The art students and their studios have disappeared from Bushey but the town still prides itself on its arts scene.  There is an arts festival every year in July and Bushey Museum celebrates the history of the town and its many artists including Lucy Kemp-Welch, who ran the art school from 1905 until 1912, dedicating it to animal painting.

Bushey lies 16 miles north-west of central London on the southeastern edge of Watford, within the boundaries of the M25 and close to the M1. With the station a mile away from the town itself, however, Bushey — with its ancient church, duck pond and period cottages — manages to retain the feel of a rural village.

What there is to buy in Bushey
Bushey and nearby Bushey Heath have a very wide range of properties, everything from period cottages to small Victorian terrace houses, bungalows and detached houses from the Twenties, and onwards to modern flats. 

The most expensive homes currently for sale in Bushey are at Royal Connaught Park in The Avenue. This development of the High Victorian Gothic former Royal Masonic School for Boys — which doubled as Hogwarts school in Harry Potter films — started in 2009 but was mothballed by developer Comer Homes during the recession, then resumed in 2012. 

With a mixture of 157 period conversions and 200 new-build homes there, a range of converted mews houses are for sale now at prices from £355,000 to £2.79 million.

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