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On Gainsborough Road, in Henley North
What it's like at RG9 1SZ: every home that has sold on Gainsborough 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.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Gainsborough Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 27 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Gainsborough RoadSemi-detached | Jan 2002 | £173,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9, Gainsborough RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2011 | £280,000 | 108 m² | £2,593/m² | 2 |
| 11, Gainsborough RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2024 | £556,000 | 89 m² | £6,247/m² | 5 |
| 15, Gainsborough RoadSemi-detached | May 2010 | £210,000 | 115 m² | £1,826/m² | 1 |
| 17, Gainsborough RoadTerraced · company-owned | Mar 2008 | £262,500 | 79 m² | £3,323/m² | 3 |
| 19, Gainsborough RoadTerraced | Feb 2016 | £425,000 | 95 m² | £4,474/m² | 4 |
| 21, Gainsborough RoadTerraced | May 2021 | £515,000 | 102 m² | £5,049/m² | 1 |
| 25, Gainsborough RoadTerraced | Dec 2021 | £500,000 | 83 m² | £6,024/m² | 2 |
| 27, Gainsborough RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2023 | £360,000 | 74 m² | £4,865/m² | 3 |
| 31, Gainsborough RoadDetached | Feb 2024 | £525,000 | 131 m² | £4,008/m² | 2 |
| 33, Gainsborough RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2006 | £215,000 | 100 m² | £2,150/m² | 1 |
| 35, Gainsborough RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2021 | £545,000 | 129 m² | £4,225/m² | 2 |
| 37, Gainsborough RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2007 | £299,950 | – | – | 3 |
| 39, Gainsborough RoadTerraced | Jan 2019 | £400,000 | 81 m² | £4,938/m² | 2 |
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: 47% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Henley-on-Thames, about a 10-minute walk (950 m), with 835k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Paddington.
The nearest bus stop is The Close, 200 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 626); 1 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 50 minutes away by public transport (27 by car).
Central London is 54 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Henley-on-Thames, a few minutes' walk (350 m); 56% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Gillotts School, 900 m away; Attainment 8: 61.3 · 29.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Sir William Borlase's Grammar School (9.6 km) and Kendrick School (10.3 km).
Few families with young children: only 15% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Sainsburys, 950 m away, with Newboy Convenience Store closer still (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is back In Line (900 m), with Space NK Apothecary the closest pharmacy (900 m).
For a haircut, Fabio's Cuts is 300 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Berkshire Hospital, 10 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).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 37 restaurants and cafés and 10 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
The Row Barge is the closest café or restaurant (800 m), and The Saracens Head the nearest pub (400 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 73 per 1,000 residents a year.
Much of it is protected: 44% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Henley, Main).
There are 306 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 23% flats and 25% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is Station Park, 950 m away; for exercise, Urban Fitness (800 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.8 µg/m³).
17 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.
Henley and Thame constituency: Freddie van Mierlo MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 6,267 (11.8%), turnout 72%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 45%, Conservative 33%, Reform UK 10%, Labour 7%.
18 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 RG9 1SZ →
For holidays, London Heathrow is 32 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 40% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 27% are 65 or over.
It's highly educated: 47% 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: 0 of 21 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 | 1.0% | 1.3% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.1% | 2.7% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 89.1% | 82.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.5% | 7.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 9.0% | 7.4% | 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.
Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 49 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 27 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.