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On Gorse Ride South, in Arborfield & Garrison
What it's like at RG40 4EH: every home that has sold on Gorse Ride South 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.
Sales and extensions on Gorse Ride South; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 16 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Gorse Ride SouthDetached | Apr 2017 | £405,000 | 103 m² | £3,932/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1a, Gorse Ride SouthDetached | Sept 2021 | £590,000 | 179 m² | £3,296/m² | 2 |
| 2, Gorse Ride SouthDetached | Jul 2017 | £320,000 | 73 m² | £4,384/m² | 1 |
| 3, Gorse Ride SouthDetached | Aug 2002 | £219,000 | 107 m² | £2,047/m² | 2 |
| 4, Gorse Ride SouthDetached | Aug 2009 | £235,000 | 77 m² | £3,052/m² | 2 |
| 5, Gorse Ride SouthDetached | Aug 2024 | £553,000 | 128 m² | £4,320/m² | 2 |
| 6, Gorse Ride SouthDetached | Jun 2013 | £250,000 | 69 m² | £3,623/m² | 2 |
| 7, Gorse Ride SouthDetached | Jul 1996 | £102,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 11, Gorse Ride SouthDetached | Aug 2023 | £500,000 | 103 m² | £4,854/m² | 4 |
| 15, Gorse Ride SouthSemi-detached | Apr 2024 | £445,000 | 92 m² | £4,837/m² | 1 |
| 17, Gorse Ride SouthSemi-detached | Dec 2011 | £370,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 22, Gorse Ride SouthTerraced | Sept 2021 | £282,500 | 82 m² | £3,445/m² | 3 |
| 24, Gorse Ride SouthTerraced | Jun 2021 | £295,000 | 93 m² | £3,172/m² | 1 |
| 26, Gorse Ride SouthTerraced · company-owned | Jun 2025 | £305,000 | 77 m² | £3,961/m² | 3 |
| 30, Gorse Ride SouthTerraced | Sept 2021 | £250,000 | 78 m² | £3,205/m² | 1 |
| The Herl, Gorse Ride SouthDetached | Dec 2019 | £560,000 | 150 m² | £3,733/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: 45% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Crowthorne, a drive away (3.1 km), with 248k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Reading.
The nearest bus stop is Ratepayers Hall, 350 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes 125, 125B, 125A, 8); 1 departures an hour from the 2 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 55 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 7% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Gorse Ride Infants' School, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Bohunt School Wokingham, 2.4 km away; Attainment 8: 53.6 · 16.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: The Holt School (5.1 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Reading School (8.4 km) and Kendrick School (9 km).
It's a family area: 23% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's Arborfield Superstore, 2.4 km away, with Cresswells Garage (Wokingham) closer still (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Finchampstead Practice (350 m), with Jats Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (350 m).
For a haircut, Finch Barbers is 350 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Berkshire Hospital, 8.8 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: 11 restaurants and cafés, 3 pubs and bars.
FBC Centre Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (300 m), and Queen's Oak the nearest pub (950 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 77 per 1,000 residents a year.
There are 52 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 12% flats and 37% detached houses.
It's new: 55% of homes were built since 2000.
It's growing: about 1,143 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Fbc Muga, 200 m away; for exercise, Arborfield Green Leisure Centre (2.3 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Heathrow is 32 km away.
29 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%.
17 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 4EH →
Most households own their home, 22% rent privately.
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: 0 of 14 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 | 0.4% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.9% | 0.7% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 93.1% | 92.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 1.3% | 0.9% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 4.5% | 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.
Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 58 min
Nearest: Legoland Hill Train · about 33 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 16 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.