Fernwood

What is it like to live in Fernwood?

Homes sold for a typical £246,250 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 69 of the 75 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 185 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 18 of its 75 postcodes. It has 1 secondary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Balderton Primary Care Centre, 1.3 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Newark North Gate, 4.3 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 Fernwood?

Homes in Fernwood sold for a typical £246,250 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 78 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £258,248 from 118 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £315,871 34 sales
• Semi-detached £245,000 19 sales
• Terraced £212,500 18 sales
• Flat or maisonette £110,000 7 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole NG24 district, Fernwood's main postcode district: a typical £218,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Fernwood: 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 Fernwood?

20 of the 75 postcodes now in use in Fernwood came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 32 of the 118 homes sold in Fernwood were newly built (27%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NG24 district, 16%.

The newest postcodes

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

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 Fernwood?

Ofcom reports on 75 of the 75 postcodes in Fernwood. At 69 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 Fernwood at risk of flooding?

18 of the 75 postcodes in Fernwood have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 185 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

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 Fernwood?

There is no primary school at the postcodes in Fernwood; these are the nearest to its middle. The secondary schools are at its postcodes. 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 Fernwood?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Fernwood is Newark North Gate Rail Station, 4.3 km away in a straight line.

• Newark North Gate Rail Station Railway station 4.3 kmCycle
• Newark Castle Rail Station Railway station 4.7 kmCycle
• Rolleston Rail Station Railway station 9.0 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 Fernwood?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Fernwood. 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.

• Balderton Primary Care Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 01636 705826 1.3 kmCycle
• Fountain Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01636 704378 3.7 kmCycle
• Barnby Gate Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01636 704225 3.9 kmCycle

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

Is Fernwood safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 594 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Fernwood 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: burglary 12, drugs 5, robbery 3, possession of weapons 3, bicycle theft 2, 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 Fernwood?

District, borough or city council

Newark and Sherwood

County council

Nottinghamshire

Parliamentary constituency

Newark

Police force area

Nottinghamshire

Region

East Midlands

Country

England

MP

Robert Jenrick (Reform UK)

All 75 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.