Welham Green

Welham Green got its own railway station in 1986 and has spent every year since watching Hatfield's housing creep closer, like a neighbour measuring up the fence. The Great North Road ran a mile away for centuries without turning in, and the A1(M) has kept up the tradition, which is how the residents like their main roads. The fields between the village and Hatfield are guarded by a green belt society with the vigilance most places save for a parking dispute. Buy here and you get a station, a primary school and a strip of farmland, and the farmland is the part everyone will go to war over.