Gosforth Close Reading, Wokingham

25 addresses across 2 postcodes (RG6), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 44700623.

44 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £380,000 across 1 sale. 12 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, C: 8, D: 3). 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 Wokingham costs £2,498 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Earley, about 1.0 km away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden, Maiden Erlegh Park, is about 210 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 50 to 55 m above sea level. 2 of its 25 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Brookside Group Practice, about 260 m away. About 240 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 73% of households owned their home and 46% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 20 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

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
20241£380,000£380,000£380,000
20211£271,000£271,000£271,000
20191£343,000£343,000£343,000
20172£334,000£318,000£350,000
20162£371,000£367,000£375,000
20154£275,000£250,000£287,000
20141£334,950£334,950£334,950
20133£215,000£207,000£226,000
20121£230,000£230,000£230,000
20111£232,000£232,000£232,000
20081£205,000£205,000£205,000
20071£249,950£249,950£249,950
Most recent sales (44)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
8 Nov 20247 RG6 3BPTerraced£380,000
11 Jan 202111 RG6 3BPTerraced£271,000
25 Mar 201919 RG6 3BPTerraced£343,000
11 Dec 201714 RG6 3BPDetached£350,000
2 Mar 20174 RG6 3BPTerraced£318,000
22 Apr 201615 RG6 3BPDetached£375,000
19 Feb 201612 RG6 3BPTerraced£367,000
21 Dec 201511 RG6 3BPTerraced£270,000
30 Oct 201520 RG6 3BPTerraced£280,000
2 Oct 20158 RG6 3BPTerraced£287,000
15 May 201523 RG6 3BPTerraced£250,000
22 Sep 201415 RG6 3BPDetached£334,950
18 Nov 201320 RG6 3BPTerraced£226,000
6 Sep 201317 RG6 3BPTerraced£207,000
1 Aug 20138 RG6 3BPTerraced£215,000
25 Jul 201214 RG6 3BPDetached£230,000
22 Jul 201119 RG6 3BPTerraced£232,000
20 Jun 200824 RG6 3BPTerraced£205,000
10 Aug 200712 RG6 3BPSemi-detached£249,950
29 Oct 200620 RG6 3BPTerraced£193,500
24 Mar 200616 RG6 3BPTerraced£215,000
18 Nov 20058 RG6 3BPTerraced£183,950
5 Jan 200524 RG6 3BPTerraced£165,000
31 Mar 200418 RG6 3BPSemi-detached£184,950
24 Oct 200319 RG6 3BPTerraced£179,000
11 Apr 20034 RG6 3BPTerraced£165,450
14 Nov 20025 RG6 3BPTerraced£154,950
16 Sep 200220 RG6 3BPTerraced£164,950
5 Nov 20018 RG6 3BPTerraced£137,000
19 Dec 200018 RG6 3BPSemi-detached£135,000
23 Dec 19998 RG6 3BPTerraced£111,950
25 Oct 199920 RG6 3BPTerraced£86,950
1 Oct 199923 RG6 3BPTerraced£99,950
10 Sep 199917 RG6 3BPFlat or maisonette£97,950
19 Jul 199918 RG6 3BPSemi-detached£19,300
4 Jun 199916 RG6 3BPTerraced£97,500
17 Mar 19984 RG6 3BPTerraced£86,500
1 Dec 19974 RG6 3BPTerraced£84,000
23 Nov 199715 RG6 3BPDetached£106,000
24 Oct 19978 RG6 3BPTerraced£78,500
28 Aug 199719 RG6 3BPTerraced£89,000
21 Jun 199616 RG6 3BPTerraced£73,000
30 Nov 19956 RG6 3BPTerraced£73,950
28 Apr 19955 RG6 3BPTerraced£62,750

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from April 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 65 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (7); House, detached (2); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1983-1990 (5); 1976-1982 (5); 1996-2002 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (6); owner-occupied (5).

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 (47% of about 660 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.

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

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.

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.

Height above sea level

The street's 25 addresses are between 50 m and 55 m above sea level (53 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 3BP100%100%100%0%
RG6 3BT100%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 2024–251.0 km
Winnersh Triangle 218,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km
Winnersh 384,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m, 43 within 800 m; nearest Sellafield Way Lower Earley150 m
Bus or coach stationReading Rail Station - buses4.9 km
Car parksSainsbury's Winnersh Car Park2.8 km
EV charging pointsSmart Charge Charging Station2.7 km
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR31.9 km

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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Brookside Group Practice260 m
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy460 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Gipsy Lane Advanced Dental Care460 m
HospitalRoyal Berkshire Hospital3.7 km
Police stationLoddon Valley Police Station800 m
Cash machinesLoddon Bridge Service Station, Earley1.1 km

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 garden5 within 800 m; nearest Maiden Erlegh Park 11 ha210 m
Play area7 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 870 m²410 m
Playing field4 within 800 m; nearest Laurel Park Recreation Ground 7.8 ha200 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 13 ha1.6 km

Within 800 m: 5 parks and gardens, 13 hectares in all.

Landmarks

2 listed buildings are within 1.0 km.

Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Old Lane CopseWood210 m north-west
Moor CopseWood290 m north-west
Maiden Erlegh LakeLake or reservoir660 m west
Temple IslandIsland3.0 km south-east
Nores HillHill3.0 km south-west
The CoombesValley3.9 km south-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)9.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)11.44015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5920
Under 552325

2 of the street's 25 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Loddon Primary SchoolPrimary2–11310 m No published inspection
Hawkedon Primary SchoolPrimary4–11690 m No published inspection
Maiden Erlegh SchoolSecondary11–18870 m Outstanding (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Aldryngton Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.0 km 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
Radstock Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.0 km Good (Jan 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Earley St Peter's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km 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
South Lake Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km 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
Whiteknights Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hillside Primary SchoolPrimary2–112.0 km No published inspection

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Lower Earley Baptist Church RG6 3HERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good23 May 2024
Funtastic Kids @ Loddon Primary School RG6 7LRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises310 m5 Very good6 May 2026
Impact Food Group @ Loddon Primary School RG6 7LRSchool/college/university430 m5 Very good1 Oct 2026
Maiden Place Social Club RG6 3HAPub/bar/nightclub450 m5 Very good12 Apr 2023
Rajmoni RG6 3HARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m3 Generally satisfactory19 May 2025
The Seven Red Roses RG6 3HDPub/bar/nightclub450 m5 Very good18 Jul 2025
Sainsbury's RG6 3HDRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets450 m5 Very good27 Aug 2024
Rustic Cafe RG6 3HDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m5 Very good7 Oct 2025
Ahuja Off Licence RG6 3HDRetailers - other450 m5 Very good8 Aug 2024
Kei's Peking Restaurant RG6 3HDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m3 Generally satisfactory27 May 2025
Idea Kitchen Holdings Ltd RG6 3HDTakeaway/sandwich shop490 m3 Generally satisfactory8 Aug 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.

20 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences11
Other theft2
Public order2
Anti-social behaviour1
Burglary1
Criminal damage and arson1
Vehicle crime1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bridport Close (6); On or near Swepstone Close (3); On or near Harrington Close (2); On or near Egremont Drive (2); On or near Allonby Close (2).

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: 243 residents in 110 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 age4340
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)73%61%
Owned outright26%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented26%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work69%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)44%32%
Travel to work by car or van47%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)46%34%
No qualifications6%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)81%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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.

Nearby streets

Sellafield Way · Harrington Close · Ravenglass Close · Egremont Drive · Mawbray Close · Allonby Close · Rushey Way · Bridport Close · Silver Brook Close · Swepstone Close · Brookside Close · Hillside 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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

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