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On Finchampstead Road, in Wokingham West & South
What it's like at RG40 3EY: every home that has sold on Finchampstead 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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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.
5 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 8 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Finchampstead Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
16 of the 283 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 168a, Finchampstead RoadDetached | Mar 2014 | £567,500 | 203 m² | £2,796/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 172, Finchampstead RoadDetached | Aug 2018 | £957,500 | 221 m² | £4,333/m² | 5 |
| 174, Finchampstead RoadDetached | Jun 2009 | £395,000 | 181 m² | £2,182/m² | 1 |
| 176, Finchampstead RoadDetached | Sept 2023 | £1,350,000 | 305 m² | £4,426/m² | 2 |
| 182, Finchampstead RoadDetached | Mar 2014 | £725,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 184, Finchampstead RoadDetached | Dec 2024 | £1,200,000 | 281 m² | £4,270/m² | 2 |
| 184a, Finchampstead RoadDetached | Mar 2025 | £1,650,000 | 360 m² | £4,583/m² | 4 |
| 184b, Finchampstead RoadOther | Jun 2019 | £1,002,500 | 319 m² | £3,143/m² | 1 |
| 186, Finchampstead RoadDetached | Sept 2017 | £865,000 | 213 m² | £4,061/m² | 2 |
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 (1.4 km), with 1.9m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Reading.
The nearest bus stop is Luckley Road, 100 m away, with a bus about every 23 minutes on weekdays (routes 3, 125A, 125, 125B); 10 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 51 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 10% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Evendons Primary School, a few minutes' walk (500 m); 76% met the expected standard.
The nearest secondary is St Crispin's School, 2.0 km away; Attainment 8: 51.7 · 19.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: The Holt School (1.2 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Reading School (8.7 km) and Kendrick School (9.5 km).
The nearest supermarket is Lidl Great Britain, 750 m away; Unholy Donuts (650 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is SpaMedica (750 m), with Tesco Instore Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (800 m).
For a haircut, Honey B is 1.3 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Berkshire Hospital, 9.2 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 9 restaurants and cafés, 2 pubs and bars.
Kimel Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (650 m), and The Two Poplars the nearest pub (350 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 59 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 16 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 44% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
It's growing: about 284 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Rotary Walnut Tree, 1.0 km away; for exercise, Studio 9 (800 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.0 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Heathrow is 28 km away.
Most households own their home, 17% rent privately.
7 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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Luckley House School | II | 170 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
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%.
11 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 3EY →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
It's highly educated: 50% 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 218 homes with certificates have solar panels, 2 a heat pump, and 86 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.3% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.7% | 0.7% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 83.5% | 92.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.3% | 0.9% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 14.4% | 5.9% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 1.0% | 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.
Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 52 min
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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 283 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.