Sandy Cross

18°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 23° / 12° · 13% rain
• Tomorrow: 23° / 16° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:31Sunset 19:26

12h 55m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

23US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Reading New Town, United Kingdom

21 reported · July 2026▲ 11% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences10
• Anti-social behaviour5
• Criminal damage & arson3
• Burglary1

1 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Eashing, Hurtmore, Shackleford, Puttenham, Seale & Sands, Ash South & Tongham · Surrey

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

314 reported road collisions (2024)

90 killed or seriously injured · 396 casualties · 21.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

130 food businesses within 2 miles

• 106 rated 4–5 ★ (84 top)
• 6 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Aldershot (3.3 km)
• 8 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£523,974 average▼ 5.6% YoY

Across Guildford · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,728 average monthly rent▲ 5.4% YoY

• 1 bed £1,180
• 2 bed £1,534
• 3 bed £1,857

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

11.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 11.0 times median annual pay (11.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 157.9p · Esso (12 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 187.9p · Asda (11.6 km)

15 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

22 charging locations within ~8 km

• 15 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 250 kW
• Nearest: Eurogarages Esso Hog's Back (0.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools11
• Sports pitches32
• Golf courses2
• Playgrounds7

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

143,650 residents in Guildford · 530/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 66%
• 65+: 18%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 296 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,547 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band D (27% of 62,610)

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

65 schools · 23,043 pupils

36 primary · 7 secondary · 22 other

Ofsted: 14 of 16 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (88%)

47inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Guildford

1,391 CQC-registered services

• Care homes390
• GP practices202
• Dentists356
• Homecare agencies296
• Hospitals & hospices38

CQC ratings: 91% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 3 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Surrey

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

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

333 applications decided

82% granted · 273 granted, 60 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Liberal Democrat (minority)

• Lab 3
• Con 10
• LD 25
• Oth 10

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

• Schools3
• Parks & greens21
• Restaurants & cafés11

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

8,465 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

24 jobs advertised · £34,101 avg

e.g. Mechanical Design Engineer, SEND Teachers & Support Staff, School Kitchen Assistant

Source: Adzuna

£882 median full-time weekly pay

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

£37,380 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 · 68,252 certificates

9.4% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 86.3 yrs women · 83.4 yrs men

56% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.1

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Godalming and Ash:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership396 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership355 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases318 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s269 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test253 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

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

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  Hogs Back Brewery · 0.8 km

  Hogs Back Brewery is a hops-growing brewery in Tongham, Surrey, United Kingdom. The company was founded in November 1991 by Tony Stanton-Precious and brothers Martin and John Hunt. The brewery, in Tongham, Surrey, is…

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  Seale and Sands · 0.9 km

  Seale and Sands is a civil parish in the Guildford District Council area of Surrey, England with a population of 887. The principal settlement is Seale; other places include Sandy Cross and The Sands.

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  Seale, Surrey · 1.2 km

  Seale is a village in Surrey, England. Seale covers most of the civil parish of Seale and Sands and the steep slope and foot of the south side of the Hog's Back as well as a large hill which exceeds it – as such is pa…

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  Runfold · 1.3 km

  Runfold is a village in Surrey, U.K., about 2 mi (3.2 km) ENE of Farnham.

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  Tongham railway station · 1.4 km

  Tongham railway station was a railway station serving the village of Tongham, Guildford, Surrey in England which opened in 1856 and closed in 1937.

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  Aldershot Crematorium · 1.4 km

  Aldershot Crematorium and Memorial Gardens, formerly Park Crematorium, serves the town of Aldershot in Hampshire, England, as well as surrounding areas, including Surrey and Berkshire. The original crematorium buildin…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)