Faringdon Road Reading, Wokingham

44 addresses across 1 postcode (RG6), about 390 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 44707052.

  • Sales: 59 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £315,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 43 homes have an energy certificate (B: 42, C: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Wokingham costs £2,498 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Earley, about 950 m (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, South Lake Park, is about 560 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 62 to 65 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 14 of its 44 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Parkside Practice, about 770 m (0.5 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 430 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 85% of households owned their home and 51% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 22 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20261£315,000£315,000£315,000
20253£547,750£485,000£680,000
20241£672,500£672,500£672,500
20231£510,000£510,000£510,000
20221£570,000£570,000£570,000
20213£447,500£310,000£562,500
20203£725,000£445,000£740,000
20182£447,500£440,000£455,000
201715£599,950£435,000£675,000
201627£475,000£230,000£599,950
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 59)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Jan 202621 RG6 1FPFlat or maisonette£315,000Leasehold.
24 Nov 202518 RG6 1FPDetached£680,000
30 Jun 20251 RG6 1FPTerraced£547,750
6 Feb 202511 RG6 1FPTerraced£485,000
30 May 202414 RG6 1FPDetached£672,500
29 Feb 202419 RG6 1FPFlat or maisonette£317,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Sep 20233 RG6 1FPTerraced£510,000
31 May 202241 RG6 1FPSemi-detached£570,000
28 Jun 202123 RG6 1FPFlat or maisonette£310,000Leasehold.
17 Mar 202125 RG6 1FPFlat or maisonette£295,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Mar 202115 RG6 1FPTerraced£447,500
5 Feb 202153 RG6 1FPSemi-detached£562,500
17 Dec 202016 RG6 1FPDetached£725,000
11 Nov 202011 RG6 1FPTerraced£445,000
6 Nov 202026 RG6 1FPDetached£740,000
3 Dec 201847 RG6 1FPTerraced£440,000
12 Jan 201843 RG6 1FPSemi-detached£455,000
11 Dec 20172 RG6 1FPDetached£655,000New build.
29 Jun 201724 RG6 1FPDetached£600,000New build.
29 Jun 201722 RG6 1FPDetached£599,950New build.
31 May 201720 RG6 1FPDetached£599,950New build.
28 Apr 201726 RG6 1FPDetached£669,950New build.
28 Apr 201718 RG6 1FPDetached£599,950New build.
27 Apr 201716 RG6 1FPDetached£675,000New build.
27 Apr 201714 RG6 1FPDetached£650,000New build.
27 Apr 201712 RG6 1FPDetached£600,000New build.
28 Feb 201710 RG6 1FPDetached£645,000New build.
28 Feb 20178 RG6 1FPDetached£599,950New build.
3 Feb 201715 RG6 1FPTerraced£439,476New build.
30 Jan 201717 RG6 1FPTerraced£450,000New build.
27 Jan 20176 RG6 1FPDetached£599,950New build.
4 Jan 201711 RG6 1FPTerraced£435,000New build.
22 Dec 20164 RG6 1FPDetached£599,950New build.
22 Dec 201659 RG6 1FPSemi-detached£575,000New build.
20 Dec 201661 RG6 1FPSemi-detached£565,000New build.
16 Dec 201655 RG6 1FPSemi-detached£475,000New build.
15 Dec 201653 RG6 1FPSemi-detached£560,000New build.
12 Dec 20161 RG6 1FPTerraced£520,000New build.
30 Nov 201657 RG6 1FPSemi-detached£464,000New build.
31 Oct 201621 RG6 1FPFlat or maisonette£295,000New build. Leasehold.
28 Oct 20165 RG6 1FPTerraced£495,000New build.
28 Oct 201623 RG6 1FPFlat or maisonette£299,500New build. Leasehold.
28 Oct 201625 RG6 1FPFlat or maisonette£299,500New build. Leasehold.
27 Oct 201629 RG6 1FPFlat or maisonette£230,000New build. Leasehold.
27 Oct 201627 RG6 1FPFlat or maisonette£230,000New build. Leasehold.
24 Oct 201619 RG6 1FPFlat or maisonette£295,000New build. Leasehold.
18 Oct 20163 RG6 1FPTerraced£495,000New build.
7 Oct 20167 RG6 1FPTerraced£499,950New build.
7 Oct 20169 RG6 1FPTerraced£450,000New build.
30 Jun 201645 RG6 1FPTerraced£434,995New build.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from April 2016 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

43 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 133 m². Most common: House, detached (13); House (10); Flat (6). Built: 2016 (18); 2015 (13); 2017 (10). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13); rented (private) (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in Wokingham in 2026-27: Band D £2,498 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,665£1,943£2,220£2,498£3,053£3,608£4,163£4,995

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (37% of about 780 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 44 addresses are between 62 m and 65 m above sea level (63 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
RG6 1FP100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsEarley 426,000 journeys in 2024–25950 m (0.6 miles)
Winnersh Triangle 218,000 journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Reading 14 million journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Palmerstone Road Earley200 m
Bus or coach stationReading Rail Station - buses3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Car parksRoyal Berkshire Hospital Multistorey Car Park2.3 km (1.4 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR32.4 km (20 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Parkside Practice770 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Reading Pharmacy870 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 370 Wokingham Road (Dental Practice)880 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalRoyal Berkshire Hospital2.5 km (1.5 miles)
Police stationLoddon Valley Police Station2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest South Lake Convenience Store, Woodley590 m (0.4 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest South Lake Park 12 ha560 m (0.3 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,400 m²200 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sol Joel Park 7.2 ha560 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 13 ha270 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 12 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Reading Cemetery, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.5 km (1 mile) west. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Reading CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.5 km (1 mile) west
Deanery GardenRegistered park or garden, Grade II*3 km (1.8 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
High WoodWood210 m south-east
Southland WoodWood480 m (0.3 miles) south-east
South LakeLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Sonning HillHill1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
View IslandIsland3.1 km (1.9 miles) north-west
Hampstead BottomValley4.9 km (3 miles) north

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)10.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)11.44015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
65 to 6910
60 to 6440
55 to 5990
Under 553044

14 of the street's 44 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Wokingham: see them on the Wokingham page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Highwood Primary SchoolPrimary3–11590 m (0.4 miles) Good (Dec 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Earley St Peter's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11620 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Dec 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Bulmershe SchoolSecondary11–18770 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Alfred Sutton Primary SchoolPrimary3–11930 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
UTC ReadingSecondary14–191.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Maiden Erlegh School in ReadingSecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Aldryngton Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
South Lake Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Maiden Erlegh SchoolSecondary11–181.2 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Ambleside CentreNursery3–51.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Beechwood Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Dominic Savio Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Outstanding (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Co-operative Food RG6 1FRRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets310 m5 Very good14 Jan 2025
Sophie's Catering RG6 1FRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises340 m5 Very good30 Sep 2026
Premier Stores RG6 1JYRetailers - other350 mExempt

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

22 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour9
Violence and sexual offences8
Other theft2
Vehicle crime1
Drugs1
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Freshers Grove (7); On or near Repton Crescent (5); On or near Church Road (4); On or near Faringdon Road (3); On or near High Tree Drive (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 425 residents in 149 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3640
Children under 1527%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)85%61%
Owned outright32%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work73%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)49%32%
Travel to work by car or van36%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)73%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)51%34%
No qualifications7%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)81%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

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.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • RG6 1FP: 44 addresses of 47 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Tutor Crescent · High Tree Drive · Blackstone Way · Freshers Grove · Church Road · Repton Crescent · Freshers Grove · Barrington Close · Repton Crescent · Englefield Place · Fairview Avenue · Palmerstone Road

All the streets in RG6 and across Wokingham.

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.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.