West Molesey

What is it like to live in West Molesey?

Homes sold for a typical £685,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 834 of the 991 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 1,608 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 450 of its 1,028 postcodes. It has 13 primary schools and 2 secondary schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Thames Ditton, 550 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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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 West Molesey?

Homes in West Molesey sold for a typical £685,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 521 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £680,000 from 713 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £1,167,795 124 sales
• Semi-detached £820,000 153 sales
• Terraced £592,250 112 sales
• Flat or maisonette £390,000 132 sales

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

Across the whole KT8 district, West Molesey's main postcode district: a typical £575,500.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in West Molesey: 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 West Molesey?

29 of the 1,028 postcodes now in use in West Molesey came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 30 of the 713 homes sold in West Molesey were newly built (4%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the KT8 district, 7%.

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 West Molesey?

Ofcom reports on 991 of the 1,028 postcodes in West Molesey. At 834 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 West Molesey at risk of flooding?

450 of the 1,028 postcodes in West Molesey 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 1,608 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 West Molesey?

The open schools at the postcodes in West Molesey (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). 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.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

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

How far is the station from West Molesey?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in West Molesey is Thames Ditton Rail Station, 550 m away in a straight line.

• Thames Ditton Rail Station Railway station 550 mWalk
• Esher Rail Station Railway station 1.0 kmWalk
• Hinchley Wood Rail Station Railway station 1.5 kmCycle

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 West Molesey?

The GP practices at the postcodes in West Molesey, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Glenlyn Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 020 8979 3253 1.3 kmCycle
• Thorkhill Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 020 8398 3141 1.4 kmCycle
• The Groves Hinchley Wood Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 020 8335 6600 1.5 kmCycle
• Vine Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 020 8979 1505 1.9 kmCycle
• Capelfield Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2026 · Phone 01372 462501 3.0 kmCycle

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

Is West Molesey safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 964 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in West Molesey 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: bicycle theft 19, drugs 17, other crime 12, possession of weapons 8, theft from the person 4, robbery 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 West Molesey?

Councils

Elmbridge (1,027) and Kingston upon Thames (1)

Parliamentary constituencies

Esher and Walton (1,027) and Kingston and Surbiton (1)

Police force areas

Surrey (1,027) and Metropolitan Police (1)

Regions

South East (1,027) and London (1)

Country

England

Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?

Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.