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On Bennetts Wood, in Westcott, Ockley & Capel
What it's like at RH5 5EX: every home that has sold on Bennetts Wood 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 Bennetts Wood; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 20 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 21, Bennetts WoodSemi-detached | Jun 2023 | £365,000 | 87 m² | £4,195/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22, Bennetts WoodSemi-detached | Nov 2000 | £147,000 | 79 m² | £1,861/m² | 1 |
| 26, Bennetts WoodSemi-detached | Oct 2016 | £365,000 | 90 m² | £4,056/m² | 2 |
| 29, Bennetts WoodDetached | Oct 2013 | £186,000 | 69 m² | £2,696/m² | 1 |
| 31, Bennetts WoodFlat | Jul 2019 | £250,000 | 68 m² | £3,676/m² | 3 |
| 32, Bennetts WoodSemi-detached | Oct 2005 | £170,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 33, Bennetts WoodSemi-detached | Feb 2020 | £380,000 | 85 m² | £4,471/m² | 2 |
| 34, Bennetts WoodSemi-detached | Dec 1997 | £92,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 36, Bennetts WoodSemi-detached | Nov 2021 | £380,000 | 86 m² | £4,419/m² | 1 |
| 42, Bennetts WoodSemi-detached | Mar 2021 | £414,200 | 81 m² | £5,114/m² | 5 |
| 43, Bennetts WoodSemi-detached | Jan 2016 | £285,025 | 85 m² | £3,353/m² | 2 |
| 47, Bennetts WoodSemi-detached | Feb 2004 | £175,000 | 73 m² | £2,397/m² | 3 |
| 49, Bennetts WoodSemi-detached | Sept 2000 | £100,000 | 74 m² | £1,351/m² | 1 |
| 55, Bennetts WoodSemi-detached | Dec 2025 | £425,000 | 75 m² | £5,667/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: 46% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Ockley, about a 10-minute walk (700 m), with 34k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Victoria.
The nearest bus stop is Laundry Way, 250 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 93); 2 departures an hour from the 2 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 65 minutes away by public transport (23 by car).
Central London is 40 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 7% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is The Weald CofE Primary School, a short drive or bike ride (2.9 km); 54% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The weekly shop is an easy trip: a food store is about 10 minutes away without a car.
The nearest GP surgery is Leith Hill Practice (250 m), with Pharmacy Advance the closest pharmacy (3.4 km).
For a haircut, Barnet Fayre is 2.4 km away.
The nearest full A&E is East Surrey Hospital, 15 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 52% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 64% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 10 restaurants and cafés, 12 pubs and bars.
Ruby's Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (1.8 km), and The Crown the nearest pub (600 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 48 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 285 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 43% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1930s.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.4 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, London Gatwick is 13 km away.
Most households own their home, 16% rent privately.
It's highly educated: 43% 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.
5 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.
Dorking and Horley constituency: Chris Coghlan MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 5,391 (10.8%), turnout 70%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 42%, Conservative 31%, Reform UK 14%, Labour 8%.
0 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 RH5 5EX →
On this street: 0 of 15 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.5% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 4.9% | 1.6% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 64.3% | 86.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 23.1% | 3.0% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 6.5% | 7.9% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.2% | 0.4% | 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: Goring Beach · about 49 min
Nearest: Amberley Museum Railway · about 45 min
Nearest: Tilgate Nature Centre · about 37 min
Nearest: The Peoples Pension Stadium · about 36 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Mole Valley 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 20 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.