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On The Shires, in Barkham & Woose Hill
What it's like at RG41 4SZ: every home that has sold on The Shires 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).
Sales and extensions on The Shires; 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, The ShiresDetached | Aug 2011 | £790,000 | 232 m² | £3,405/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, The ShiresDetached | Nov 2002 | £680,000 | 18 m² | £37,778/m² | 2 |
| 4, The ShiresDetached | Oct 2012 | £722,000 | 200 m² | £3,610/m² | 1 |
| 5, The ShiresDetached | Jan 1995 | £230,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 6, The ShiresDetached | Apr 2017 | £900,000 | 199 m² | £4,523/m² | 3 |
| 7, The ShiresDetached | Jan 2016 | £810,000 | 156 m² | £5,192/m² | 2 |
| 8, The ShiresDetached | Sept 2022 | £1,080,000 | 201 m² | £5,373/m² | 1 |
| 9, The ShiresDetached | Jan 2010 | £695,000 | 194 m² | £3,582/m² | 1 |
| 9a, The ShiresDetached | Mar 2021 | £925,000 | 211 m² | £4,384/m² | 1 |
| 9b, The ShiresDetached | Mar 2021 | £1,000,000 | 214 m² | £4,673/m² | 1 |
| 9c, The ShiresDetached | Jul 2026 | £1,050,000 | 189 m² | £5,556/m² | 2 |
| 9d, The ShiresDetached | Apr 2021 | £875,000 | 189 m² | £4,630/m² | 1 |
| 10, The ShiresDetached | Apr 2015 | £865,000 | 229 m² | £3,777/m² | 1 |
| 11, The ShiresDetached | Nov 2006 | £750,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 14, The ShiresDetached | Aug 2009 | £795,000 | 224 m² | £3,549/m² | 2 |
| 15, The ShiresDetached | Sept 2006 | £647,500 | 222 m² | £2,917/m² | 1 |
| 17, The ShiresDetached | Feb 1998 | £315,000 | – | – | 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 (1.8 km), with 1.9m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Reading.
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 Windmill Primary School and Nursery, a short drive or bike ride (1.3 km); 70% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is The Holt School, 2.2 km away; Attainment 8: 63.7 · 31.1% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: 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 Lidl Great Britain, 1.1 km away, with Barkham Village Store closer still (700 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Woosehill Practice (1.3 km), with Morrisons Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.5 km).
For a haircut, Honey B is 1.2 km 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.
Kimel Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (1.3 km), and Ye Olde Leathern Bottle the nearest pub (200 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 Limmerhill Amenity Area, 550 m away; for exercise, Studio 9 (1.0 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.
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.
2 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%.
6 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 4SZ →
Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 54 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 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 | 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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Wokingham 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 17 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.