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On Long Lane, in Hermitage & Cold Ash
What it's like at RG18 9QT: every home that has sold on Long Lane 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.
4 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Long Lane; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 36 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| Eden Cottage, Long LaneDetached | Oct 1999 | £205,000 | 115 m² | £1,783/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Tree Cottage, Long LaneSemi-detached | Jul 2024 | £625,000 | 183 m² | £3,415/m² | 2 |
| Quercus, Long LaneSemi-detached | May 2014 | £400,000 | 139 m² | £2,878/m² | 3 |
| Silver Birches, Long LaneDetached | Sept 2009 | £880,000 | 411 m² | £2,141/m² | 2 |
| Sunrise, Long LaneDetached | Apr 2017 | £555,000 | 226 m² | £2,456/m² | 3 |
| Waverley, Long LaneDetached | Oct 2020 | £1,070,000 | 286 m² | £3,741/m² | 2 |
| Woodleigh, Long LaneDetached | Mar 2024 | £740,000 | 205 m² | £3,610/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 47% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Newbury Racecourse, a drive away (5.6 km), with 115k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Reading.
The nearest bus stop is Curridge Turn, 50 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 6); 1 departures an hour from the 3 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 46 minutes away by public transport (16 by car).
Central London is 78 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 5% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Curridge Primary School, about a 15-minute walk (1.1 km); 55% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Trinity School, 4.5 km away; Attainment 8: 42.9 · 11.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
It's a family area: 21% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Marks & Spencer Simply Foods, 2.1 km away, with Chieveley Motor Co closer still (450 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Downland Practice (2.9 km), with Downland Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (2.9 km).
For a haircut, Charles Hairdressing is 4.9 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Berkshire Hospital, 20 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 62% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 81% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 11 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 4 restaurants and cafés, 8 pubs and bars.
Mulberry & Thyme is the closest café or restaurant (900 m), and The Bunk Inn the nearest pub (800 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 31 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 113 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 57% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
The nearest park is Cold Ash Recreation Ground, 2.1 km away; for exercise, Newbury Better Health & Fitness (5.3 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.7 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, London Heathrow is 55 km away.
1 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.
Newbury constituency: Mr Lee Dillon MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 2,377 (4.9%), turnout 68%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 40%, Conservative 35%, Reform UK 11%, Labour 8%.
2 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 RG18 9QT →
Most households own their home, 19% rent privately.
It's highly educated: 44% 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: 1 of 28 homes with certificates have solar panels, 2 a heat pump, and 28 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.1% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 4.7% | 2.1% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 49.9% | 70.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 37.3% | 12.9% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 7.0% | 11.5% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 1.9% | 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.
Nearest: Cotswold Country Park and Beach · about 50 min
Nearest: Cholsey and Wallingford Railway · about 40 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 36 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.