Beacon's Bottom

17°COvercast

• Today: 19° / 10° · 25% rain
• Tomorrow: 21° / 13° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:28Sunset 19:32

13h 3m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

26US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Reading New Town, United Kingdom

3 reported · July 2026

• Violence & sexual offences2
• Anti-social behaviour1

Neighbourhood team: Marlow South West Rural · Thames Valley

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

607 reported road collisions (2024)

106 killed or seriously injured · 765 casualties · 11 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

30 food businesses within 2 miles

• 26 rated 4–5 ★ (20 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Saunderton (3.8 km)
• 5 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£490,508 average▲ 4.3% YoY

Across Buckinghamshire · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,474 average monthly rent▲ 4.6% YoY

• 1 bed £1,035
• 2 bed £1,310
• 3 bed £1,602

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

11.3× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 11.3 times median annual pay (11.0× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 161.9p · Asda (7.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 185.7p · Asda (7.3 km)

9 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

14 charging locations within ~8 km

• 8 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 120 kW
• Nearest: Nonfumo Flue Systems Limited (2.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools7
• Sports pitches11
• Playgrounds5

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

553,079 residents in Buckinghamshire · 353/km²

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

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

£2,527 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (23% of 238,540)

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

274 schools · 97,646 pupils

182 primary · 35 secondary · 57 other

Ofsted: 80 of 93 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (86%)

235inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Buckinghamshire

563 CQC-registered services

• Care homes134
• GP practices89
• Dentists155
• Homecare agencies134
• Hospitals & hospices9

CQC ratings: 89% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Buckinghamshire

• Within the Green Belt
• 13 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

1,132 applications decided

86.9% granted · 984 granted, 148 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Emma Reynolds

Labour

Wycombe

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative majority

• Lab 3
• Con 50
• LD 26
• Grn 2
• Ref 2
• Oth 14

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

• Schools2
• Parks & greens1
• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

33,545 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£836 median full-time weekly pay

3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£34,111 disposable income per head (2024)

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

59% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 90,273 certificates

8.7% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

45% low-carbon electricity

Gas 51% · Wind 28% · Biomass 11% · Nuclear 5%

216 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for South England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85.4 yrs women · 82.2 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 66.9 women · 65.3 men

63% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.5
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

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

4 GP surgeries · 3 pharmacies in HP14

• Walters Ash Medical Centre
• Stokenchurch Medical Ctre
• Hughenden Valley Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Wycombe:

• Raise Human Rights Issues in Azad Kashmir with the Government of Pakistan 528 local signatures · 19,618 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership385 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s374 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership261 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office219 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide

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

• 
  Beacon's Bottom · 0.2 km

  Beacon's Bottom, also known as Bacon's Bottom, is a hamlet on the A40 between Piddington and Stokenchurch in England. Until 1895 it was administratively part of Oxfordshire, and was transferred to Buckinghamshire with…

• 
  Horsleys Green · 0.3 km

  Horsleys Green is a hamlet located on the A40 between Piddington and Stokenchurch in Buckinghamshire, England. It consists of a few houses situated either side of a narrow lane.

• 
  Studley Green · 0.3 km

  Studley Green is a hamlet located on the A40 between Piddington and Stokenchurch in Buckinghamshire, England. The term 'Studley Green' is also used to collectively refer to the four adjacent hamlets of Studley Green,…

• 
  Bottom Wood · 0.9 km

  Bottom Wood is a 14.5-hectare (36-acre) woodland in the English county of Buckinghamshire, located just north of the A40 near the hamlet of Studley Green. Since 1984, the wood has been owned by the Chiltern Society, w…

• 
  Waterend, Buckinghamshire · 1.0 km

  Waterend is a hamlet located on the A40 between Piddington and Stokenchurch in Buckinghamshire, England. Together with the adjacent hamlets of Horsleys Green, Beacon's Bottom and Studley Green, it is in an area known…

• 
  Radnage War Memorial · 1.4 km

  Radnage War Memorial is located at Mudds Bank, Radnage, Buckinghamshire, England. It is a grade II listed building with Historic England and commemorates the men of the village who died in the First and Second World W…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)