@BEagle is the aerodrome you live near called LHR by any chance?
Have you run your own full investigation into the appropriate location? My two points below in reply to your comments suggest maybe you haven't...
Access to Gatwick from Wales and the West Country isn't exactly great either, made worse by the longer travel distance.
Heathrow does have a rail station as well as a tube station, once Crossrail is complete there will be rail access from the West.