the road got the conservation area, the listed cottages and the photographs. South Merstham got the post-war rebuild, the sensible semis and a motorway interchange close enough that the traffic counts as weather. The buyers who came for a garden rather than a postcard usually stop apologising for the address within a year, which is more than can be said for the people who paid extra to live next to a church.