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The town has grown remarkably in the past seventy years, thanks primarily to the extension of the Metropolitan line of the London Underground. Junction 18 of the M25 motorway, with the A404, is in Chorleywood. Chorleywood lies in the heart of the wealthy commuter belt to the north-west of London.
Chorleywood Common is a tract of 200 acres (0.8 km²) of wooded common land. The common is a County Heritage Site, and is home to much biodiversity. Since cattle grazing ended soon after the First World War, the land has been used for recreational purposes. Chorleywood Golf Club maintains a nine-hole golf course on the Common. In the 19th Century, the MCC established a cricket pitch on the common, which is used by senior and junior teams to this day.Chorleywood is under the control of the Three Rivers District Council.
In a 2004 survey of neighbourhoods carried out by the Office of the Deputy Prime MinisterThe Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is a department of the British government. It was formed in May 2002 and is led by the Deputy Prime Minister. It responsible for areas such as housing, devolution, the fire service and various regeneration initiativ, Chorleywood West was found to be the parishIn England a civil parish (usually just parish is the smallest area used for local government. In Wales the equivalent body to a Parish Council is termed a community council . Scotland also has bodies called community councils, but these are not equivalen in England with the highest quality of life. Of the 32,482 neighbourhoods surveyed, Chorleywood West came out top using thirty-seven criteria.