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On The Chimes, in Town Centre & Marlow Hill
What it's like at HP12 3HR: every home that has sold on The Chimes 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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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on The Chimes; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 7 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, The ChimesDetached | Jul 2009 | £291,000 | 139 m² | £2,094/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, The ChimesDetached | Sept 2020 | £440,000 | 126 m² | £3,492/m² | 1 |
| 3, The ChimesDetached | Apr 2026 | £525,000 | 117 m² | £4,487/m² | 3 |
| 4, The ChimesDetached | Feb 2002 | £260,000 | 153 m² | £1,699/m² | 1 |
| 6, The ChimesDetached | Dec 2006 | £324,950 | – | – | 2 |
| 8, The ChimesDetached | Aug 2014 | £385,000 | 112 m² | £3,438/m² | 4 |
| 9, The ChimesDetached | Sept 2009 | £280,000 | 109 m² | £2,569/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is High Wycombe, a short drive or bike ride (1.4 km), with 2.2m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Marylebone.
The nearest bus stop is The Wendover Arms PH, 150 m away, with a bus about every 55 minutes on weekdays (routes 20, 331); 6 departures an hour from the 5 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 11 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
Central London is 46 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Oakridge School, a few minutes' walk (450 m); 64% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Chepping View Primary Academy (1.6 km).
The nearest secondary is Wycombe High School, 1.1 km away; Attainment 8: 73.9 · 45.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Wycombe High School (0.8 km) and John Hampden Grammar School (0.9 km).
It's a family area: 20% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Lidl, 500 m away, with N&S Food And Wine closer still (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Total Foot Care (200 m), with Lansdales Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (550 m).
For a haircut, Justim is 200 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Wexham Park Hospital, 17 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 63% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 61% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 14 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 98 restaurants and cafés and 13 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Rounds is the closest café or restaurant (400 m), and Wendover Arms Hotel the nearest pub (100 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (41 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 223 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 80 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 38% flats and 28% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
It's growing: about 549 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Tom Burt's Hill, 600 m away; for exercise, TeamSport High Wycombe (650 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 10.7 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Heathrow is 27 km away.
41 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.
Wycombe constituency: Emma Reynolds MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 4,591 (10.3%), turnout 61%. Vote shares: Labour 36%, Conservative 26%, Reform UK 11%, Liberal Democrat 10%.
19 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 HP12 3HR →
On this street: 1 of 8 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.2% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 1.5% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 81.6% | 83.4% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 5.8% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 18.0% | 8.2% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.8% | 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.
Most households own their home, 33% rent privately.
It's young: 25% of residents are aged 15–29.
It's highly educated: 43% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is Buckinghamshire New University, 950 m away (TEF Silver).
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.
Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 45 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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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 7 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.