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On Hilda Vale Road, in Farnborough
What it's like at BR6 7AN: every home that has sold on Hilda Vale Road since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
7 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Hilda Vale Road; planning applications within 500 m (Planning London Datahub); new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
2 of the 61 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Hilda Vale RoadDetached | Aug 2022 | £795,000 | 110 m² | £7,227/m² | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1a, Hilda Vale RoadTerraced | Jul 2025 | £480,000 | 83 m² | £5,783/m² | 2 |
| 1c, Hilda Vale RoadTerraced | Feb 2021 | £405,000 | 85 m² | £4,765/m² | 3 |
| 1d, Hilda Vale RoadTerraced | Feb 2025 | £535,000 | 95 m² | £5,632/m² | 5 |
| 3, Hilda Vale RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2022 | £625,000 | 109 m² | £5,734/m² | 4 |
| 4, Hilda Vale RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2007 | £410,000 | 177 m² | £2,316/m² | 2 |
| 7, Hilda Vale RoadSemi-detached | Jan 2004 | £267,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 8, Hilda Vale RoadSemi-detached | May 2022 | £475,000 | 66 m² | £7,197/m² | 1 |
| 9, Hilda Vale RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2004 | £275,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 12, Hilda Vale RoadDetached | Jul 2007 | £355,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 13, Hilda Vale RoadTerraced | Dec 2001 | £215,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 14, Hilda Vale RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2021 | £480,000 | 181 m² | £2,652/m² | 1 |
| 16, Hilda Vale RoadSemi-detached | Jan 2022 | £515,000 | 99 m² | £5,202/m² | 5 |
| 17, Hilda Vale RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2014 | £465,000 | 79 m² | £5,886/m² | 3 |
| 18, Hilda Vale RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2014 | £405,000 | 164 m² | £2,470/m² | 1 |
| 18a, Hilda Vale RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2011 | £256,000 | 76 m² | £3,368/m² | 1 |
| 19, Hilda Vale RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2018 | £585,000 | 103 m² | £5,680/m² | 3 |
| 20, Hilda Vale RoadDetached | Jun 2008 | £523,500 | 159 m² | £3,292/m² | 1 |
| 21, Hilda Vale RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2022 | £752,000 | 133 m² | £5,654/m² | 3 |
| 22, Hilda Vale RoadDetached | Jan 2008 | £539,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 23, Hilda Vale RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2005 | £249,950 | 104 m² | £2,403/m² | 2 |
| 26, Hilda Vale RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2014 | £525,000 | 130 m² | £4,038/m² | 1 |
| 27, Hilda Vale RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2020 | £430,000 | 86 m² | £5,000/m² | 2 |
| 28, Hilda Vale RoadSemi-detached · company-owned | Feb 2025 | £560,000 | 163 m² | £3,436/m² | 1 |
| 29, Hilda Vale RoadSemi-detached · company-owned | Apr 2024 | £510,000 | 134 m² | £3,806/m² | 3 |
| 30, Hilda Vale RoadDetached | Jan 1998 | £171,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 31, Hilda Vale RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2017 | £430,000 | 114 m² | £3,772/m² | 1 |
| The Squirrels, Hilda Vale RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2009 | £375,000 | – | – | 1 |
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 41% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Orpington, a short drive or bike ride (2.3 km), with 5.0m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Bridge.
The nearest bus stop is Hilda Vale Road, 150 m away, with a bus about every 6 minutes on weekdays (routes 358, 684); 63 departures an hour from the 10 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 22 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Darrick Wood Infant & Nursery School, a few minutes' walk (350 m).
The nearest secondary is Darrick Wood School, 350 m away; Attainment 8: 51.5 · 12.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Hayes School (4 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Newstead Wood School (1.4 km) and St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School (2.7 km).
The nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's, 450 m away; BP & M&S Simply Food (500 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Summercroft Surgery (300 m), with Village Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.0 km).
For a haircut, Pink & Blue is 500 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Princess Royal University Hospital, 1.3 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 52% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 66% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 5 restaurants and cafés, 6 pubs and bars.
Smoque - Health Kitchen & Coffee Lounge is the closest café or restaurant (500 m), and The Piglet at Ye Olde Whyte Lyon the nearest pub (200 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 94 per 1,000 residents a year.
There are 31 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 19% flats and 29% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
The nearest park is Tugmutton Common, 450 m away; for exercise, Darrick Wood Swimming Pool (800 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 10.4 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 17 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 29 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 40% of households own their home outright.
35 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Orpington constituency: Gareth Bacon MP (Conservative), since December 2019. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 5,118 (11.1%), turnout 65%. Vote shares: Conservative 38%, Labour 27%, Reform UK 19%, Liberal Democrat 10%.
12 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near BR6 7AN →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
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police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 61 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Canvey Island Foreshore · about 49 min
Nearest: Charlton Lido And Lifestyle Club · about 31 min
Nearest: Gravesend town pier · about 31 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 1 of 43 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.4% | 0.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 88.0% | 90.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 1.2% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 10.4% | 6.3% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 2.1% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.