The leafy lane is regularly described as one of the most expensive addresses in Britain, a Home Counties idyll where Premier League footballers now threaten the commuter-belt ascendancy of stockbrokers and other City types.
The new-build mini-mansions and more established hacienda-style homes in the 'Beverly Hills' of Surrey are a far cry from Craig Wright's urban, subtropical upbringing in Australia.
There, as a troubled but intellectually precocious four-year old, he was regularly 'whacked' by his father, a military veteran who had fought in the Vietnam War, if he made a 'wrong' move in one of their games of chess.