Swans Ghyll Forest Row, Wealden

33 addresses across 2 postcodes (RH18), about 180 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 42700277.

  • Sales: 53 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £425,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 22 homes have an energy certificate (C: 7, D: 15).
  • Flood: 4 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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 Wealden costs £2,728 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 59% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is East Grinstead, about 4.6 km (2.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 520 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 61 to 66 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 7 of its 33 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ashdown Forest Health Centre, about 180 m away.
  • People: About 720 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 64% of households owned their home and 37% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 62 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
20251£425,000£425,000£425,000
20241£292,500£292,500£292,500
20221£600,000£600,000£600,000
20201£205,000£205,000£205,000
20182£372,500£365,000£380,000
20163£330,000£270,000£425,000
20142£231,500£178,000£285,000
20121£207,000£207,000£207,000
20091£290,000£290,000£290,000
20081£210,000£210,000£210,000
20072£287,500£275,000£300,000
20065£164,000£160,000£329,950
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 53)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Dec 20257 RH18 5PATerraced£215,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Jan 202515 RH18 5PASemi-detached£425,000
15 Mar 202415 RH18 5PASemi-detached£292,500
18 Nov 202212 RH18 5PADetached£600,000
31 Jul 202023 RH18 5PASemi-detached£205,000
11 Sep 201819 RH18 5PATerraced£380,000
1 Jun 201810 RH18 5PASemi-detached£365,000
12 Sep 201629 RH18 5PATerraced£270,000
29 Jul 201632 RH18 5PADetached£425,000
31 Mar 201627 RH18 5PADetached£350,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Jan 201610 RH18 5PASemi-detached£330,000
29 May 20146 RH18 5PATerraced£285,000
7 Mar 201423 RH18 5PASemi-detached£178,000
28 Sep 201210 RH18 5PASemi-detached£207,000
6 Nov 200926 RH18 5PATerraced£290,000
27 Nov 20088 RH18 5PASemi-detached£210,000
26 Jan 200712 RH18 5PADetached£300,000
5 Jan 20075 RH18 5PATerraced£275,000
29 Nov 20067 RH18 5PATerraced£164,000
3 Nov 20068 RH18 5PASemi-detached£163,000
30 Jun 200616 RH18 5PASemi-detached£329,950
30 Jun 200618 RH18 5PASemi-detached£249,000
30 Jun 200624 RH18 5PASemi-detached£160,000
4 Nov 20041 RH18 5PATerraced£151,500
9 Aug 200418 RH18 5PASemi-detached£223,000
4 Aug 20046 RH18 5PATerraced£245,000
24 Oct 20031 RH18 5PATerraced£137,500
28 Jun 20021 RH18 5PATerraced£122,500
13 Jul 20019 RH18 5PASemi-detached£140,811
27 Apr 20011 RH18 5PATerraced£93,000
17 Apr 200117 RH18 5PASemi-detached£219,950
20 Oct 200031 RH18 5PADetached£173,500
27 Oct 19997 RH18 5PATerraced£83,500
30 Jul 199921 RH18 5PAFlat or maisonette£95,000Leasehold.
14 Jun 199918 RH18 5PASemi-detached£121,500
30 Apr 199925 RH18 5PADetached£122,000
19 Mar 19993 RH18 5PADetached£117,500
8 Jan 199931 RH18 5PADetached£143,000
7 Jan 19995 RH18 5PATerraced£137,500
1 Dec 19981 RH18 5PATerraced£65,000
21 Aug 199817 RH18 5PASemi-detached£139,000
10 Aug 19982 RH18 5PATerraced£72,500
15 May 19988 RH18 5PASemi-detached£69,500
26 Nov 199728 RH18 5PATerraced£101,000
23 Jul 199731 RH18 5PADetached£123,000
22 Apr 199722 RH18 5PATerraced£106,500
1 Apr 199721 RH18 5PAFlat or maisonette£65,000Leasehold.
27 Mar 19971 RH18 5PATerraced£54,000
17 Mar 199723 RH18 5PATerraced£51,000
8 Jan 199716 RH18 5PASemi-detached£120,000

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 November 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

22 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 70 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (7); House, detached (6); House, mid-terrace (3). Built: 1991-1995 (9); 1983-1990 (9); 1976-1982 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11); rented (private) (6).

Council tax

What each band costs in Wealden in 2026-27: Band D £2,728 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,819£2,122£2,425£2,728£3,335£3,941£4,547£5,457

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (30% of about 1,070 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: 1.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 24 September 2026 to 25 September 2026: SOUTH EAST WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)

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, 4 at medium risk and 16 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 32 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 4 medium, 16 low and 0 very low.

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
RH18 5PAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 4 / 16 unlikely
RH18 5AFnot 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 33 addresses are between 61 m and 66 m above sea level (62 m on average); the ground rises about 5 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
RH18 5AF100%59%59%0%
RH18 5PA100%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 stationsEast Grinstead 1.1 million journeys in 2024–254.6 km (2.9 miles)
Dormans 123,000 journeys in 2024–256.9 km (4.3 miles)
Cowden (Kent) 48,000 journeys in 2024–258.4 km (5.2 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Brambletye Forest Row140 m
Bus or coach stationCowden - Crossroads7.6 km (4.7 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lower Road Car Park280 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW16.2 km (10 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ashdown Forest Health Centre180 m
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ashdown Pharmacy140 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Stone Cottage (Dental Surgery)140 m
HospitalQueen Victoria Hospital Cdc4.7 km (2.9 miles)
Police stationEast Grinstead Police Station4.3 km (2.7 miles)
Cash machinesEast Grinstead Station Cashzone4.6 km (2.9 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 Unnamed 7,910 m²520 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 360 m²370 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,700 m²320 m
AllotmentsWealden Allotments 1.1 ha870 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Ruins of Brambletye House, a listed building (Grade II*), 650 m (0.4 miles) west. 29 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Ruins of Brambletye HouseListed building, Grade II*650 m (0.4 miles) west
Brambletye HouseScheduled monument650 m (0.4 miles) west
Medieval moated site, Brambletye ManorScheduled monument810 m (0.5 miles) west
Stables to North of Kidbrooke ParkListed building, Grade II*900 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Kidbrooke Park Michael Hall Rudolf Steiner SchoolListed building, Grade II*940 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Kidbrooke ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
BrockhurstRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.8 km (1.7 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Alder WoodWood620 m (0.4 miles) west
Spanden WoodWood870 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Home WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
High WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Tanner's Hill PettHill2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-east
Weir Wood ReservoirLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.7 miles) west

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)6.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.34015

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, 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
60 to 6410
55 to 5960
Under 552633

7 of the street's 33 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 Wealden: see them on the Wealden 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
Forest Row Church of England Primary School and NurseryPrimary4–11670 m (0.4 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ashurst Wood Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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
Shearer's Fine Foods RH18 5EZRetailers - other140 m5 Very good13 Nov 2025
Chequers Inn RH18 5ESHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house150 m3 Generally satisfactory4 Jun 2026
Prosperity Restaurant RH18 5ESRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good23 Oct 2024
Emilio's Coffee RH18 5ESRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good4 Jun 2026
Ajo Il Corner Italiano RH18 5ESRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m4 Good3 Dec 2024
Java and Jazz RH18 5ESRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good31 Oct 2024
The Artisan Forest Kitchen RH18 5DNRetailers - other180 m5 Very good10 Sep 2026
Seasons Forest Kitchen RH18 5DNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good10 Sep 2026
Cyrnel Bakery Ltd RH18 5HEManufacturers/packers180 m4 Good3 Jun 2025
In Gear Cycle Sport RH18 5HDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good16 Sep 2020
Mobile Catering Unit Mobile caterer200 m5 Very good11 Dec 2024
Forest Row Community Fridge CIC Retailers - other200 m5 Very good22 Apr 2022
Hop Yard Brewing Co Pub/bar/nightclub210 m5 Very good27 Aug 2025
Yard Yoga Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good24 Jun 2021
The Yard Kitchen / Carli Bay RH18 5AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good7 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.

62 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences25
Other theft10
Anti-social behaviour10
Criminal damage and arson4
Shoplifting4
Burglary3
Vehicle crime2
Public order2
Drugs1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petrol Station (21); On or near Hillside (10); On or near Swans Ghyll (9); On or near Blenheim Fields (6); On or near Lewes Road (6).

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: 717 residents in 343 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 age4840
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)64%61%
Owned outright39%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented30%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)39%32%
Travel to work by car or van44%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)48%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away22%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)37%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 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.

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

Riverside · Hillside · Blenheim Fields · Lower Road · Gilham Lane · Kidbrooke Rise · Station Road · Highfields · Waterworks Close

All the streets in RH18 and across Wealden.

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.