Witham on the Hill

10°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 11° / 7° · 56% rain
• Tomorrow: 12° / 6° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:02Sunset 16:28

9h 26m 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 · Northampton Spring Park, United Kingdom

• 6.8 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.1% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

2 reported · August 2026

• Violence & sexual offences2

Neighbourhood team: Stamford Rural · Lincolnshire

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

299 reported road collisions (2025)

68 killed or seriously injured · 400 casualties · 20.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

7 food businesses within 2 miles

• 6 rated 4–5 ★ (6 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 2 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£265,305 average▲ 4% YoY

Across South Kesteven · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£845 average monthly rent▲ 1.8% YoY

• 1 bed £585
• 2 bed £756
• 3 bed £914

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

7.8× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.8 times median annual pay (7.3× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

2,081 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: 170.9p · ESSO (5.9 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 198.9p · ESSO (5.9 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

8 charging locations within ~8 km

• 2 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 50 kW
• Nearest: The Old Rectory (2.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches4
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

143,405 residents in South Kesteven · 152/km²

• Under 16: 18%
• 16–64: 59%
• 65+: 23%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK8,857
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK7,477
• Net moves+1,380

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

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 201 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

4% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,260 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (30% of 67,490)

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

76 schools · 23,282 pupils

52 primary · 10 secondary · 14 other

Ofsted: 28 of 30 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (93%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · South Kesteven

710 CQC-registered services

• Care homes284
• GP practices108
• Dentists126
• Homecare agencies128
• Hospitals & hospices26

CQC ratings: 88% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 3 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Lincolnshire

• In a conservation area (Witham on the Hill)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 16 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

211 applications decided

91.5% granted · 193 granted, 18 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Alicia Kearns

Conservative

Rutland and Stamford

Source: UK Parliament

Independent / Green / Liberal Democrat coalition

• Lab 2
• Con 18
• LD 3
• Grn 2
• Ref 5
• Oth 25

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

• Schools1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

6,915 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£706 median full-time weekly pay

2.8% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£26,860 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 · 77,658 certificates

10.5% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

42% low-carbon electricity

Gas 56% · Wind 22% · Biomass 19% · Imports 2%

242 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for East Midlands · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 84.9 yrs women · 81.8 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Lincolnshire): 58.6 women · 58.6 men

71% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile8.1
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.0

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

2 GP surgeries · 4 pharmacies in PE10

• Hereward Medical Centre
• Bourne Galletly Practice Team

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Rutland and Stamford:

• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills267 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks231 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND190 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases163 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately147 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide

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

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  Witham on the Hill · 0.1 km

  Witham on the Hill is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish was 260 at the 2011 census.

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  Witham Hall School · 0.4 km

  Witham Hall School is a coeducational independent boarding and day preparatory school in Witham on the Hill, Lincolnshire, England.

• Bourne Rural District · 1.7 km

  Bourne was a rural district in Lincolnshire, Parts of Kesteven from 1894 to 1931.

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  Bowthorpe Oak · 1.8 km

  Bowthorpe Oak in Manthorpe near Bourne, Lincolnshire, is a gigantic and ancient pedunculate oak in England. The tree has a circumference of about 44 feet and has a hollow trunk, making it the second-widest individual…

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  Manthorpe, Bourne · 1.8 km

  Manthorpe is a village in the civil parish of Toft with Lound and Manthorpe, in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies 0.5 miles (0.8 km) east from the A6121, 3 miles (5 km) south-west from Bour…

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  Toft, Lincolnshire · 1.9 km

  Toft is a small village in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 2 miles (3 km) south-west from Bourne on the A6121. Toft is part of the civil parish of Toft with Lound and…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)