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Wellesley Avenue, NORTHWOOD, HA6 3JB

Eastbury Avenue is lined with upmarket gated apartment blocks including this one, Beechcroft Place.

There are a number of upmarket gated apartment blocks like this one, Maplewood Court, on Eastbury Avenue. At the time of writing, a three-bedroomed flat here was on the market for just under £700,000 - enough to make anyone more used to provincial property prices wince.

This is the southern end of Davenham Avenue from its junction with Eastbury Avenue. The road runs through to Batchworth Lane. The land was once part of the Eastbury Estate, at the heart of which was the mansion house, whose site was to become RAF Northwood.

This area is the epitome of well-heeled leafy suburbia; Eastbury is just into Hertfordshire across the boundary from the London Borough of Hillingdon which includes Northwood. Ahead in this view is the junction with Davenham Avenue and the prominent apartment block is called Hollyoaks.

The observant might notice a very high security fence on the left-hand side of the road. And that the sign at the slight bend in the road in the distance says "Northwood Headquarters". What the bland sign doesn't say is that behind the fence are five military command and control functions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwood_Headquarters : Headquarters, Joint Forces Command https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Forces_Command ; the Permanent Joint Headquarters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_Joint_Headquarters ; the Multi National Headquarters - this is for the command of European Union military operations; the Commander Operations for the Royal Navy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_Operations_(Royal_Navy) ; and the NATO Allied Maritime Command https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_Maritime_Command which reports to the Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_Joint_Force_Command_Brunssum . Directions for how to get there by bus, underground, rail, car and air, together with info about the dental facilities and the Mums and Toddlers group, can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwood_Headquarters .