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On Buttercup Close, in Wokingham East
What it's like at RG40 1QZ: every home that has sold on Buttercup Close 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 Buttercup Close; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 17 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Buttercup CloseDetached | Jul 2017 | £587,500 | 149 m² | £3,943/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Buttercup CloseDetached | Nov 2009 | £560,000 | 174 m² | £3,218/m² | 3 |
| 3, Buttercup CloseDetached | Apr 2000 | £314,950 | – | – | 2 |
| 4, Buttercup CloseDetached | Nov 2020 | £442,500 | 100 m² | £4,425/m² | 4 |
| 5, Buttercup CloseSemi-detached | Nov 2024 | £605,000 | 99 m² | £6,111/m² | 5 |
| 8, Buttercup CloseDetached | Aug 2005 | £349,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 9, Buttercup CloseDetached | Mar 2021 | £600,000 | 144 m² | £4,167/m² | 2 |
| 10, Buttercup CloseDetached | Mar 2015 | £455,000 | 132 m² | £3,447/m² | 4 |
| 11, Buttercup CloseDetached | Jul 2022 | £734,000 | 146 m² | £5,027/m² | 2 |
| 12, Buttercup CloseDetached | Oct 2019 | £677,000 | 141 m² | £4,801/m² | 1 |
| 14, Buttercup CloseDetached | Jul 2017 | £622,000 | – | – | 4 |
| 16, Buttercup CloseDetached | Jun 2022 | £770,000 | 166 m² | £4,639/m² | 1 |
| 18, Buttercup CloseDetached | Nov 2020 | £490,000 | 86 m² | £5,698/m² | 3 |
| 19, Buttercup CloseDetached | Mar 2021 | £790,000 | 173 m² | £4,566/m² | 2 |
| 20, Buttercup CloseDetached | Jan 2007 | £405,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 22, Buttercup CloseDetached | May 2001 | £249,950 | 143 m² | £1,748/m² | 1 |
| 23, Buttercup CloseDetached | Sept 2021 | £727,500 | 126 m² | £5,774/m² | 4 |
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: 55% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Wokingham, a short drive or bike ride (2.5 km), with 1.9m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Reading.
The nearest bus stop is The Plough, 100 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 151); 17 departures an hour from the 6 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 49 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 7% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Floreat Montague Park Primary School and Nursery, about a 5-minute walk (600 m); 64% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is King's Academy Oakwood (1.5 km).
The nearest secondary is St Crispin's School, 1.1 km away; Attainment 8: 51.7 · 19.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: The Holt School (1.9 km) and Edgbarrow School (5.8 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Reading School (10.4 km) and Kendrick School (11.1 km).
It's a family area: 22% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's, 1.3 km away, with Co-operative Food closer still (550 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Wokingham Medical Centre (1.7 km), with Rose Street Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.7 km).
For a haircut, Atlantis is 1.3 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Berkshire Hospital, 11 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).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 5 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
The Foundry Bell is the closest café or restaurant (350 m), and The Oakingham Belle the nearest pub (300 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 37 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
Detached houses make up 44% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1993-1999.
It's growing: about 153 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Keephatch Meadows, 500 m away; for exercise, Barn Built Fitness (900 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.2 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Heathrow is 26 km away.
13 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.
Wokingham constituency: Clive Jones MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 8,345 (15.5%), turnout 72%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 48%, Conservative 32%, Reform UK 10%, Labour 7%.
15 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 RG40 1QZ →
Most households own their home, 11% rent privately.
It's highly educated: 51% 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.
Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 47 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 13 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 | 0.8% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.7% | 0.7% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 96.4% | 92.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.9% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.8% | 5.9% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.3% | 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 17 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.