We're not kidding.

Yeah, it looks more reasonable when you see it split on a weekly basis.

It's Gordon House, in Richmond... a giant riverside stately home featuring a 47ft-long ballroom, landscaped gardens and more wings than a flock of seagulls. It used to belong to Brunel University. Now, it could turn out to be the most expensive rental property in the 'burbs. Knight Frank particulars here.

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A little-known regional index (no, not house prices) was published by the Communities and Local Government Department a couple of days ago. It's the happiness index... how happy are you living where you do. The City came out tops, with a 92.4% swellness rating, narrowly beating Richmond upon Thames into second place. Richmond - clearly taking this kind of crap far too seriously - has fought back... calling the City "statistically insignificant" because of its sub-10,000 population, and proclaiming itself the swellest place in the country. Incidentally, the least swell place in the country was also in London... sorry, Barking and Dagenham (56.6%).

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Twelve secluded acres in Twickenham known as the St Margarets Pleasure Grounds, shared by 140 properties at the cost of £400 a year for a key, and worth an extra £400,000 to the value of a home. And now, thanks to the Telegraph, a secret no more.