Lambourn Woodlands

17°COvercast

• Today: 20° / 17° · 71% rain
• Tomorrow: 23° / 16° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:36Sunset 19:27

12h 51m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

27US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Chilbolton Observatory, United Kingdom

3 reported · July 2026

• Criminal damage & arson1
• Public order1
• Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: Hungerford and Lambourn District · Thames Valley

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

206 reported road collisions (2024)

44 killed or seriously injured · 269 casualties · 12.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

10 food businesses within 2 miles

• 10 rated 4–5 ★ (9 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Hungerford (7.8 km)
• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£402,790 average▲ 0.2% YoY

Across West Berkshire · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,314 average monthly rent▲ 3.2% YoY

• 1 bed £919
• 2 bed £1,194
• 3 bed £1,483

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

9.6× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 9.6 times median annual pay (9.9× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 173.9p · Asda (7.5 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 194.9p · Asda (7.5 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

19 charging locations within ~8 km

• 7 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 160 kW
• Nearest: Welcome Break Membury Westbound Services (0.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches5

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

161,448 residents in West Berkshire · 229/km²

• Under 16: 19%
• 16–64: 61%
• 65+: 20%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 289 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,505 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (28% of 72,040)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

99 schools · 27,859 pupils

67 primary · 10 secondary · 22 other

Ofsted: 21 of 23 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (91%)

82inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · West Berkshire

150 CQC-registered services

• Care homes46
• GP practices17
• Dentists34
• Homecare agencies39
• Hospitals & hospices4

CQC ratings: 95% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · West Berkshire

• Not in the Green Belt
• 9 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

218 applications decided

86.7% granted · 189 granted, 29 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Liberal Democrat majority

• Lab 1
• Con 11
• LD 28
• Grn 2
• Oth 1

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Restaurants & cafés11

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

9,340 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

3 jobs advertised

e.g. Logistics Account Manager, Operations & Production Planning Manager, Production & Operations Manager – Career Progression Opportunity

Source: Adzuna

£861 median full-time weekly pay

2.4% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£32,258 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

44% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 75,598 certificates

8.5% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Life expectancy: 84.9 yrs women · 82 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 66.5 women · 65.5 men

59% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.1

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Newbury:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership420 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s359 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership327 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office271 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test264 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  Membury services · 0.2 km

  Membury services is a motorway service station on the M4 motorway, located on the original site of RAF Membury in the civil parish of Lambourn in the English county of Berkshire, close to the boundary with Wiltshire,…

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  Membury transmitting station · 0.6 km

  The Membury transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility in England, situated adjacent to the M4 motorway at the Membury services in the south-west corner of the parish of Lambourn close to t…

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  Membury Camp · 0.9 km

  Membury Camp, or Membury Fort, is the site of an Iron Age hill fort located in England on the borders of Wiltshire and Berkshire counties,. The site encompasses 14 hectares, and is situated in the south-western corner…

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  Lambourn Woodlands · 1.3 km

  Lambourn Woodlands is a hamlet in the English county of Berkshire. The village is situated in the civil parish of Lambourn, and is 2 miles (3.2 km) to the south of the village of Lambourn. The parish is within the uni…

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  RAF Membury · 1.5 km

  Royal Air Force Membury or more simply RAF Membury is a former Royal Air Force station built in the civil parish of Lambourn in Berkshire, England, approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) southwest of Lambourn. The airfield wa…

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  Cleeve Hill SSSI, Berkshire · 2.3 km

  Cleeve Hill is a 4-hectare (9.9-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Lambourn in Berkshire.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)