Your introduction to Earley, Lower Earley and its housing market data

Earley is made up of several smaller areas including Lower Earley and was recently named the 10th best place to live in the UK.

Properties are mainly 19th and 20th century terraced homes and you will also find 1940s to 1950s semi-detached properties. Popular with commuters Earley has its own train station which takes five minutes to Reading for services on to London Paddington and Waterloo.

Marks & Spencer and Asda are among the great choice of supermarkets and a host of local independent shops and services. Earley has 6 primary schools, Aldryngton, Earley St Peters, Hillside, Radstock, Whiteknights and Hawkedon, and Maiden Erlegh School, a coeducational secondary school.

Lower Earley was developed from the mid 1970s, through the 1980s and 1990s so has a wide range of contemporary homes from apartments to character detached homes and is situated to the south east of Reading. This former rural area became its own community in the late 70s when homes were built as a satelite district to next door Earley. Now popular with commuters, families and investors there is good local shopping, a large Asda store and sports facilities. Open spaces include Maiden Erlegh Lakes - a 10.2 hectare Local Nature Reserve.

Three mainline stations are within reach of Lower Earley - Winnersh Triangle, Earley and Winnersh - where Reading can be reached in minutes to pick up quick mainline trains to London, Bristol and south Wales. There is easy access to Reading and the M4.