Crossways Hell Corner, West Berkshire
3 addresses across 2 postcodes (RG17), about 730 m long. USRN 26904075.
3 recorded sales since 1995; in 2017 the median was £910,200 across 1 sale. No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in West Berkshire costs £2,505 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Kintbury, about 2.4 km away in a straight line. About 830 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 74% of households owned their home and 47% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Sales on this street
| Year | Sales | Median price | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | £910,200 | £910,200 | £910,200 |
| 2000 | 1 | £100,000 | £100,000 | £100,000 |
| 1999 | 1 | £234,000 | £234,000 | £234,000 |
| Date | Address | Type | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Oct 2017 | FORBURY COTTAGE RG17 9SU | Detached | £910,200 | |
| 19 May 2000 | THE LODGE, FORBURY HOUSE RG17 9SU | Detached | £100,000 | |
| 19 Jul 1999 | FORBURY COTTAGE RG17 9SU | Detached | £234,000 |
Energy performance certificates
No certificates found for addresses on this street.
Council tax
What each band costs in West Berkshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,505 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,670 | £1,949 | £2,227 | £2,505 | £3,062 | £3,619 | £4,176 | £5,011 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (22% of about 1,000 homes).
Planning and heritage
- Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
- Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
- Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
- Tree preservation orders: 2 protected trees on or by this street.
- Green belt: no.
Listed buildings
- ROOKSNEST FARM COTTAGE, grade II
Roadworks
No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.
Flood risk
No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.
Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.
High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.
Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RG17 9DE | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| RG17 9SU | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Kintbury 75,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 2.4 km |
| Hungerford 312,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 5.6 km | |
| Newbury 1.5 million journeys in 2024–25 | 9.2 km | |
| Bus stops | 1 stop within 400 m, 6 within 800 m; nearest Kintbury Crossways | 400 m |
| Bus or coach station | Newbury Wharf | 9.4 km |
| EV charging points | ubitricity | 1.8 km |
| Airport with scheduled flights | Southampton Airport SOU | 48.4 km |
| Nearest large airport | London Heathrow Airport LHR | 69.7 km |
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inkpen Primary School | Primary | 5–11 | 1.4 km | Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met |
| Kintbury St Mary's C.E. Primary School Church of England | Primary | 3–11 | 2.0 km | No published inspection |
Food hygiene ratings nearby
No rated food businesses within 500 m.
Crime within 250 m
No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (thames-valley).
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 54 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 16% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 32% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 74% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 52% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 0% | 1% |
| Social rented | 3% | 17% |
| Private rented | 22% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 54% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 2% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 33% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 1% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 51% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 40% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | 2% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 2% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 5% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work) | 39% | 65% |
| Work 30 km or more away | 24% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 47% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 11% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 5% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 98% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | under 1% | 2% |
Deprivation
The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.
What has changed
Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.
Postcodes on this street
Nearby streets
Kintbury Road · Pebble Hill · Kintbury Road · Rooksnest Lane · Back Lane
All the streets in RG17 and across West Berkshire.
What this page cannot tell you
- Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
- What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
- How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
- Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
- Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
- How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
- Anything about planning applications, noise or air quality yet.
How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.