Abinger Common

9°COvercast

• Today: 11° / 7° · 11% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:59Sunset 16:30

9h 31m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

37US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · London Teddington Bushy Park, United Kingdom

• 7.1 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.3% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

4 reported · August 2026▼ 33% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour2
• Bicycle theft1
• Vehicle crime1

Neighbourhood team: Dorking Rural West · Surrey

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

247 reported road collisions (2025)

75 killed or seriously injured · 299 casualties · 28.3 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

15 food businesses within 2 miles

• 12 rated 4–5 ★ (11 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Gomshall (3.7 km)
• 4 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£552,344 average▲ 1.4% YoY

Across Mole Valley · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,551 average monthly rent▲ 2.4% YoY

• 1 bed £1,139
• 2 bed £1,455
• 3 bed £1,856

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

11.6× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 11.6 times median annual pay (10.9× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,055 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: 156.9p · Esso (6.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 190.9p · Esso (6.8 km)

3 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

14 charging locations within ~8 km

• 1 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 250 kW
• Nearest: Finn-Ruth (2.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools16
• Sports pitches23
• Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

• Test· 29 Nov 2024
• test· 8 Feb 2024
• Houses in Multiple Occupation· 8 Jan 2024
• Cllr Bridget Kendrick· 14 Jun 2023
• Cllr Keira Vyvyan-Robinson· 22 Feb 2023

Source: Mole Valley Council

87,386 residents in Mole Valley · 338/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 59%
• 65+: 24%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK6,651
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK6,033
• Net moves+618

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

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 277 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,520 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band D (21% of 39,780)

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

41 schools · 13,953 pupils

22 primary · 4 secondary · 15 other

Ofsted: 10 of 10 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (100%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Mole Valley

1,403 CQC-registered services

• Care homes393
• GP practices201
• Dentists359
• Homecare agencies299
• Hospitals & hospices38

CQC ratings: 90% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 7 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Surrey

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

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

208 applications decided

77.4% granted · 161 granted, 47 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Chris Coghlan

Liberal Democrat

Dorking and Horley

Source: UK Parliament

Liberal Democrat majority

• Con 2
• LD 31
• Oth 6

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

• Schools3
• Parks & greens105
• Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

5,710 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£837 median full-time weekly pay

1.9% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£40,280 disposable income per head (2024)

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

39% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 38,901 certificates

8.8% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

56% low-carbon electricity

Gas 43% · Wind 43% · Nuclear 8% · Biomass 6%

176 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85.7 yrs women · 82.4 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Surrey): 66.4 women · 65.1 men

63% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction8.1
• Feeling worthwhile8.5
• Happiness yesterday7.7
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

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

1 GP surgery · 2 pharmacies in RH5

• Leith Hill Practice

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Dorking and Horley:

• Permanent driving ban on intoxicated drivers guilty of causing death577 local signatures · 29,985 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks449 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND344 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases311 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth199 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide

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

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  Goddards · 0.1 km

  Goddards is a Grade II*-listed house in Abinger Common, Surrey, England, completed in 1900. It was designed by Edwin Lutyens in the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement and the west-facing courtyard garden was desig…

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  Abinger Common War Memorial · 0.5 km

  Abinger Common War Memorial is a First World War memorial in the village of Abinger Common in Surrey, south-eastern England. The memorial was destroyed by a German bomb during the Second World War and rebuilt in the l…

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  St James's Church, Abinger Common · 0.6 km

  St James's Church stands on Abinger Lane in Abinger Common, a small village within the civil parish of Abinger in Surrey, south-eastern England. The church was built in the early 12th century and then rebuilt around 1…

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  Abinger · 0.7 km

  Abinger is a large, well-wooded and mostly rural civil parish that lies between the settlements of Dorking, Shere and Ewhurst in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England.

• Woodhouse Copse, Holmbury St Mary · 1.0 km

  Woodhouse Copse is an Arts and Crafts style house in the village of Holmbury St Mary, Surrey, England. It is a Grade II listed building, with gardens originally planted by garden designer Gertrude Jekyll. Country hous…

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  Friday Street · 1.0 km

  Friday Street is a hamlet on the gentle lower north slope of Leith Hill in Surrey, England. It is in a wooded headwater ravine, just to the south of Wotton and the A25, a single rather than dual carriageway road, runn…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)