Durfold Wood

9°CClear

• Today: 11° / 6° · 9% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 5° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:00Sunset 16:31

9h 32m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

35US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Storrington Roadside, United Kingdom

• 6.5 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 4.9% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

1 reported · August 2026▼ 67% YoY

• Other theft1

Neighbourhood team: Haslemere, Grayswood & Chiddingfold · Surrey

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

198 reported road collisions (2025)

58 killed or seriously injured · 257 casualties · 15.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

8 food businesses within 2 miles

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

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Witley (7.0 km)
• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£559,306 average▼ 2% YoY

Across Waverley · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,459 average monthly rent▼ 2% YoY

• 1 bed £1,057
• 2 bed £1,354
• 3 bed £1,634

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

13.3× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 13.3 times median annual pay (13.7× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,832 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: 157.9p · Shell (11.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 190.9p · Shell (11.3 km)

3 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

2 charging locations within ~8 km

• 1 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Dunsfold Airport LTD (4.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools3
• Sports pitches9

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

128,227 residents in Waverley · 372/km²

• Under 16: 19%
• 16–64: 59%
• 65+: 22%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK11,970
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK9,546
• Net moves+2,424

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

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 289 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,605 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band D (24% of 57,540)

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

74 schools · 24,524 pupils

38 primary · 7 secondary · 29 other

Ofsted: 16 of 18 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (89%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Waverley

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

• Not in the Green Belt
• 11 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

328 applications decided

88.7% granted · 291 granted, 37 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Sir Jeremy Hunt

Conservative

Godalming and Ash

Source: UK Parliament

Liberal Democrat / Independent / Green coalition

• Con 10
• LD 24
• Grn 1
• Oth 14

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

• Parks & greens6

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

8,425 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£958 median full-time weekly pay

2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£40,616 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 · 58,504 certificates

9.3% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

37% low-carbon electricity

Gas 61% · Wind 18% · Biomass 10% · Nuclear 8%

251 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for South England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 86.1 yrs women · 82.8 yrs men

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

51% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.9
• Feeling worthwhile8.2
• 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 GU8

• Chiddingfold Surgery
• Witley Surgery
• Springfield Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Godalming and Ash:

• Permanent driving ban on intoxicated drivers guilty of causing death545 local signatures · 29,985 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND323 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks319 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases319 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Require local authorities to provide 90 minutes of free parking in town centres219 local signatures · 5,417 nationwide

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

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  Chiddingfold Forest · 0.3 km

  Chiddingfold Forest is a 542.5-hectare (1,341-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Chiddingfold in Surrey and West Sussex. One part of it, Fir Tree Copse, is a nature reserve which is managed by the…

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  Plaistow, West Sussex · 2.1 km

  Plaistow is a village and civil parish in the north of the Chichester District of West Sussex, England. There is a village green, a recreation ground, a children's playground, a village pond, a shop, a pub and the Ang…

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  The Farm (recording studio) · 2.2 km

  The Farm was a recording studio in Chiddingfold, Surrey owned by the rock band Genesis. The group bought the property in 1980 and, after remodelling it into a studio, recorded every studio album there between Abacab (…

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  Shillinglee · 2.8 km

  Shillinglee is an 18th-century Grade II* listed country house in the parish of Chiddingfold, in West Sussex, England, near the Surrey border, situated between the villages of Chiddingfold and Plaistow. It was the seat…

• Pickhurst · 3.1 km

  Pickhurst is a grade II* listed house set in 130 acres (53 ha) of land near Chiddingfold, Surrey, England.

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  Ifold · 3.3 km

  Ifold is a hamlet in West Sussex and part of the civil parish of Plaistow, of which it is the largest settlement. Ifold has a settlement boundary and for decades has had new housing development. Ifold, as it is today,…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)