Gastard

18°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 20° / 16° · 86% rain
• Tomorrow: 23° / 17° · Fog

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:39Sunset 19:30

12h 51m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

13US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Bristol St Paul's, United Kingdom

10 reported · July 2026▲ 67% YoY

• Criminal damage & arson4
• Violence & sexual offences4
• Anti-social behaviour2

Neighbourhood team: Corsham Rural · Wiltshire

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

880 reported road collisions (2024)

172 killed or seriously injured · 1,180 casualties · 17.2 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

75 food businesses within 2 miles

• 59 rated 4–5 ★ (50 top)
• 3 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Melksham (4.3 km)
• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£328,908 average▲ 2.7% YoY

Across Wiltshire · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,072 average monthly rent▲ 5.9% YoY

• 1 bed £743
• 2 bed £964
• 3 bed £1,209

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

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

• Cheapest petrol: 136.8p · AppleGreen (11.2 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 143.8p · AppleGreen (11.2 km)

13 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

33 charging locations within ~8 km

• 12 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 300 kW
• Nearest: Digital Mansion (2.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools5
• Sports pitches5
• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

510,333 residents in Wiltshire · 157/km²

• Under 16: 18%
• 16–64: 60%
• 65+: 22%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 231 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,572 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (25% of 233,060)

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

268 schools · 74,579 pupils

201 primary · 28 secondary · 39 other

Ofsted: 106 of 128 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (83%)

235inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Wiltshire

514 CQC-registered services

• Care homes163
• GP practices61
• Dentists98
• Homecare agencies152
• Hospitals & hospices8

CQC ratings: 91% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 6 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Wiltshire

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

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

832 applications decided

92.2% granted · 767 granted, 65 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Liberal Democrat / Independent coalition

• Lab 1
• Con 38
• LD 43
• Ref 10
• Oth 6

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

• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

24,755 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

3 jobs advertised

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Source: Adzuna

£751 median full-time weekly pay

2.2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£27,404 disposable income per head (2024)

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

46% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 241,404 certificates

9.5% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 85.4 yrs women · 82 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 63.7 women · 63.8 men

64% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.3
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.5

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Chippenham:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership432 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s342 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office324 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership322 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test237 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

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

• 
  Gastard · 0.1 km

  Gastard is a village in Wiltshire, England, four miles south west of Chippenham, part of the civil parish of the nearby town of Corsham.

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  Corsham Town F.C. · 1.7 km

  Corsham Town Football Club is a football club based in Corsham, Wiltshire, England. The first team plays in the Hellenic League Premier Division.

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  Corsham railway station · 1.9 km

  Corsham railway station served the town of Corsham in Wiltshire, England, between 1841 and 1965. Feasibility studies for the reopening of the station have been under way since 2021.

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  Lacock Halt railway station · 2.2 km

  Lacock Halt was a minor railway station on the Chippenham–Trowbridge section of the former Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway (WSWR), which opened as far as Westbury on 2 September 1848. This connected to the Great…

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  Whitley, Wiltshire · 2.2 km

  Whitley is a village in the civil parish of Melksham Without, Wiltshire, England, which had a population of 1,914 at the 2011 census. The village lies about 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Melksham on the B3353 Shaw to…

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  Alexander House, Corsham · 2.2 km

  Alexander House is a Grade II* listed house at High Street, Corsham, in Wiltshire, England. It dates from the early eighteenth century and is ashlar fronted with stone tiled roofs. The building was the Corsham materni…

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