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On Lower Road, in Bookham North
What it's like at KT23 4DW: every home that has sold on Lower 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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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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Lower Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 121 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 274, Lower RoadDetached | Jan 2016 | £580,000 | 113 m² | £5,133/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 278, Lower RoadDetached | Feb 2002 | £275,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 282, Lower RoadDetached | Feb 2011 | £420,000 | 103 m² | £4,078/m² | 2 |
| 284, Lower RoadDetached | Feb 2021 | £815,000 | 230 m² | £3,543/m² | 2 |
| 288, Lower RoadDetached | Aug 2011 | £535,000 | 138 m² | £3,877/m² | 1 |
| 292, Lower RoadDetached | Aug 2023 | £810,000 | 183 m² | £4,426/m² | 1 |
| 294, Lower RoadDetached | Sept 2022 | £1,075,000 | 193 m² | £5,570/m² | 2 |
| 296, Lower RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2026 | £590,000 | 110 m² | £5,364/m² | 1 |
| 298, Lower RoadDetached | May 2002 | £390,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 310, Lower RoadDetached | Feb 2015 | £730,000 | 134 m² | £5,448/m² | 1 |
| 312, Lower RoadDetached | Dec 2015 | £1,075,000 | 260 m² | £4,135/m² | 2 |
| Childs, 314, Lower RoadDetached | Aug 2013 | £1,270,000 | 223 m² | £5,695/m² | 1 |
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 50% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Bookham, about a 15-minute walk (1.1 km), with 212k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Waterloo.
The nearest bus stop is Longmeadow, 300 m away, with a bus about every 35 minutes on weekdays (route 479); 7 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 30 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Great Bookham School, about a 5-minute walk (500 m); 96% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Howard of Effingham School, 1.0 km away; Attainment 8: 57.1 · 23.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: St Andrew's Catholic School (4.9 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Nonsuch High School for Girls (13.4 km).
The nearest supermarket is Co-op, 600 m away, with Surrey Country Markets closer still (500 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Fairfield Medical Centre (400 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (650 m).
For a haircut, Head Office is 550 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Epsom General Hospital, 8.7 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 67% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 67% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 4 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Great Bookham Tandoori Restaurant is the closest café or restaurant (500 m), and The Ye Olde Windsor Castle the nearest pub (350 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 48 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 26 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 56% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
The nearest park is Polesden Lacey Estate, 2.4 km away; for exercise, Effingham Community Sports Centre (1.0 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Gatwick is 20 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 47% of households own their home outright.
31 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.
Dorking and Horley constituency: Chris Coghlan MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 5,391 (10.8%), turnout 70%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 42%, Conservative 31%, Reform UK 14%, Labour 8%.
16 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 KT23 4DW →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
It's an older community: 28% are 65 or over.
It's highly educated: 47% of adults have a degree.
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.
On this street: 2 of 80 homes with certificates have solar panels, 3 a heat pump, and 8 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.7% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.2% | 1.6% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 90.0% | 86.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 3.0% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 8.4% | 7.9% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.4% | 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.
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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 121 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 53 min
Nearest: Legoland Hill Train · about 39 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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