Rockbourne

13°CCloudy

• Today: 19° / 9° · 39% rain
• Tomorrow: 22° / 13° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:33Sunset 19:35

13h 2m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Bournemouth, United Kingdom

1 reported · July 2026

• Criminal damage & arson1

Neighbourhood team: Ringwood and Fordingbridge · Hampshire

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

327 reported road collisions (2024)

99 killed or seriously injured · 399 casualties · 18.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

7 food businesses within 2 miles

• 7 rated 4–5 ★ (7 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 4 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£380,310 average▲ 1.2% YoY

Across New Forest · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,241 average monthly rent▲ 1.4% YoY

• 1 bed £862
• 2 bed £1,130
• 3 bed £1,387

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

10.3× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 10.3 times median annual pay (10.2× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 166.9p · Morrisons (10 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 187.9p · Morrisons (10 km)

3 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

7 charging locations within ~8 km

• 2 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 75 kW
• Nearest: Whitsbury Road (4.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches6

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

175,785 residents in New Forest · 234/km²

• Under 16: 15%
• 16–64: 55%
• 65+: 29%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 241 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,420 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band D (23% of 83,530)

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

86 schools · 21,932 pupils

54 primary · 9 secondary · 23 other

Ofsted: 22 of 23 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (96%)

67inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · New Forest

1,436 CQC-registered services

• Care homes482
• GP practices163
• Dentists325
• Homecare agencies362
• Hospitals & hospices35

CQC ratings: 90% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Hampshire

• In a conservation area (Rockbourne)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 66 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

194 applications decided

89.2% granted · 173 granted, 21 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Sir Desmond Swayne

Conservative

New Forest West

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative (minority)

• Lab 1
• Con 24
• LD 14
• Grn 2
• Ref 2
• Oth 5

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

• Schools1
• Parks & greens1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

9,045 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

15 jobs advertised · £31,200 avg

e.g. Experienced End of Tenancy (EOT) Cleaners, Rental Property Cleaning Specialists, Residential End of Lease Cleaners

Source: Adzuna

£733 median full-time weekly pay

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

£30,441 disposable income per head (2024)

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

41% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 81,051 certificates

9.6% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

24% low-carbon electricity

Gas 44% · Imports 32% · Biomass 11% · Wind 9%

201 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for South England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 86.2 yrs women · 81.1 yrs men

63% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.8
• Feeling worthwhile7.9
• Happiness yesterday7.5
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.0

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in New Forest West:

• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases557 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership323 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office277 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership247 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s219 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide

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

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  Rockbourne · 0.1 km

  Rockbourne is a village and civil parish in the English county of Hampshire, close to Fordingbridge.

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  Rockbourne Roman Villa · 1.2 km

  Rockbourne Roman Villa is a Roman courtyard villa excavated and put on public display in the village of Rockbourne in the English county of Hampshire. The villa was discovered in 1942 by a local farmer and excavated b…

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  Knoll Camp · 1.6 km

  Knoll Camp, or Damerham Knoll, is the site of an Iron Age univallate hill fort located in Hampshire. The fort comprises a circular earthwork containing about four acres. There is a single ditch with inner rampart and…

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  Whitsbury · 1.6 km

  Whitsbury is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England, close to Fordingbridge. Whitsbury is a part of a group of villages on the edge of the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural…

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  Whitsbury Castle · 2.0 km

  Whitsbury Castle, or Whitsbury Castle Ditches, is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located near the village of Whitsbury in Hampshire. The fort is roughly pear-shaped, located on a chalk outcrop, and coveri…

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  Damerham · 2.5 km

  Damerham is a rural village and civil parish in the New Forest district of Hampshire, England, near Fordingbridge. The area has notable Neolithic and Bronze Age barrows. It was the site of an Anglo-Saxon religious com…

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