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On Reading Road, in Barkham & Woose Hill
What it's like at RG41 1LH: every home that has sold on Reading 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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 11 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 Reading Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
9 of the 507 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 158, Reading RoadDetached | Jul 2015 | £630,000 | 206 m² | £3,058/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 160, Reading RoadDetached | Apr 2007 | £367,000 | 113 m² | £3,248/m² | 1 |
| 162, Reading RoadDetached | Aug 2023 | £885,000 | 164 m² | £5,396/m² | 2 |
| 164, Reading RoadOther | Jan 2023 | £985,000 | 171 m² | £5,760/m² | 1 |
| 166, Reading RoadDetached | Aug 2013 | £675,000 | 167 m² | £4,042/m² | 1 |
| 168, Reading RoadDetached | Nov 2005 | £440,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 170a, Reading RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2014 | £440,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 172, Reading RoadDetached | Jul 2007 | £590,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 180, Reading RoadDetached | Sept 2012 | £755,000 | 176 m² | £4,290/m² | 2 |
| 184, Reading RoadDetached | Apr 2001 | £365,000 | 219 m² | £1,667/m² | 1 |
| 188, Reading RoadDetached | Nov 2006 | £600,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 190, Reading RoadDetached | May 2006 | £570,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 192, Reading RoadDetached | May 2006 | £500,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 192a, Reading RoadDetached | Nov 2014 | £800,000 | 247 m² | £3,239/m² | 4 |
| 194, Reading RoadDetached | May 2007 | £660,000 | 283 m² | £2,332/m² | 3 |
| 194a, Reading RoadDetached | Aug 2024 | £1,200,000 | 261 m² | £4,598/m² | 2 |
| 196, Reading RoadDetached | Jan 2024 | £1,025,000 | 195 m² | £5,256/m² | 2 |
| 196a, Reading RoadDetached | Aug 2002 | £495,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 196b, Reading RoadDetached | Jun 2023 | £920,000 | 162 m² | £5,679/m² | 1 |
| 198, Reading RoadDetached | Aug 2014 | £740,000 | 239 m² | £3,096/m² | 3 |
| 202, Reading RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2021 | £650,000 | 121 m² | £5,372/m² | 2 |
| 204, Reading RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2020 | £582,000 | 128 m² | £4,547/m² | 2 |
| 206, Reading RoadDetached | Jan 1995 | £159,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 212, Reading RoadDetached | Nov 2011 | £375,000 | 92 m² | £4,076/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: 58% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Wokingham, a short drive or bike ride (1.5 km), with 1.9m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Reading.
The nearest bus stop is Simons Lane, 150 m away, with a bus about every 15 minutes on weekdays (routes 4, 4a, 129); 17 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 52 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 5% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Emmbrook Infant School, about a 5-minute walk (500 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is The Emmbrook School, 500 m away; Attainment 8: 50.7 · 17.1% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: The Holt School (2.1 km) and Maiden Erlegh School (5.1 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Reading School (7.5 km) and Kendrick School (8.2 km).
The nearest supermarket is Wm Morrison, 750 m away, with Emmbrook Sports & Social Club closer still (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Woosehill Practice (850 m), with Morrisons Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (750 m).
For a haircut, Hamilton Hair is 350 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Berkshire Hospital, 7.9 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 2 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Monkey Mates is the closest café or restaurant (550 m), and The Emmbrook Inn the nearest pub (350 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 20 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
Detached houses make up 73% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1983-1992.
The nearest park is Emmbrook Walk, 700 m away; for exercise, Cantley Recreation Ground (1.5 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.0 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Heathrow is 30 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 44% of households own their home outright.
22 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%.
9 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 RG41 1LH →
It's highly educated: 52% 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: 6 of 316 homes with certificates have solar panels, 9 a heat pump, and 57 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.6% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.5% | 0.7% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 95.4% | 92.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.4% | 0.9% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.6% | 5.9% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 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 507 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 54 min
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