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On Lynmouth Road, in Central Reading North
What it's like at RG1 8DD: every home that has sold on Lynmouth 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Lynmouth Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
2 of the 40 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 2, Lynmouth RoadSemi-detached | May 2026 | £390,000 | 79 m² | £4,937/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4, Lynmouth RoadTerraced | Oct 2017 | £331,000 | 102 m² | £3,245/m² | 1 |
| 6, Lynmouth RoadTerraced | Jan 2019 | £425,000 | 91 m² | £4,670/m² | 1 |
| 8, Lynmouth RoadTerraced | Jul 2022 | £445,000 | 82 m² | £5,427/m² | 2 |
| 10, Lynmouth RoadSemi-detached | Jan 2024 | £534,000 | 106 m² | £5,038/m² | 3 |
| 12, Lynmouth RoadTerraced | Mar 2021 | £450,000 | 107 m² | £4,206/m² | 4 |
| 14, Lynmouth RoadTerraced | Jun 2021 | £410,000 | 84 m² | £4,881/m² | 2 |
| 16, Lynmouth RoadTerraced | Oct 2014 | £323,000 | 88 m² | £3,670/m² | 2 |
| 18, Lynmouth RoadTerraced | Jul 2022 | £372,500 | 83 m² | £4,488/m² | 2 |
| 20, Lynmouth RoadTerraced | Dec 2014 | £350,500 | – | – | 4 |
| 22, Lynmouth RoadFlat | Jun 2011 | £98,000 | 32 m² | £3,063/m² | 2 |
| 22a, Lynmouth RoadTerraced · company-owned | Jul 2025 | £185,000 | 44 m² | £4,205/m² | 2 |
| 24, Lynmouth RoadFlat | Sept 2003 | £102,000 | 34 m² | £3,000/m² | 2 |
| 28, Lynmouth RoadOther | Jun 2025 | £900,000 | 49 m² | £18,367/m² | 1 |
| 1, Lynmouth Court, Lynmouth RoadFlat | Jan 1998 | £148,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 2, Lynmouth Court, Lynmouth RoadFlat | Apr 2007 | £370,000 | 117 m² | £3,162/m² | 3 |
| 3, Lynmouth Court, Lynmouth RoadTerraced | Sept 2020 | £555,000 | 112 m² | £4,955/m² | 3 |
| 4, Lynmouth Court, Lynmouth RoadTerraced | May 2007 | £365,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 5, Lynmouth Court, Lynmouth RoadFlat | Jul 2002 | £338,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 6, Lynmouth Court, Lynmouth RoadTerraced | Oct 2022 | £618,000 | – | – | 4 |
| 8, Lynmouth Court, Lynmouth RoadFlat | Jan 2020 | £252,000 | 51 m² | £4,941/m² | 1 |
| 10, Lynmouth Court, Lynmouth RoadFlat | Dec 2009 | £157,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 11, Lynmouth Court, Lynmouth RoadFlat | Feb 2006 | £165,000 | 52 m² | £3,173/m² | 1 |
| 12, Lynmouth Court, Lynmouth RoadFlat · company-owned | Oct 2022 | £268,000 | 54 m² | £4,963/m² | 2 |
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 Reading, a few minutes' walk (350 m), with 14.3m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Paddington.
The nearest bus stop is Station North Interchange, 200 m away, with a bus about every 5 minutes on weekdays (routes X40, 23, 24, 28); 58 departures an hour from the 9 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 9 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
Central London is 59 km away as the crow flies.
56% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is E P Collier Primary School, a few minutes' walk (350 m); 72% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is All Saints Church of England Aided Infant School (1.2 km).
The nearest secondary is River Academy, 950 m away.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Maiden Erlegh School (4 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Kendrick School (0.9 km) and Reading School (1.6 km).
Few families with young children: only 13% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is One Below, 150 m away; Majestic Wine Warehouse (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Abbey Medical Centre (850 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (650 m).
For a haircut, Bladez Barbershop is 300 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Berkshire Hospital, 1.2 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).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 113 restaurants and cafés and 37 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Angel Hill at Thames Water is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and Island Bohemian Bowls Club the nearest pub (100 m).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 559 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 119 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (83%).
It's new: 60% of homes were built since 2000.
It's growing: about 2,242 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Christchurch Meadows, 300 m away; for exercise, PureGym (350 m).
55 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.
Reading Central constituency: Matt Rodda MP (Labour), since June 2017. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 12,637 (27.9%), turnout 62%. Vote shares: Labour 48%, Conservative 20%, Green Party 14%, Liberal Democrat 9%.
63 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 RG1 8DD →
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 13.6 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Heathrow is 36 km away.
Many neighbours rent: 65% of households rent privately and 12% socially.
It's young: 27% of residents are aged 15–29.
It's highly educated: 55% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is University College of Estate Management, 1.1 km away.
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 52 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: 0 of 30 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 | 0.0% | 0.9% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.7% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 37.9% | 79.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 41.8% | 15.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 20.2% | 3.7% | 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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Reading since 2011.
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 40 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.