Gorsley Common

8°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 9° / 7° · 36% rain
• Tomorrow: 10° / 6° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:10Sunset 16:36

9h 27m 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 · Chepstow A48, United Kingdom

• 5.4 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 4.0% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

2 reported · August 2026

• Public order1
• Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: Ross-on-Wye · West Mercia

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

277 reported road collisions (2025)

88 killed or seriously injured · 378 casualties · 14.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

15 food businesses within 2 miles

• 13 rated 4–5 ★ (12 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 5 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£291,495 average▲ 1.9% YoY

Across Herefordshire, County of · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£821 average monthly rent▲ 2.9% YoY

• 1 bed £596
• 2 bed £773
• 3 bed £955

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

8.8× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.8 times median annual pay (8.6× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

2,409 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

• Cheapest petrol: 172.9p · Asda (6.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 197.9p · Asda (6.7 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

8 charging locations within ~8 km

• 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 120 kW
• Nearest: Gorsley Baptist Church (0.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches3
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

187,037 residents in Herefordshire, County of · 86/km²

• Under 16: 16%
• 16–64: 58%
• 65+: 26%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK8,374
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK6,982
• Net moves+1,392

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Around the average in England

Ranked 136 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

1% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,574 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (23% of 90,500)

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

115 schools · 24,767 pupils

78 primary · 14 secondary · 23 other

Ofsted: 32 of 40 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (80%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Herefordshire, County of

223 CQC-registered services

• Care homes86
• GP practices25
• Dentists47
• Homecare agencies51
• Hospitals & hospices8

CQC ratings: 92% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Herefordshire, County of

374 applications decided

96.5% granted · 361 granted, 13 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Conservative (minority)

• Lab 1
• Con 20
• LD 12
• Grn 8
• Oth 12

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

• Schools1
• Parks & greens1
• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

12,125 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£713 median full-time weekly pay

2.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£26,031 disposable income per head (2024)

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

38% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 92,995 certificates

18.3% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 84.6 yrs women · 80.4 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 61.7 women · 62.3 men

65% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.9

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

3 GP surgeries · 3 pharmacies in HR9

• Alton Street Surgery
• Pendeen Surgery
• Herefordshire Mh South And West

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Hereford and South Herefordshire:

• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks349 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases344 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills178 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately178 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth142 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

• 
  Gorsley Common · 0.6 km

  Gorsley Common is a village in Herefordshire, west of Gorsley and Kilcot and east of Linton.

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  Gorsley · 0.6 km

  Gorsley is a small village in the Forest of Dean district of Gloucestershire, England, forming part of the civil parish of Gorsley and Kilcot. Nearby Gorsley Common and Little Gorsley are both in Herefordshire.

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  Beavan's Hill · 0.9 km

  Beavan's Hill is a village in south east Herefordshire, England.

• Gorsley and Kilcot · 0.9 km

  Gorsley and Kilcot is a civil parish forming part of the district of the Forest of Dean in the English county of Gloucestershire.

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  Linton (near Ross-on-Wye) · 1.6 km

  Linton is a village and civil parish in southern Herefordshire, England, approximately 3 miles (5 km) east of Ross-on-Wye.

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  Aston Ingham · 1.8 km

  Aston Ingham is a village in south-eastern Herefordshire, England, near Newent and about 7 miles (11 km) east of Ross-on-Wye. The population of the village at the 2011 census was 398. There is a church, dedicated to S…

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