Forge End Woking

25 addresses across 2 postcodes (GU21), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 44600447.

  • 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 C; Band D in Woking costs £2,598 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Woking, about 400 m (0.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Woking Park, is about 660 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 29 to 31 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 25 of its 25 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hillview Medical Centre, about 470 m (0.3 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 640 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 22% of households owned their home and 49% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 395 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Woking in 2026-27: Band D £2,598 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,732£2,021£2,309£2,598£3,175£3,753£4,330£5,196

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (40% of about 1,870 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
GU21 6DBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
GU21 6HTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

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 25 addresses are between 29 m and 31 m above sea level (30 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
GU21 6DB0%0%0%0%
GU21 6HT50%0%0%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 stationsWoking 6.5 million journeys in 2024–25400 m (0.2 miles)
Worplesdon 142,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
West Byfleet 1.2 million journeys in 2024–254.6 km (2.9 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 44 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Church Street West Woking40 m
Bus or coach stationFriary Bus Station Guildford9 km (5.6 miles)
Ferry terminalWeybridge Ferry Landing10.2 km (6.3 miles)
Car parks7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shoppers Car Park (Green Zone)130 m
EV charging points23 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connected Kerb Charging Stations100 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR18.4 km (11 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hillview Medical Centre470 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots200 m
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Alestone Dental Centre220 m
HospitalWoking Hospital570 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationWoking Police Station330 m
Cash machines9 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Waitrose Goldsworth Park130 m

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 Woking Park 13 ha660 m (0.4 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 140 m²120 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Horsell and Woking Cricket Club 1.7 ha480 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsTracious Lane Allotments 1.7 ha1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 13 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Mary the Virgin, a listed building (Grade II*), 730 m (0.5 miles) north-west. 11 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St Mary the VirginListed building, Grade II*730 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Bell barrow and disc barrow on Horsell CommonScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Goldsworth or Langman's Bridge, Basingstoke CanalScheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) west
Bell barrow on Horsell Common immediately east of Monument RoadScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Horsell MoorWood310 m north
Chestnut PondLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) south
Horsell CommonWood1.7 km (1 mile) north
Tracious CopseWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Westfield CommonWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Monument HillHill2.2 km (1.3 miles) south-east

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)11.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)11.14015

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
70 to 7410
65 to 69110
60 to 64130
Under 55025

25 of the street's 25 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 Woking: see them on the Woking 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
The Horsell Village SchoolPrimary4–7810 m (0.5 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Maybury Primary SchoolPrimary2–11910 m (0.6 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Goldsworth Primary SchoolPrimary2–11920 m (0.6 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Dunstan's Catholic Primary School, Woking Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Horsell CofE Junior School Church of EnglandPrimary7–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Woking High SchoolSecondary11–161.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St John the Baptist Catholic Comprehensive School, Woking Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Sythwood Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (May 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
Woking College16 plus16–191.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Barnsbury Primary School and NurseryPrimary2–111.7 km (1.1 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: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Kingfield Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Sep 2023, 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
The Forge Fuel Cafe GU21 6HTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 m5 Very good22 Jul 2025
Premier Inn GU21 6HTHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house50 m5 Very good13 Mar 2025
Woking Superbowl GU21 6BURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good3 Jun 2026
McDonalds GU21 6LQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good28 Jan 2025
Cafe Lisboa GU21 6JYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good17 Dec 2025
Cake Inn Woking GU21 6DDRetailers - other120 m4 Good7 Oct 2025
Pochettino GU21 6JYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good29 Jul 2024
Soya Korean & Japanese Restaurant GU21 6JYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m4 Good15 Apr 2026
Sokury GU21 6JYTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m5 Very good8 Jul 2025
Marks & Spencer Plc GU21 6BURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good3 Mar 2026
Woking Local GU21 6JYRetailers - other130 m3 Generally satisfactory27 Aug 2025
The Welcome Church GU21 6DJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m3 Generally satisfactory19 Jan 2026
Sostrene Grene GU21 6BURetailers - other140 m5 Very good29 Apr 2025
Gail's Bakery Woking GU21 6XRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good9 Dec 2025
Papa Johns GU21 6LETakeaway/sandwich shop150 m5 Very good25 Mar 2025

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.

395 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting155
Violence and sexual offences93
Anti-social behaviour41
Public order25
Criminal damage and arson21
Other theft20
Theft from the person7
Burglary6
Possession of weapons6
Vehicle crime5
Bicycle theft5
Other crime5
Robbery4
Drugs2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (227); On or near Supermarket (78); On or near Church Street West (37); On or near High Street (34); On or near Oaks Road (10).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 640 residents in 350 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 age3340
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over6%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)22%61%
Owned outright6%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented16%17%
Private rented62%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work74%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)6%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)39%32%
Travel to work by car or van26%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram11%4%
By any public transport, including bus14%8%
On foot or by bicycle19%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)72%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away15%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)49%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)72%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%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.

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.

  • GU21 6DB: 23 addresses of 29 in the postcode
  • GU21 6HT: 2 addresses of 53 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Church Street West · Goldsworth Road · Jubilee Square · Oaks Road · Butts Road · Commercial Way · Victoria Way · Victoria Way · The Peacocks Centre · The Broadway · Poole Road · Middle Walk

All the streets in GU21 and across Woking.

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.