South Harlesden Area Guide: The neighborhood in London in Amandaland Spotlight

On February 6, 2025By Littum

It’s not fun to be a joking stance, but it was the suspicion of news that spin off to an endlessly accurate mother-com maternity migrated from Chiswick to ‘South Harlesden’.

Co-created by Sharon Horgan and Holly Walsh, Amandaland, who debut at BBC One at. 21 tonight (February 5), Lucy Punch’s egotistic alpha-mother sees coming down the world after Divorce-Gamely Styling of her movement to Vibrant ‘Soha’.

As anyone living in this scattered Victorian neighborhood – divided by the Unlovely A404 – will tell you, there is no such place.

A quick foam of film shooting places reveals Amandaland was shot in the more exclusive Islington, and Muswell Hill, who had to be artificially worried.

An excited Islington resident who was posted on threads: ‘The production designers have decided to make our street very worn with discarded shopping cart, etc.! Amanda has obviously fallen at hard times. ‘

‘Ooh’ says another, ‘is it Joanna Lumley hiding behind a motorhome? Omg it is! ‘

Then: ‘I just read that Amandaland is meant to be put in the South Harlesden, so I am now deeply offended that they are using our streets.’

Even if Amanda’s Ag-AG-Mor-Crime Played by Lumley and Punchbag Friend Anne (Philippa Dunne) Never came to the Harlesden High Street, the local WhatsApp groups have jumped that the area gets any publicity that is not shopping about violent crime or medicine.

MOTHERLANDS ROLLE APPLICATION MEMBERS Philippa Dunne, Lucy Punch and Joanna Lumley return in Amandaland

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A local real estate agent spun with laughter when I called about Harlesen’s sales sites – then put me on wait and cut me off.

He clearly thought it was a prank call.

But James Jooste from Churchill Mathesons, who has three decades of experience and a presence on Manor Park Road, loves the mood of the area.

“It’s super friendly, I like the culture,” he says. “Some of the Harlesden have not changed or gentrification, but it is moving. I have sold a few apartments to young professionals.

“It is a busy, mixed community in zone 3 with good transport connections and really good value. You can still get a three-beds Edwardian on a lovely street that needs some work for £ 630,000. “

Best Streets in Harlesden

Jooste advises Amanda to consider the most important roads Longstone Avenue, Sellon’s Avenue, Harlesden Gardens and Wrottesley Road, where houses can pick up north of £ 1million, although she is said to live in an apartment ranging from £ 350,000 to £ 500,000 for larger MINET AVENUE or FAIRLIGHT AVENUE.

“People still want traditional Edwardian, and there is a good spread of investment properties and large, well -built family houses with high ceilings and beautiful features,” adds Jooste.

Fi and della are Amanda’s new friends in ‘Soha’

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The community-spirited open space where actors Ben Bailey Smith, Tamsin Greig and Samantha Spiro have been looked at walking their dogs, have play areas, a wooden-style café and gardening project.

It’s Prime Bumps and Babies Territory – though Amanda’s teens manus and Georgie may prefer to hang out in the adjacent skatepark.

For scaling down divorce or scaling up Northern Londoners, Jooste recommends the old Common Conservation Area.

“It’s a small triangle of small but picturesque cabins often with extensions that go for £ 620,000 to £ 650,000 right next to a transport hub,” he said.

Movies like Eddie The Eagle, Madness’s Our House and Pulp’s Common People videos were recorded there, and the close social interruptions that film fees to finance day trips and citizen improvements.

A nexus of above-ground lines plus the bakery looe, average Amanda may need double window against noise from Willesden Junction or the endless HS2 works.

But sometime after 2029, she will be one of the few who benefits from a super-fast connection to Birmingham or more handily a connection to the Lizzie line.

Old Oak Common Station must open between 2029 and 2033

HS2

In terms of school, Amanda may have to consider paying or praying. The Blurb series says that script and Georgie are now teenagers, and Amanda is dealing with modern maternity horizers such as teenage drinks, fake instagram accounts and eco -anxiety ‘.

If they are too old for unique St Joseph’s Catholic primary school, she may be able to gather enough points from weekly worship to enter unique twyford C from E Secondary in Acton, or the local choice of election, Queen’s Park Community School, is Choc- Full of offspring from famous TV stations, DJs, music and film industry types.

Where to eat, drink and shop in the Harlesden

Brent has a famous diverse society where 149 languages are spoken, and if Amanda wants to entertain her new neighbor Mal on her reduced budget, she has to go to High Street grocery store 2 saws, an aladdin’s gap of international ingredients at a fraction of awards in Chiswick Waitrose.

When Amanda builds her lifestyle influencer brand, she could get inspired by Nilly Flowers in Park Parade-AS hosting a Sri Lanka’s dinner club on Fridays or from Makers Markets in Standard Road, Park Royal, where she can slip into Speak-Aeasy Standstard bar afterwards for a craft gin.

Chamberlayne is named in the standard’s 50 best gastropubs in London

Chamberlayne

To meet up with new friends della and fi, she can swap her Gails reward card for brunch and after school pizza at Rubio on the Park Parade while she ditched yoga mat to hang out on Elmwood Lawn Tennis Club at Wrottesley Road where the bar is running regular Friday knees up to parents who let their hair down while the kids are running crazy.

A short spin brings her to Chamberlayne Road with independent cinema Lexi and a number of decent pubs in Chamberlayne, Whippet, Paradise and Parlor.

Lexi is one of London’s best independent cinemas

Adrian Lourie

College Road with his Italian Deli L’Angolo and Pub Islands is also Kensal Rise Territory, but Café Bar Morty & Bobs would bring Amanda back nicely into full circle.

It was once the very complaining Gracelands Café, where the Motherland pilot was shot back in 2016.