Cold Ash

What is it like to live in Cold Ash?

Homes sold for a typical £778,750 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 65 of the 72 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 73 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 2 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Thatcham Health Centre, 3.1 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Newbury Racecourse, 4.6 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Cold Ash?

Homes in Cold Ash sold for a typical £778,750 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 12 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £725,500 from 28 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.

• Detached £897,500 9 sales
• Semi-detached 2 sales, too few to price
• Terraced 1 sale, too few to price

Across the whole RG18 district, Cold Ash's main postcode district: a typical £395,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Cold Ash: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Cold Ash?

None of the 73 postcodes now in use in Cold Ash came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 28 homes sold in Cold Ash were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the RG18 district, 7%.

New homes among the homes sold

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Cold Ash?

Ofcom reports on 72 of the 73 postcodes in Cold Ash. At 65 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Cold Ash at risk of flooding?

None of the 73 postcodes in Cold Ash is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Cold Ash?

The open schools at the postcodes in Cold Ash. A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Cold Ash?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Cold Ash is Newbury Racecourse Rail Station, 4.6 km away in a straight line.

• Newbury Racecourse Rail Station Railway station 4.6 kmCycle
• Thatcham Rail Station Railway station 4.6 kmCycle
• Newbury Rail Station Railway station 5.3 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Cold Ash?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Cold Ash. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Thatcham Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01635 867171 3.1 kmCycle
• Burdwood Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2026 · Phone 01635 868006 4.3 kmCycle
• The Downland Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01635 248251 4.6 kmCycle

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Cold Ash safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 57 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Cold Ash over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: drugs 2, shoplifting 1, theft from the person 1.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Cold Ash?

Council

West Berkshire

Parliamentary constituency

Newbury

Police force area

Thames Valley

Region

South East

Country

England

MP

Mr Lee Dillon (Liberal Democrat)

All 73 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.