Herstmonceux

What is it like to live in Herstmonceux?

Homes sold for a typical £300,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 5 of the 56 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 56 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 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Pevensey Bay, 8.2 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 Herstmonceux?

Homes in Herstmonceux sold for a typical £300,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 11 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £320,250 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 2 sales, too few to price
• Semi-detached £297,500 6 sales
• Terraced 3 sales, too few to price

Across the whole BN27 district, Herstmonceux's main postcode district: a typical £310,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Herstmonceux: 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 Herstmonceux?

None of the 56 postcodes now in use in Herstmonceux came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 28 homes sold in Herstmonceux were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BN27 district, 17%.

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 Herstmonceux?

Ofcom reports on 56 of the 56 postcodes in Herstmonceux. At 5 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

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 Herstmonceux at risk of flooding?

None of the 56 postcodes in Herstmonceux 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 Herstmonceux?

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

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Herstmonceux is Pevensey Bay Rail Station, 8.2 km away in a straight line.

• Pevensey Bay Rail Station Railway station 8.2 kmDrive
• Pevensey & Westham Rail Station Railway station 8.2 kmDrive
• Normans Bay Rail Station Railway station 8.6 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 Herstmonceux?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Herstmonceux. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Herstmonceux Integrative Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Requires improvement CQC report October 2025 · Phone 01323 833535 350 mWalk

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

Is Herstmonceux safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 95 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Herstmonceux 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: possession of weapons 2.

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 Herstmonceux?

District, borough or city council

Wealden

County council

East Sussex

Parliamentary constituency

Bexhill and Battle

Police force area

Sussex

Region

South East

Country

England

MP

Dr Kieran Mullan (Conservative)

All 56 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.